Smart Cities & Infrastructure Books

A City Is Not a Computer
by Shannon Mattern
Review
Freeing Energy
by Bill Nussey
Review
Atlas of the Invisible
by James Cheshire and Oliver Uberti
Review
People Count
by Susan Landau
Review
The Perfect Police State
by Geoffrey Cain
Review
Holding Back the River
by Tyler J. Kelley
Review
Metropolis
by Ben Wilson
Review
Lights Out
by Thomas Gryta and Ted Mann
Review
Healthy Buildings
by John D. Macomber, Joseph G. Allen
Review
Dark Mirror: Edward Snowden and the Surveillance State
by Barton Gellman
Review
The Future Is Faster Than You Think
by Peter H. Diamandis and Steven Kotler
Review
Smarter Homes: How Technology Will Change Your Home Life
by Alexandra Deschamps-Sonsino
Review
Fire Doesn’t Innovate
by Kip Boyle
Review
Eyes in the Sky: The Secret Rise of Gorgon Stare and How It Will Watch Us All
by Arthur Holland Michel
Review
Order without Design: How Markets Shape Cities
by Alain Bertaud
Review
The Smart Enough City: Putting Technology in its Place to Reclaim Our Urban Future
by Ben Green
Review
Life After Carbon: The Next Global Transformation of Cities
by Peter Plastrik and John Cleveland
Review
We Have Been Harmonised: Life in China’s Surveillance State
by Kai Strittmatter
Review
Make, Think, Imagine: Engineering the Future of Civilisation
by John Browne
Energy at the End of the World: An Orkney Islands Saga
by Laura Watts
Review
Smart Sustainable Cities of the Future: The Untapped Potential of Big Data Analytics and Context–Aware Computing for Advancing Sustainability (The Urban Book Series)
by Simon Elias Bibri
Review
No One at the Wheel: Driverless Cars and the Road of the Future
by Samuel I. Schwartz and Karen Kelly
Review
Smart Cities: Foundations, Principles, and Applications
by Houbing Song, Ravi Srinivasan, Tamim Sookoor, and Sabina Jeschke
Review
Palaces for the People: How To Build a More Equal and United Society
by Eric Klinenberg
Review
The Poisoned City: Flint’s Water and the American Urban Tragedy
by Anna Clark
Review
For the Love of Trains: A Celebration of the World’s Railways
by Ray Hamilton
Review
Transmaterial Next: A Catalog of Materials That Will Redefine Our Future
by Blaine Brownell
Review
Man of Iron: Thomas Telford and the Building of Britain
by Julian Glover
Review
The Car Hacking Handbook: A Guide for the Penetration Tester
by Craig Smith
Review
The Rise of the Robots: Technology and the Threat of Mass Unemployment
by Martin Ford
Review
Shareology: Using The Study Of Sharing To Power Human Business
by Bryan J Kramer
Review
Open Source Architecture
by Carlo Ratti and Matthew Claudel
Review
Street Smart
by Samuel I. Schwartz and William Rosen
Review

Articles

Pearson plans to sell its textbooks as NFTs
Women are better at statistics than they think
Why is tech giant Apple trying to teach our teachers?
PhD students don’t need second jobs – they need paying above minimum wage
6 ways to keep kids’ school skills sharp over the summer
Improving science literacy means changing science education
Four major challenges facing Britain’s education system after the pandemic
How Engineering Education Can Change To Meet The Industry’s Needs
Sats results: Standards slip in Year 6 tests
7 Video Games To Brush Up On Your Civil Engineering Skills
‘We are not in this alone’: stressed teachers find hope in peer-support model used by frontline health workers
Only about 1 in 5 engineering degrees go to women
Could more online learning help fix Australia’s teacher shortage?
Teacher burnout hits record high
Girls Just Wanna Have STEM!
English schools warn of acute teacher shortages without ‘inflation plus’ pay deal
Times Education Commission adds to calls for new baccalaureate
Online and in-person exams both have problems – that’s now clear. Unis have a window of opportunity to do better
Girls do like hard maths, says children’s commissioner for England
DfE widens the net with new QTS recognition service
The employment skills Ofsted look for – and why maths teachers should talk to careers advisers…
Unrecognised excellence: Teaching-focused staff contribute to REF results too
Carving a path for Pakistani children to pursue science careers
It’s not helpful to talk about children’s ‘learning loss’ during lockdown – they and their parents learned a great deal
Science teacher’s incredible rapping lessons help students revise for GCSEs
COMPETITION: YES22
Primary school children get little academic benefit from homework
£3k teachers retention bonuses: how they will work
Ofqual to explore online testing for exams
Exam stress: how to help children cope with GCSEs and A-levels
COMPETITION: New Civil Engineer Graduate & Apprentice Awards 2022
COMPETITION: Call for Code 2022
Instead of obsessing over learning facts, let’s teach children how to think
Online lockdown outdoor science lessons boosted teachers’ skills, study shows
Biology with Tibetan Buddhist monks: What I’m taking back to my college classroom from teaching at a monastery
COMPETITION: Copernicus Masters 2022
UK graduate jobs outnumbered graduates by 1m in 2020, study shows
Four reasons you should consider adult education – even if you’re at the start of your career
Covid: Ofsted warning over supply and catch-up tutor shortage
England’s planned school reform is just more of the same – innovation expert proposes radical alternative
Experiments show efficient strategies evolve better over generations when people have a choice of a better teacher
COMPETITION: E&T Innovation Awards 2022
COMPETITION: Times Higher Education Awards 2022
COMPETITION: Josh Award 2022
How to find a suitable PhD supervisor
Learning gains while we sleep originate from the learning process itself and not just from using the brain
Teacher targets for popular subjects set to be missed as recruitment challenges ‘re-emerge’
Study points to strategies for closing the participation gender gap in engineering courses
COMPETITION: COINS Grand Challenge 2022
The use of videos in teaching could improve academic performance by 20%