
Smart Cities for Technological and Social Innovation
Case Studies, Current Trends, and Future Steps
Description
Key Features
- Cases from a range of geographies, scales, social and economic contexts
- Explores how smart cities can promote technological and social innovation in terms of direct impacts on livability, productivity and sustainability
- Establishes an integrative framework based on empirical evidence to develop more innovative smart city initiatives
- Investigates the role of governments in coordinating, fostering and guiding innovations resulting from smart city developments
- Interrogates the policies and governance structures which have been effective in supporting the development and deployment of smart cities
Readership
Researchers and professionals involved in urban planning, smart city development, city operations etc. Local and state decision makers, universities. Broadly, urban planners and urban researchers like: architectural engineers, computer scientists, government policy makers, private and public technology companies. Policy makers, city managers, and urban planners; graduate students, upper level undergraduates and researchers
Table of Contents
1. Introduction: being smarter for productivity, livability and sustainability
2. Fundamentals of smart cities: Governance, innovations and cities
3. Smart city in Singapore: How Environmental and Geospatial Innovation lead to urban livability and environmental sustainability cities
5. Japanese Smart Cities
6. ‘Being First Comes Naturally’: The Smart City and Progressive Urbanism in Australia
7. Understanding the Stakeholders’ Perceptions in Smart Cities: The Experience of Using Q Methodology for Smart Gusu Project, China
8. Stimulating Innovation for Smart Cities in Hong Kong
9. Urban form, the use of ICT and informal smart cities in Vietnam
10. Smart urban development strategies in Africa? An analysis of multiple rationalities for Accra’s City Extension Project
11. Smart Dubai IoT Strategy: Aspiration to promoting happiness for residents and visitors through a continuous commitment to innovation
12. Governing security by coding: a case of "smartness" in the Chilean context
13. Smart City Technologies in the USA: Smart Grid and Transportation Initiatives in Columbus, Ohio
14. Building the Future City of Glasgow: An evolutionary perspective
15. Autonomous Vehicles and Smart Cities: Where We Are
16. Evaluating recent trends: Diversified development paths of smart cities
17. Conclusion: steps for future smart cities
Product details
- No. of pages: 332
- Language: English
- Copyright: © Academic Press 2020
- Published: September 21, 2020
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Paperback ISBN: 9780128188866
- eBook ISBN: 9780128188873
About the Editors
Hyung Min Kim
Affiliations and Expertise
Soheil Sabri
Affiliations and Expertise
Anthony Kent
Affiliations and Expertise
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