Includes bibliographical references (pages 326-333).
Contents:
ch. 15 Life is good. ch. 2 Evolution -- ch. 3 The Smart revolution -- ch. 4 Living in the Smarter world -- ch. 5 Smart @ Live -- ch. 6 What is making us Smart -- ch. 7 Constituents of the Smart world -- ch. 8 Unplugging Smart cities -- ch. 9 Plugging Smart cities -- ch. 10 How Smart do we want? -- ch. 11 Doing it right -- ch. 12 The grand design -- ch. 13 The economics of a Smart city -- ch. 14 The new world order -- ch. 15 Life is good.
Summary:
A handbook for the practitioners, this book is a complete treatise on the topic of Smart, covering: 1. A comprehensive framework with the needed definitions, concepts, strategies, approaches and technologies to develop and manage a greenfield or brownfield Smart city. 2. Integrating economics, developmental concepts, engineering, environment and governance that sets the definitive foundation of the Smart framework. 3. Technologies that are powering the Smart movement. Extensive case-studies. 4. Societal and Political research and progress made by the academia. 5. Specific methodology of measuring Smart elements of a city. Introduction to the concepts of Smart Map and Smart Index. 6. A structured approach to transformation, setting priorities, execution, financing and governance. The new structure and market dynamics of the Smart industry.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.