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The promises and realities of digital innovation have come to suffuse everything from city regions to astronomy, government to finance, art to medicine, politics to warfare, and from genetics to reality itself. Digital systems augmenting physical space, buildings, and communities occupy a special place in the evolutionary discourse about advanced technology. The two Intelligent Environments books edited by Peter Droege span a quarter of a century across this genre. The second volume, Intelligent Environments: Advanced Systems for a Healthy Planet, asks: how does civilization approach thinking systems, intelligent spatial models, design methods, and support structures designed for sustainability, in ways that could counteract challenges to terrestrial habitability?
This book examines a range of baseline and benchmark practices but also unusual and even sublime endeavors across regions, currencies, infrastructure, architecture, transactive electricity, geodesign, net-positive planning, remote work, integrated transport, and artificial intelligence in understanding the most immediate spatial setting: the human body. The result of this quest is both highly informative and useful, but also critical. It opens windows on what must fast become a central and overarching existential focus in the face of anthropogenic planetary heating and other threats-and raises concomitant questions about direction, scope, and speed of that change.
List of contents
1. Intelligent environments 2 - Advanced systems for a healthy planet Peter Droege 2. The Ruhr innovation ecosystem - From industrial brownfields to regenerative smart environments Anis Radzi 3. Triangulum: the three point project - findings from one of the first EU smart city projects Trinidad Fernandez, Sonja Stöffler and Catalina Diaz 4. Transactive electricity: how decentralized renewable power can create security, resilience and decarbonization Jemma Green, Peter William Geoffrey Newman and Peter Droege 5. Community inclusion currencies William O. Ruddick 6. Managing uncertainty/making miracles: understanding and strategizing for unpredictable outcomes in the implementation of intelligent government Keith Guzik and Gary T. Marx 7. Geodesign to address global change Carl Steinitz, Brian Orland, Tom Fisher and Michele Campagna 8. Massive smart-work deployment: opportunities and risks for resilient communities Marina Penna, Marco Rao, Bruna Felici and Roberta Roberto 9. Intelligent spatial technologies for gender inclusive urban environments Sophia German, Graciela Metternicht, Shawn Laffan and Scott Hawken 10. Toward an intelligent mobility regime Stephen Potter, James Warren, Miguel Valdez and Matthew Cook 11. Autonomous mobility in the built environment Nimish Biloria 12. Smart building and district retrofitting for intelligent urban environments Borragán Guillermo, Verheyen Jan, Vandevyvere Han and Kondratenko Irena 13. Scale matters: integrated decision support for sustainable built environments Ahmed Khoja 14. Ontologically streamlined data for building design and operation support Ardeshir Mahdavi and Dawid Wolosiuk 15. Digital city science - a platform methodology for sustainable urban development Jörg Rainer Noennig, Jan Barski, Katharina Borgmann and Jesus Lopez Baeza 16. A software tool for net-positive urban design and architecture Janis Birkeland 17. Strategies to improve energy efficiency in residential buildings on Ambon, Indonesia Abdelrahman M.H. Ammar and Dieter D. Genske 18. Transactive electricity markets: case study RENeW Nexus Jemma Green, Peter Newman and Nick Forse 19. The Insight Engine 2.0: the body and biomimetic systems as intelligent environments Bill Seaman, Quran Karriem, Dev Seth, Hojung Ashley Kwon and John Herr
About the author
Professor Droege directs the Liechtenstein Institute for Strategic Development, and is President, Eurosolar and General Chairman, World Council for Renewable Energy. He initiated the Chair for Sustainable Spatial Development at the University of Liechtenstein while holding a Conjoint Professorship at the Faculty of Engineering, University of Newcastle, Australia. An inaugural member of the Zayed Future Energy Prize jury and Expert Commissioner at the World Future Council he served on the Steering Committee of the Urban Climate Change Research Network at the Goddard Institute for Space Studies and CUNY. He taught and researched at MIT, held an Endowed Chair in Urban Engineering at at Tokyo University’s Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology, and Chair of Urban Design at Sydney University. He has authored/edited eight books.
