ABSTRACT
The Bottom-up Technology City is highly mobile, adaptive, analytical, and reacts to the needs of the citizens by forming alliances that allow for innovation outside formal governmental channels. The new technology city might be more bottom-up than what we see in places like Rio, Songdo, and Masdar as many cities across the country are taking cues from the popularization of "Do it Yourself" (DIY) culture, movement and are encouraging their tech community to use their programming prowess to help develop new technological innovation. Code for America, one of the earliest non-profits advocating for technology change in government, best illustrates the mission of using Civic Hacking to transform the modern city. Users in New Haven, Connecticut, for instance, created a community advocacy group called the Downtown-Wooster Square Management Team after reading each other's messages on the SeeClickFix website and realizing that they had common problems and interests.
