Rethinking smart cities / Zaheer Allam (chaire entrepreneuriat territoire innovation, IAE Paris - Sorbonne Business School, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, France) and Yusra Raisah Takun (Live+Smart Research Laboratory, School of Architecture and Built Environment, Deakin University, Australia).

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Allam, Zaheer, author.

Raisah Takun, Yusra, author.

Contributor:

Edward Elgar Publishing, publisher.

Series:

Rethinking urban and regional studies series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

City planning.

Sustainable development.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (180 pages)

Place of Publication:

Northampton : Edward Elgar publishing, 2022.

Summary:

"This innovative book explores the foundations of the Smart City and, through a critique of its challenges and concerns, showcases how to redefine the concept for increased sustainability, liveability and resilience in urban areas. It undertakes a review of the Smart City concept, providing a new perspective on how technology-based urban solutions must be centred around human dimensions to render more liveable urban fabrics. Chapters highlight how existing digital infrastructures can be coupled with emerging ones, so that they can provide increased efficiency and performance, with an ultimate objective of rendering safer, more sustainable, resilient and inclusive cities, aligning with the needs of the SDGs. The book also covers emerging technologies and concepts, such as 6G and the '15-Minute City', underlining how these can develop within Smart City frameworks This is an invigorating look into the concept of the Smart City and how it can be improved and rethought, making it useful for urban studies and human geography academics and researchers. It also offers helpful insights for policymakers and planners on how to increase the quality of life in modern cities"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Contents: Preface

1. What is a smart city? Understanding the concept beyond a tech-centric approach

2. The underlying and basic foundations of the smart city: Where do artificial intelligence, machine learning and other buzz words fit in the narrative?

3. Smart cities must be sustainable and inclusive cities

4. Smart cities as an urban regeneration avenue: Redefining the efficiency and performance of cities

5. The paradox of safety within data-driven smart cities

6. Enter 6g and the augmented smart city

7. The emergence of a new urban proximity-based morphology: The 15-minute city and the smart city

8. Future smart and autonomous cities: An overview towards future trends

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print record.

ISBN:

9781803926803 (e-book)

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.