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remember this quote the next time you read the phrase: ‘Smart Cities’

Posted on 2015/02/23 - 2015/02/23 by jd

‘…There are only two ways to keep people out of any space – prices and policing. In other words, the prices will automatically be higher in such cities – the notion that they will be low cost is flawed. Even if possible from a cost provision perspective, they cannot be low cost from a demand supply perspective.

Even with high prices, the conventional laws in India will not enable us to exclude millions of poor Indians from enjoying the privileges of such great infrastructure. Hence the police will need to physically exclude people from such cities, and they will need a different set of laws from those operating in the rest of India for them to be able to do so. Creating special enclaves is the only method of doing so….’
via Smart cities or cleverly-disguised corporate colonies? – Intellectual Anarchy!.

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