Cities that promote inclusion not only ensure greater opportunities for their citizens but often reap large economic benefits. In recent years, smart cities have exploited and used technologies to guarantee a better quality of services and to predictively analyse and provide responses to urban changes in a proactive way. However, it has become clear that some initiatives have made existing inequalities stronger by failing to address the needs of all citizens. Today, more than ever, it is necessary to address inclusiveness in smart cities from the ground up. Sustainable solutions and energy efficient methods have led to cleaner energy, pollution reduction, improvements in the life of citizens, and transformed environments and regulatory structures to be more inclusive. This is creating smarter cities where citizens, inclusivity and sustainability are at the core.
Designing a new smart city is much simpler than incorporating new technologies into an already built urban space. This book covers technology advances, innovative concepts, solutions and applications in smart cities, both from engineering and social perspectives.
Smart Cities for Inclusive Innovation: Concepts, technologies and solutions is a useful resource for researchers and engineers in smart cities and their associated technologies as well as specialists such as planners, decision-makers and stakeholders in urban communities and local governments, and administrators involved in current and impending smart cities-related activities.
Aimed at smart city researchers and engineers, city planners, and stakeholders in urban communities and local governments, this book covers technology advances, innovative concepts, solutions and applications in smart cities, both from an engineering and social aspects towards inclusive innovation and sustainability.
- Chapter 1: Inclusive transformation: toward an ecosystem of social innovation
- Chapter 2: Smart cities' key indicators
- Chapter 3: Smart cities' development roadmap: case of the urban digital twin for the city of Berkane, Morocco
- Chapter 4: Expansion and optimization of multi-carrier infrastructure in smart cities
- Chapter 5: Smart sensors for smart environment
- Chapter 6: Positive energy districts
- Chapter 7: Wastes integration for increasing energy efficiency in smart cities
- Chapter 8: Smart transport services in large urban cities
- Chapter 9: Economic feasibility: key points analysis of smart cities projects
- Chapter 10: Smart governance and e-public administration in smart cities
- Chapter 11: Smart education
- Chapter 12: Facing pandemics through smart cities
- Chapter 13: Conclusion: future perspectives and new research directions