Cities / Too much "smart" can make you dumb

Richard Sennett's new book, Buildings and Dwellings, has a new variety of ambivalence about so-called "smart cities." It's one I hadn't heard.

From the Los Angeles Review of Books' review:

Referring to smart cities that use technology to dictate city life and surveil citizens, he warns, "By using machines, people would stop learning. They would become stu…