Solving Urban Infrastructure Problems Using Smart City Technologies

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Solving Urban Infrastructure Problems Using Smart City Technologies

Handbook on Planning, Design, Development, and Regulation

Regional and area planning Urban and municipal planning and policy

Author: John Vacca

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Language: English

Published by: Elsevier

Published on: 22nd September 2020

Format: LCP-protected ePub

Size: 22 Mb

ISBN: 9780128168172


Solving Urban Infrastructure Problems Using Smart City Technologies

is the most complete guide for integrating next generation smart city technologies into the very foundation of urban areas worldwide, showing how to make urban areas more efficient, more sustainable, and safer.

Smart cities are complex systems of systems that encompass all aspects of modern urban life. A key component of their success is creating an ecosystem of smart infrastructures that can work together to enable dynamic, real-time interactions between urban subsystems such as transportation, energy, healthcare, housing, food, entertainment, work, social interactions, and governance.

Solving Urban Infrastructure Problems Using Smart City Technologies is a complete reference for building a holistic, system-level perspective on smart and sustainable cities, leveraging big data analytics and strategies for planning, zoning, and public policy. It offers in-depth coverage and practical solutions for how smart cities can utilize residents' intellectual and social capital, promote environmental sustainability, increase personalization, mobility, and higher quality of life.

Brings together experts from academia, government and industry to offer state-of-the-art solutions for urban system problems, showing how smart technologies can be used to improve the lives of the billions of people living in cities across the globe.

Demonstrates practical implementation solutions through real-life case studies.

Enhances reader comprehension with learning aids such as hands-on exercises, questions and answers, checklists, chapter summaries, chapter review questions, exercise problems, and more.

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