Building smart cities | Saskia Sassen

Can a city hack technology? What happens when that technology becomes obsolete? In this sharp talk, sociologist Saskia Sassen discusses how cities can reinvent themselves and cultivate open-source urbanism, where our habits inform our space.
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Filmed at TED2013.
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