Brooklane

I’ve reblogged this here — since this Tumblr site has the Disqus commenting system enabled at the bottom of the page— to give Adam Greenfield a place to respond.

he wrote —

I’d just like to know how you expect to have a “conversation” about cities if you don’t permit people without Tumblrs to comment on your posts. If you want to take a snarky swipe at me or the things you think I’ve said, I don’t mind in the slightest…but it’s not particularly sporting if I can’t respond. AG

smartercities:

As an IBMer working on Smarter Cities — and a New Yorker for much of my adult life — I’d like to observe that Adam Greenfield doesn’t know me, my motivations, or those of the thousands of colleagues who are dedicated their lives and careers towards the goal of enabling cities, and urban citizens, to become smarter.

remagine:

Adam Greenfield makes an important and interesting point at Picnic 2011: the institutions (IBM, Cisco, Siemens, etc) developing “smart cities”, as we know the term, “do not have a sense of urbanism”, ” probably do not love the places they are developing for “, “probably have not thought of the idea of love and the idea of a city, and how these things might relate to one another”: these are the things that “make cities valuable”.

via humanscalecities:

So where do we find ourselves, after a solid decade of smart city rhetoric? What was promised to us, what has been delivered, what were the results, and what remains possible?