GIS for Cities: Harnessing Geospatial Technology for Urban Development

GIS for Cities: Harnessing Geospatial Technology for Urban Development
Author: Dr Aran Castro A J
Publisher: Dr Aran Castro
Total Pages: 129
Release: 2024-08-11
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN:

GIS for Cities: Harnessing Geospatial Technology for Urban Development by Dr. Aran Castro A J is a comprehensive guide that explores the transformative power of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) in urban planning and development. This book delves into the essential role that GIS plays in creating smarter, more sustainable cities, offering valuable insights into how geospatial technology can be leveraged to address the complex challenges of modern urbanization. From the basics of spatial data collection and management to advanced topics like smart cities, urban health, and community engagement, this book provides a thorough overview of the applications of GIS in urban environments. Through detailed explanations, real-world case studies, and practical examples, readers will gain a deep understanding of how GIS can be used to improve infrastructure, enhance public services, and foster more resilient urban communities. Whether you are a student, urban planner, researcher, or GIS professional, this book offers the knowledge and tools needed to effectively integrate GIS into urban planning processes. With a focus on practical applications and future trends, GIS for Cities is an indispensable resource for anyone interested in the intersection of technology and urban development. Key Features: Comprehensive coverage of GIS applications in urban planning and development In-depth exploration of advanced GIS technologies, including 3D GIS, real-time data integration, and digital twins Case studies from cities around the world, illustrating the practical use of GIS in addressing urban challenges Practical insights into the role of GIS in smart cities, environmental sustainability, and public safety Accessible and informative, suitable for both beginners and experienced GIS practitioners

Creative Urban Regions: Harnessing Urban Technologies to Support Knowledge City Initiatives

Creative Urban Regions: Harnessing Urban Technologies to Support Knowledge City Initiatives
Author: Yigitcanlar, Tan
Publisher: IGI Global
Total Pages: 390
Release: 2008-02-28
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 1599048418

Explores the utilization of urban technology to support knowledge city initiatives, providing fundamental techniques and processes for the successful integration of information technologies and urban production. Presents research on a multitude of cutting-edge urban information communication technology issues.

Handbook of Research on Sustainable Development Goals, Climate Change, and Digitalization

Handbook of Research on Sustainable Development Goals, Climate Change, and Digitalization
Author: Castanho, Rui Alexandre
Publisher: IGI Global
Total Pages: 684
Release: 2021-11-12
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1799884848

In recent years, the world has been changing considerably. Within the many obstacles, barriers, and opportunities, three significant challenges should be considered for the future planning of our territories and cities: seeking to achieve Sustainable Development Goals (SDG), facing climate change, and performing a shift towards digitalization. Considering these three challenges, we can work toward a more sustainable future for the environment. The Handbook of Research on Sustainable Development Goals, Climate Change, and Digitalization elaborates on sustainability issues in the planning and development field regarding the environment. This text promotes understanding about the dynamics, challenges, and opportunities for the new decade regarding our common future planning. Covering topics such as circular economy, economic-ecological principles, and sustainable resilience, this book is essential for academicians, researchers, policymakers, environmentalists, scientists, technicians, decision makers, practitioners, and students.

Energy Informatics

Energy Informatics
Author: Bo Nørregaard Jørgensen
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 389
Release:
Genre:
ISBN: 3031747380

Prolyfe

Prolyfe
Author: Prolyfis Consultancy Works
Publisher: Prolyfis Consultancy Works
Total Pages: 17
Release: 2015-04-01
Genre:
ISBN:

Special Women's day issue, Highlights few of the powerful women in the management industry.

Smart Sustainable Cities of the Future

Smart Sustainable Cities of the Future
Author: Simon Elias Bibri
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 685
Release: 2018-02-24
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 3319739816

This book is intended to help explore the field of smart sustainable cities in its complexity, heterogeneity, and breadth, the many faces of a topical subject of major importance for the future that encompasses so much of modern urban life in an increasingly computerized and urbanized world. Indeed, sustainable urban development is currently at the center of debate in light of several ICT visions becoming achievable and deployable computing paradigms, and shaping the way cities will evolve in the future and thus tackle complex challenges. This book integrates computer science, data science, complexity science, sustainability science, system thinking, and urban planning and design. As such, it contains innovative computer–based and data–analytic research on smart sustainable cities as complex and dynamic systems. It provides applied theoretical contributions fostering a better understanding of such systems and the synergistic relationships between the underlying physical and informational landscapes. It offers contributions pertaining to the ongoing development of computer–based and data science technologies for the processing, analysis, management, modeling, and simulation of big and context data and the associated applicability to urban systems that will advance different aspects of sustainability. This book seeks to explicitly bring together the smart city and sustainable city endeavors, and to focus on big data analytics and context-aware computing specifically. In doing so, it amalgamates the design concepts and planning principles of sustainable urban forms with the novel applications of ICT of ubiquitous computing to primarily advance sustainability. Its strength lies in combining big data and context–aware technologies and their novel applications for the sheer purpose of harnessing and leveraging the disruptive and synergetic effects of ICT on forms of city planning that are required for future forms of sustainable development. This is because the effects of such technologies reinforce one another as to their efforts for transforming urban life in a sustainable way by integrating data–centric and context–aware solutions for enhancing urban systems and facilitating coordination among urban domains. This timely and comprehensive book is aimed at a wide audience across science, academia industry, and policymaking. It provides the necessary material to inform relevant research communities of the state–of–the–art research and the latest development in the area of smart sustainable urban development, as well as a valuable reference for planners, designers, strategists, and ICT experts who are working towards the development and implementation of smart sustainable cities based on big data analytics and context–aware computing.

Geospatial Technology and Smart Cities

Geospatial Technology and Smart Cities
Author: Poonam Sharma
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 497
Release: 2021-07-06
Genre: Science
ISBN: 3030719456

This book presents fundamental and applied research in developing geospatial modeling solutions to manage the challenges that urban areas are facing today. It aims to connect the academics, researchers, experts, town planners, investors and government officials to exchange ideas. The areas addressed include urban heat island analysis, urban flood vulnerability and risk mapping, green spaces, solar energy, infrastructure management, among others. The book suggests directions for smart city research and outlines practical propositions. As an emerging and critical area of research and development, much research is now being done with regard to cities. At the international level and in India alike, the “smart cities” concept is a vital topic for universities and research centers, and well as for civic bodies, town planners and policymakers. As such, the book offers a valuable resource for a broad readership.

Sustainable Development of Smart Cities Infrastructure (SDSCI-2023) (Volume-2)

Sustainable Development of Smart Cities Infrastructure (SDSCI-2023) (Volume-2)
Author: H.K. Sharma
Publisher: Allied Publishers
Total Pages: 390
Release: 2023-06-10
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9390951658

Sustainable development of smart cities infrastructures is of paramount importance and need to be planned, designed, constructed, operated and de-commissioned in a manner that ensures economic, social, environmental and institutional sustainability over the entire infrastructure life cycle. Smart cities infrastructure however be cost effective, disaster resilient, environmentally friendly, conserving natural resources, and sustainable ensuring faster delivery of quality and durable structures which include roads, building, bridges, energy and water infrastructures. Government of India is going to encourage Public Private Partnership (PPP) as an alternate option to build most of the infrastructures, which can be useful both for green-field as well as brown-field smart cities projects. The present book is a collection of contributed research and review papers presented at the ‘National Conference on Sustainable Development of Smart Cities Infrastructure’ (SDSCI-2023) held at National Institute of Technology, Kurukshetra in May 2023.The subject matter is grouped into nine sessions which include research articles pertaining to sustainable development of smart cities, urban and rural planning, transportation, built environment and management, sustainable and smart technologies, materials, construction and maintenance, advance modelling, characterization of structures, energy and environment, performance of smart cities infrastructure under extreme loading conditions, green buildings, structural health monitoring, and ICT in smart cities, data mining and machine learning for sustainable infrastructure, GIS and remote sensing, future trends and prospects of smart cities, innovative technologies, building energy and efficiency and sobriety, and sustainable resilience to natural and man-made disasters, and smart materials, etc. The book would be a valuable reference for researchers, students, structural designers, site engineers, and all related engineers involved in the field of sustainable development of smart cities infrastructure.