From Intelligent to Smart Cities

Informationen zum Autor Mark Deakin is Professor of Built Environment at Edinburgh Napier University, UK. Husam Al Waer is Lecturer in Sustainable Architecture and Urban Development at the University of Dundee, UK. Klappentext The concept of smart cities offers a revolutionary vision of urban design for sustainability. Utilising the intelligent application of new technologies! smart cities also incorporate considerations of social and environmental capital in order to transform the life and work of cities. Zusammenfassung This book discusses the definitional components, critical insights and institutional means by which urban planners can achieve cities that capture social and environmental capital. The volume analyzes the experiences of cities in the USA, Canada and Europe. It was published as a special issue of Intelligent Buildings International. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. From Intelligent to Smart Cities 3. The Smart City: A Nexus for Open Innovation? 4. Intelligent Cities: Variable Geometries of Spatial Intelligence 5. The Embedded Intelligence of Smart Cities 6. Smart Cities, Smart Places, Smart Democracy: Form-Based Codes, Electronic Governance and the Role of Place in Making Smart Cities

Product details

• Authors: Mark (Napier University Deakin
• Assisted by: HUSAM AL WAER (Editor), Al Waer Husam (Editor), Mark Deakin (Editor), Deakin Mark (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 05.07.2012
• EAN: 9781849713894
• ISBN: 978-1-84971-389-4
• No. of pages: 96
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Urban, spatial and country planning; Architecture, ARCHITECTURE / Landscape, The arts: general issues, ARCHITECTURE / Urban & Land Use Planning, Urban & municipal planning, Industrial / commercial art & design, Interdisciplinary studies, Building construction & materials, Urban and municipal planning and policy, Design, Industrial and commercial arts, illustration, Building construction and materials, The arts: general topics