Smart Cities Issues and Challenges

• Author : Anna Visvizi,Miltiadis Lytras
• Publisher : Elsevier
• Release : 18 June 2019

Smart Cities: Issues and Challenges: Mapping Political, Social and Economic Risks and Threats serves as a primer on smart cities, providing readers with no prior knowledge on smart cities with an understanding of the current smart cities debates. Gathering cutting-edge research and insights from academics, practitioners and policymakers around the globe, it identifies and discusses the nascent threats and challenges contemporary urban areas face, highlighting the drivers and ways of navigating these issues in an effective manner. Uniquely providing a

• Author : Negin Minaei
• Publisher : Unknown Publisher
• Release : 02 July 2022

Rethinking urban development strategies in the era of fourth industrial revolution / Camilla Ween -- The interaction between resilience and intelligence of cities / Parisa Kloss -- Urban food : sustainability and resilience in high-tech cities / Emma Burnnet -- Sustainable food : the role of digital agri-technology / Toby Mottram -- Is this architecture sustainable? Operational energy efficiency and the pursuit of behavioral change through building operation / Adam Jones and Negin Minaei -- City as an asset : algorithmic planning in sidewalk Toronto / Anna Artyushina --

• Author : Poonam Sharma,Swati Rajput
• Publisher : Springer
• Release : 27 March 2017

This book presents fundamental and applied research aimed at the development of smart cities across India. Based on the exploration of an extensive array of multidisciplinary literature, this book discusses critical factors of smart city initiatives: management and organization, technology, governance, policy, people and communities, economy, infrastructure, and natural environment. These factors are broadly covered under the integrative framework of the book to examine the vision and challenges of smart city initiatives. The book suggests directions and agendas for smart

• Author : John R. Vacca
• Publisher : Elsevier
• Release : 22 September 2020

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

• Author : Anna Visvizi,Raquel Perez del Hoyo
• Publisher : Elsevier
• Release : 07 May 2021

Smart Cities and the UN's SDGs explores how smart cities initiatives intersect with the global goal of making urbanization inclusive, resilient, and sustainable. Topics explored include digital governance, e-democracy, health care access, public-private partnerships, well-being, and more. Examining smart cities concepts, tools, strategies, and obstacles and their applicability to sustainability, the book exposes key structural problems that cities face and how the imperative of sustainability can bypass them. It shows how smart city technological innovation can boost citizens' well-being, serving

• Author : Leonidas Anthopoulos
• Publisher : Elsevier
• Release : 15 June 2019

Smart City Emergence: Cases from Around the World analyzes how smart cities are currently being conceptualized and implemented, examining the theoretical underpinnings and technologies that connect theory with tangible practice achievements. Using numerous cities from different regions around the globe, the book compares how smart cities of different sizes are evolving in different countries and continents. In addition, it examines the challenges cities face as they adopt the smart city concept, separating fact from fiction, with insights from scholars, government

• Author : Anna Visvizi,Raquel Perez del Hoyo
• Publisher : Elsevier
• Release : 27 April 2021

Smart Cities and the UN's SDGs explores how smart cities initiatives intersect with the global goal of making urbanization inclusive, resilient, and sustainable. Topics explored include digital governance, e-democracy, health care access, public-private partnerships, well-being, and more. Examining smart cities concepts, tools, strategies, and obstacles and their applicability to sustainability, the book exposes key structural problems that cities face and how the imperative of sustainability can bypass them. It shows how smart city technological innovation can boost citizens' well-being, serving

• Author : Benna, Umar G.
• Publisher : IGI Global
• Release : 19 February 2019

Recent global shifts in population have led to the fast urbanization of Africa. For Africa and the developing world, choosing the right policy strategies, processes, and tools are essential to turning urban centers into engines of industry and economic prosperity. Industrial and Urban Growth Policies at the Sub-National, National, and Global Levels is a pivotal reference source that examines current and evolving conditions of industrial and urban policies and their relationships around the world, especially between developed and developing economies.

• Author : Swarnalatha, P.,Prabu, S.
• Publisher : IGI Global
• Release : 18 February 2022

Blockchain technology has great potential to radically change our socio-economic systems by guaranteeing secure transactions between untrusted entities, reducing costs, and simplifying many processes. However, employing blockchain techniques in sustainable applications development for smart cities still has some technical challenges and limitations. Blockchain Technologies for Sustainable Development in Smart Cities investigates blockchain-enabled technology for smart city developments and big data applications. This book provides relevant theoretical frameworks and the latest empirical research findings in the area. Covering topics such as

• Author : Saravanan Krishnan,Valentina Emilia Balas,Julie Golden,Y. Harold Robinson,Raghvendra Kumar
• Publisher : Elsevier
• Release : 25 August 2021

Focusing on different tools, platforms, and techniques, Blockchain and the Smart City: Infrastructure and Implementation uses case studies from around the world to examine blockchain deployment in diverse smart city applications. The book begins by examining the fundamental theories and concepts of blockchain. It looks at key smart cities’ domains such as banking, insurance, healthcare, and supply chain management. It examines Using case studies for each domain, the book looks at payment mechanisms, fog/edge computing, green computing, and algorithms

• Author : Anna Visvizi
• Publisher : Springer Nature
• Release : 02 July 2022

• Author : Ben Green
• Publisher : MIT Press
• Release : 18 February 2020

Why technology is not an end in itself, and how cities can be “smart enough,” using technology to promote democracy and equity. Smart cities, where technology is used to solve every problem, are hailed as futuristic urban utopias. We are promised that apps, algorithms, and artificial intelligence will relieve congestion, restore democracy, prevent crime, and improve public services. In The Smart Enough City, Ben Green warns against seeing the city only through the lens of technology; taking an exclusively technical

• Author : Anna Visvizi,Orlando Troisi
• Publisher : Springer Nature
• Release : 02 July 2022

This book adopts the managerial perspective to the study of smart cities. As such, this book is a necessary addition to the existing body of literature on smart cities. The chapters included in this book prove the case that transformation of cities to smart cities is a function of effective and efficient management practices implemented at diverse levels of smart cities. While advances in information and communication technology (ICT) are crucial, it is the ability to apply ICT consciously and

• Author : Krishna Kumar,Gaurav Saini,Duc Manh Nguyen,Narendra Kumar,Rachna Shah
• Publisher : CRC Press
• Release : 04 May 2022

This book discusses the various aspects of smart cities and their architecture along with the application of the latest technologies, including the Internet of Things (IoT) and artificial intelligence (AI). The concept of smart cities, their development, technological advancements, and issues related to them are discussed in detail. Smart Cities: Concepts, Practices, and Applications covers numerous topics, including energy utilities and the role of renewable energy for sustainable development, intelligent transport systems, traffic management, sewage and waste management, the impact

• Author : Zaigham Mahmood
• Publisher : Springer
• Release : 13 April 2018

This invaluable text/reference investigates the state of the art in approaches to building, monitoring, managing, and governing smart cities. A particular focus is placed on the distributed computing environments within the infrastructure of such cities, including issues of device connectivity, communication, security, and interoperability. A selection of experts of international repute offer their perspectives on current trends and best practices, and their suggestions for future developments, together with case studies supporting the vision of smart cities based on the