Tag: Cities

River Cities in Asia Waterways in Urban Development and History


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English | ISBN: 9463721851 | 2022 | 294 pages | PDF | 3 MB
River Cities in Asia uncovers the intimate relationship between rivers and cities in Asia from a multi-disciplinary perspective in the humanities and the social sciences. As rivers have shaped human settlement patterns, economies, culture and rituals, so too have humans impacted the flow and health of rivers. In Asia, the sheer scale of urbanization increases the urgency of addressing challenges facing urban rivers, leading to the importance of historically, socially, and culturally relevant solutions. However, cities are also uneven landscapes of power, affecting chances to achieve holistic ecological approaches. The central premise of River Cities in Asia is that a "river city" is one where proximity between a river and a city exists across time and space, natural and social dimensions. Recognition of these deep connections can help to better contextualize policy solutions aimed at rivers and their ecologies, including human life.

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Cities Made Differently


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English | November 26th, 2024 | ISBN: 0262549336 | 120 pages | True EPUB | 11.26 MB
Full of playful graphics, provocative questions, and curious facts, this book asks what makes a city and how we might make them differently.

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Decentralized Privacy Preservation in Smart Cities (Wireless Networks)


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English | March 19, 2024 | ISBN: 3031540743 | 180 pages | MOBI | 22 Mb
This book investigates decentralized trust-based privacy-preserving solutions in smart cities. The authors first present an overview of smart cities and privacy challenges and discuss the benefits of adopting decentralized trust models in achieving privacy preservation. The authors then give a comprehensive review of fundamental decentralized techniques and privacy-preserving cryptographic techniques. The next four chapters each detail a decentralized trust-based scheme, focusing respectively on privacy-preserving identity management, cross-domain authentication, data analytics, and data search, in specific use cases. Finally, the book explores open issues and outlines future research directions in the field of decentralized privacy preservation.

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Learning Cities, Learning Regions, Learning Communities Lifelong Learning and Local Government


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English | 2006 | pages: 246 | ISBN: 0415371740 | PDF | 2,1 mb
This book explores the mental and social landscape of the city of today and tomorrow; the way in which people think, interact, work together, learn and live with and among each other. Written to address the urgent need for a guide to the principles and practices of lifelong learning, the topics covered include:

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Innovations in Smart Cities and Applications (PDF)


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English | PDF | 2018 | 1073 Pages | ISBN : 3319744992 | 124.1 MB
This proceedings book showcases the latest research work presented at the Second Edition of the Mediterranean Symposium on Smart City Application (SCAMS 2017), which was held in Tangier, Morocco on October 15-27, 2017. It presents original research results, new ideas and practical development experiences that concentrate on both theory and practice. It includes papers from all areas of Smart City Applications, e.g. Smart Mobility, Big Data, Smart Grids, Smart Homes and Buildings, clouds, crowds, mashups, social networks, and security issues.

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Immigration and America’s Cities A Handbook on Evolving Services


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English | ISBN: 0786496339 | 2016 | 312 pages | EPUB | 4 MB
Generations ago, immigrants came to the U.S. from Europe and Africa in large numbers. Today they are arriving mainly from Latin America and Asia. Most are documented but many are not. While the federal and most state governments have done little beyond controlling borders and ports of entry to address pressing immigration issues, public officials and community organizations at the local level have been advancing commonsense, pragmatic solutions to accommodate the newest members of American society.

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Digital Twin and Blockchain for Smart Cities


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English | 2024 | ISBN: 139430353X | 688 Pages | EPUB | 36 MB
In the previous decade, many governments explored artificial intelligence, digital twin, and blockchain, and their roles in smart cities. This book discusses the convergence of two transformative technologies, digital twin and blockchain, to address urban challenges and propel the development of smarter, more sustainable cities. This convergence empowers cities to create real-time replicas of urban environments (digital twins) and secure, transparent data management (blockchain) to improve city planning, management, and civic services. In this application, the concept of a digital twin involves creating a virtual, data-driven replica of a city or specific urban systems, such as transportation, energy, or infrastructure. This digital twin mirrors the real world, gathering data from various sensors, IoT devices, and other sources to provide a holistic view of the city’s operations.

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Brain Gain How innovative cities create job growth in an age of disruption


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English | August 1, 2024 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B0DC1KN3S9 | 222 pages | EPUB | 0.80 Mb
Brain Gain, newly published in a second edition, explains how innovative cities and regions create job growth amid the disruptions of our Digital Century. It is based on more than 20 years of research and engagement by the Intelligent Community Forum with cities and regions that have found the keys to building innovative, inclusive and prosperous economies and cultivate strong social connections and rich and meaningful cultures. The second edition adds new content on the Community Accelerator Strategy, a development framework that has powered the success of places from Eindhoven, Netherlands and Tallinn, Estonia, to Stratford, Ontario, Canada and Taoyuan in Taiwan. It addresses crucial issues from improving education to the urban-rural divide, artificial intelligence to immigration, the new rules of the digital economy to the immense growth potential of small-to-midsize communities.

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Information and Communications Technologies for Smart Cities and Societies (The City Project, 5)


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English | October 10, 2023 | ISBN: 3031394453 | 140 pages | MOBI | 8.67 Mb
This book offers an overview of digital, IoT and intelligent technologies, applications and solutions that are contributing to shape the digital, inclusive, and sustainable transformation of contemporary cities. Based on peer-reviewed contributions to the workshop "Information and Communications Technologies for Smart Cities and Societies", held on December 2, 2022, at the University of Parma, Italy, it offers a multidisciplinary, authoritative snapshot for researchers, architects, and engineers, as well as professionals and policy makers, involved in planning the city of the future. The book describes practical case studies, discussing challenges and opportunities of the integration of ICTs in the planning and management of future cities.

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