“That's not a utopian vision. It is a set of ideas that we think are important to discuss. Those ideas largely have to do with sustainability of cities. The ability of cities to, over time, remain in balance with the resource streams that are available to them, and they have to do with social justice and equity of the fundamental conditions of satisfactory citizenship.” ThinkingImportantIdeasSocialJusticeAbilityCitiesVisionConditionsBalanceResourcesSocial JusticeFundamentalsAvailableStreamsSustainabilityCitizenshipEquityUtopian Author:William J. Mitchell
“We [MIT Smart Cities research group] try to identify the fundamental underlying design assumptions that everybody takes as a sort of given and unchallengeable when you think about solving these problems. And we try to challenge those assumptions.” ThinkingTryingProblemGivenChallengesCitiesGroupsDesignSmartResearchFundamentalsAssumptionMit Author:William J. Mitchell
“American cities are kind of difficult contexts to work in. They are politically complex. There are a lot of different interest groups. It takes immense political skill to get anything done at all.” KindDifferentDonePoliticalDifficultInterestCitiesGroupsSkillsComplexesImmenseInterest GroupsAmerican Cities Author:William J. Mitchell
