Description
Book SynopsisThis book reviews the structure, applications, technologies, governance, environmental sustainability, smart communities, gender space and other issues related to smart cities. The book is divided into four parts. The first one entails the conceptual background, growth and development. The second part presents diverse issues on smart cities in terms of environmental sustainability, the role of the community, and gender space, among others. The third part revolves around economic and technological issues, and the fourth is a compilation of case studies in connection with smart cities. This collection of diverse issues from different locations presents a holistic view of smart cities contributed by authors who have undertaken research projects and implemented their own unique perspectives and methods. A variety of innovative concepts such as digital governance, polycentric structures, geodata repositories, geoweb services and advanced geospatial technologies in smart city planning, urban microclimatic parameters, and urban heat islands provide invaluable knowledge for researchers and practitioners in these fields.
Table of ContentsChapter 1: Smart Cities for Sustainable Development : An Introduction
Part 1: Smart Cities: Conceptual Background, Growth and Development
Chapter 2: Monocentric City Plans to Polycentric Structures
Chapter 3: Intelligent Communities - Towards a New Ontology of Practice
Chapter 4: Digital Governance for Smart City and Future Community Construction: From Concept to Application
Chapter 5: Smart cities or Smart People: The Role of Stakeholders to Achieve Integrative Vision
Chapter 6: Smart City Initiatives in Japan: Their Achievements and Remaining Issues
Part 2: Smart Cities: A Dimensional Look
Chapter 7: Smart Cities and Urban Deprived Communities: A Reflection on the Need to Re-think
Chapter 8: Environmental Sustainability of Smart Cities: Cues from Ebenezer Howard’s Garden City Movement
Chapter 9: Linking Sustainability of Smart Cities to Education and Health: A Study in Smart City Mission, India
Chapter 10: Celebration of Public Festivals Towards Sustainable Development: A Perceptual Study
Chapter 11: Gendered Spaces: A Spatial Perspective of Women’s Fear of Violence and Smart Cities Rhetoric
Part 3: Economic and Technological Issues
Chapter 12: Crowdsourcing for Sustainable Smart Cities and their ICT Practices
Chapter 13: Online Geodata Repositories, Geoweb Services and Emerging Geospatial Technologies in Smart City Planning
Chapter 14: Assessment of Urban Microclimatic Parameters in Various Urban Landscape Settings using Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD)
Chapter 15: Foreign Investment in Energy – Mix: An Assessment of Sustainable Indian Cities
Chapter 16: Understanding Economic Activities of Smart and Amrut Cities of Telangana State
Part 4: Indian Smart Cities: Some Case Studies
Chapter 17: Urban Heat Island (UHI) Assessment using the Satellite Data: A Case Study of Varanasi city, India
Chapter 18: SWOT Analysis to Determine the Feasibility for Guwahati Smart City in North East India
Chapter 19: Smart City Surat: A Case Study for Urban Health System and Climate Resilience
Chapter 20: Industrial Pollution and Soil Quality: A Case Study from Industrial Area, Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh, India
Chapter 21: Analyzing Urban Extension and Land Use Changes in Kalimpong Municipality, West Bengal Using Remote Sensing and GIS
Chapter 22: A Comparative Analysis of Emerging Water Consumption Pattern in Indian Smart Cities
