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Dr. Anthony Townsend is Research Director at the Institute for the Future, an independent research organization based in California's Silicon Valley, and Senior Research Fellow at New York University's Rudin Center for Transportation Policy and Management. His writing, public speaking and consulting focus on urbanization, ubiquitous computing and technology-led innovation and economic development. He lives and works in the New York City area. Anthony was named one of Planetizen's "Leading Thinkers in Urban Planning & Technology" and "Top 100 Thinkers" tracking the Internet of things by Postscapes.
My h-index - a measure of scholarly impact that measures citations of my research by others - as of November 2011 is 15. You can see the data behind this calculation here, or find more information about the h-index here.
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My Upcoming Book “Smart Cities” Now Available for Pre-Ordering on Amazon
Tuesday, March 19th, 2013It’s now open for pre-orders via W.W. Norton or Amazon! SMART CITIES: Big Data, Civic Hackers, and the Quest for a New Utopia Publication date: October 7, 2013 (pre-order now:
Keep Reading » 0Keynote at 2012 Code for America Summit
Friday, October 5th, 2012This was one of the most fun talks I’ve ever done.
Keep Reading » 0Quoted in China Daily Coverage of Smart City World Expo
Friday, December 2nd, 2011“”Urbanization of the planet will have finished by the end our children’s’ lifetime and will last forever. We only have one opportunity to do urban development properly. We can not afford to repeat the mistakes of the 20th century,” warned Anthony Townsend… full - Experts exchange views on planning the futureof cities
Keep Reading » 0What Is A Smart City? Interview with IESE Insight
Tuesday, November 15th, 2011A short video interview where I explain smart cities to a professor from the IESE, a business school based in Barcelona.
Keep Reading » 1BitCity Talk at Columbia University: “Mobility in the Bit City”
Wednesday, November 9th, 2011It was a day of talking about transit data, but I ended it by making some historical connections and then shifting the conversation to talk about wireless capacity as a limiting factor on the use of big data. The session starts at 1:32:00 with intros and such, my talk starts at around 1:32:00 Video
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My Article in Scientific American: “Social Nexus: Harnessing Residents’ Electronic Devices Will Yield Truly Smart Cities”
Tuesday, August 16th, 2011Carlo Ratti, Director of the MIT SenseABLE City Lab and I wrote this piece earlier this summer collaborating via Skype between New York, Boston, Milan, London, and Singapore. September 1, 2011 Scientific American Social Nexus: Harnessing Residents’ Electronic Devices Will Yield Truly Smart Cities
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NY Daily News Op-Ed: “How New York can become a genius magnet: The art of engineering a 21st century science center”
Sunday, July 31st, 2011I was inspired to chime in on Bloomberg’s ambitious effort to lure a new science campus to New York, in light of all the work I’ve done over the last few years looking at the future of science and technology parks. link: “How New York can become a genius magnet: The art of engineering a [...]
Keep Reading » 0“The Dream of the 90s: Broadband for All” Testimony at Portland, OR City Council Hearing on Broadband
Thursday, July 28th, 2011I want to start by reminding us how much hope there was in the 1990s for cities around broadband. The economic potential of “information superhighway” was just being realized. Even Homer Simpson had an Internet startup called “CompuGlobalHyperMegaNet”. Back then, cities thought they would play a dominant role in creating an affordable digital broadband infrastructure [...]
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Text of Talk at Brazil’s National Innovation Congress – Comments Welcome
Tuesday, July 19th, 2011Let me begin by thanking BNDES for inviting me to speak at this conference on behalf of the Institute for the Future, and for the many leaders of your country’s government and industry for being in attendance – [Listing of names] It’s an honor to be here in Brazil at this exciting point in your [...]
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