Sinica Podcast cover image

Xiong'an: Techno-natural utopia or authoritarian folly?

Sinica Podcast

00:00

The Future of Urban Planning

The smart city is one of these concepts in urban planning that just sort of won't go away, but no one can ever really sure exactly what it means. I think the general idea actually comes from this, if you want to go even further back into the history of cybernetics and the idea of regulating complex systems. So there's something of control and managing integrating lots of different systems into control. But again, some of this has been really fallen out of favor, I would say, in the urban planning field in the US.

Transcript
Play full episode

The AI-powered Podcast Player

Save insights by tapping your headphones, chat with episodes, discover the best highlights - and more!
App store bannerPlay store banner
Get the app