{"id":6656,"date":"2016-05-06T05:50:35","date_gmt":"2016-05-06T05:50:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/?p=6656"},"modified":"2016-05-06T05:50:51","modified_gmt":"2016-05-06T05:50:51","slug":"sharing-cities-a-case-for-being-truly-smart-and-sustainable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2016\/05\/06\/sharing-cities-a-case-for-being-truly-smart-and-sustainable\/","title":{"rendered":"Sharing Cities: a case for being truly smart and sustainable"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Tuesday 10 May, <a href=\"http:\/\/julianagyeman.com\">Julian Agyeman<\/a>, from Tufts University in the USA, will be speaking at the Watershed in Bristol on: <em>Sharing Cities. \u00a0<\/em>He'll\u00a0be exploring his latest <a href=\"http:\/\/julianagyeman.com\/books\/sharing-cities\/overview\/\">book<\/a>, explaining\u00a0how the concept of sharing offers cities the opportunity to connect smart technology to justice, solidarity and sustainability, and discussing how we can deliver a better quality of life and a healthier environment in Bristol. \u00a0 It sounds like a great\u00a0night out, and I'm looking forward to it. \u00a0More details <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ideasfestival.co.uk\/events\/julian-agyeman\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The last time I heard Agyeman\u00a0speak was in Boston, more than a decade ago, and he apologised for slavery on behalf of\u00a0the UK (or it might have been England). \u00a0I thought this rather presumptuous. \u00a0I expect, this time around, he'll be expecting the staunchly progressive Bristolians from <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2011\/04\/26\/i-being-born-a-sinner-and-distressed\/\">Stokes Croft<\/a> to do the same. \u00a0It might\u00a0be a riotous night.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Tuesday 10 May, Julian Agyeman, from Tufts University in the USA, will be speaking at the Watershed in Bristol on: Sharing Cities. \u00a0He'll\u00a0be exploring his latest book, explaining\u00a0how the concept of sharing offers cities the opportunity to connect smart...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":237,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comment","category-talks-and-presentations"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/237"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6656"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6656\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}