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    • Improving Environmental and Human Health with Community Trees and Forests

      • 1st Edition
      • January 1, 2026
      • David Nowak
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Improving Environmental and Human Health with Community Trees and Forests provides the latest and most comprehensive information on community forests globally, how these trees improve human health and well-being, the value of community trees, and what local land managers, from the lot to regional scale, could do to improve the benefits provided by community trees. It offers a complete understanding of the benefits and costs associated with trees in cities and how these benefits occur. This book facilitates the creation of sustainable community forests that provide optimal benefits to individuals and society.It takes a systems approach, focusing on the forest population rather than the individual tree, and providing information on the best tree species and designs to produce optimal effects. The book is divided into three major sections: The Basics, Urban Forest Benefits, and Improving the Urban Environment with Trees. It covers how cities affect our local environment, the monetary value of trees, and specific steps that land managers should follow to manage and improve their local tree and forest population. This comprehensive resource is valuable for city forest and park managers, policy makers, regional managers, and non-profit groups.

    • Assembling Smart Cyber-Physical Systems

      • 1st Edition
      • January 1, 2026
      • Zakaria Benomar + 3 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Assembling Smart Cyber-Physical Systems: Heterogeneous, Diffuse and Green Technological Infrastructures for Cities and Industries offers a comprehensive approach on how to design, implement, and use Cyber Physical Systems (CPSs)-computing systems with a strong interaction between the physical environment (equipped with sensors and actuators) and the cyber realm (the Cloud). Through a carefully structured methodological approach to systems design, readers will learn how the infrastructure continuum represents our environment, where we can move from edge computing to the Cloud, going through fog resources to set up an entire framework for services deployment and application in smart cities and industries.As dealing with complex systems has become increasingly difficult, CPSs are increasingly critical to cope with integrating software, which people are used to, with hardware, which is distributed among different domains. This book shows how to deal with such systems where there is no distinction among the different parts: computing, storage, networking, and IoT all contribute to setting up the modern processing environments, thus it is mandatory to keep them simultaneously under control.

    • Smart Cities and Artificial Intelligence

      • 2nd Edition
      • December 1, 2025
      • Christopher Grant Kirwan + 1 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Smart Cities and Artificial Intelligence: Convergent Systems for Planning, Design, and Operations, Second Edition delves into the evolution of urban ecosystems through the integration of advanced technologies like machine learning, geospatial intelligence, and smart connected objects. By examining cities as dynamic, real-time systems and providing tools such as generative design and living lab models, this book equips readers with both conceptual and practical knowledge for planning, designing, and operating smart cities. The book adopts a multidisciplinary approach, emphasizing the convergence of digital and physical realms and the transformative impact of human and machine intelligence on urban environments.It offers a holistic understanding of smart city functions, aiming to make cities more livable and sustainable. New sections include a focus on the Metaverse, comparisons of global smart city models, and updated use cases and applications of AI since the first edition.

    • Models and Measures for Sustainable City Logistics

      • 1st Edition
      • March 1, 2025
      • Francesco Russo + 1 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Models and Measures for Sustainable City: Behavioral Choice Processes Logistics offers a thorough understanding of urban freight movements, focusing on behavioral aspects of consumers. It outlines the role of modelling the behavioral aspects of people determining urban freight movements, mapping the behavior of the end consumer and the retailer which generates freight movements in an urban context. It provides new methods of urban freight transport simulation, taking into account the challenges of sustainable development goals, and uses the most recent approaches in modelling for city logistics scenario design and planning. It also outlines the relationships between measures and main components (expressed by indicators) of sustainable development.This book guides readers in implementing the most effective city logistics measures and actions, addressing the choice of a set of measures and the definition of planning scenarios. Readers are introduced to simulation methods for estimating impacts and system performance, which can be used for comparing the future scenario outcomes according to the set of target indicators defined by Agenda 2030. The book first specifies end consumer behaviors in purchasing processes, analyzing the individual phases of the purchase. The retailer’s behaviors are then specified, and after specifying the patterns of the decision makers, the quantities of goods that constitute the references for the choices of the decision makers are analyzed. Finally, the book presents the problems whose solution makes it possible to identify the vehicles of the various types and then the flows on the network. The overall structure of the model system and the specification of each single model are then given. Some models calibrated in different real cases are presented, highlighting their applicability to other contexts. Finally, implementable measures are presented and the relationships between measures and main components (expressed by indicators) of sustainable development are examined.Transport technicians, post-graduate students, and academics alike will find this a valuable resource for understanding how to incorporate user behavior into transport planning and logistics modeling, ultimately helping them to optimize processes and promote sustainability.

    • Meeting SDGs in Smart City Infrastructures

      • 1st Edition
      • September 3, 2025
      • Manas Pradhan
      • English
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      Meeting SDGs in Smart City Infrastructures: Federation, Interoperability and Discoverability explores the current state-of-the-art practices in smart city digitization and e-governance processes, aligning with the UN Sustainable Development Goals. It discusses the pros and cons of various data standards and federation measures involved in the digital transformation of cities from both the end user and implementor’s perspectives. Utilizing real-world use cases from cities worldwide, the book highlights their goals and adopted measures. It provides guidelines for achieving long-term service federation, interoperability, and discoverability while keeping the UN SDGs in perspective.This resource is invaluable for practitioners and researchers in the smart city domain. It will help practitioners and researchers in the smart city domain better understand existing and evolving technologies and how to better formulate their processes to provide a sustainable model for urban development.

    • Digital Twins for Smart Metabolic Circular Cities

      • 1st Edition
      • May 29, 2025
      • Simon Elias Bibri + 2 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Digital Twins for Smart Metabolic Circular Cities: Innovations in Planning and Climate Resilience explores the advanced convergence of smart city technologies, digital twin applications, smart urban metabolism, and circular economy principles. This comprehensive resource offers insights into sustainable urban practices and innovative approaches to address the multifaceted challenges posed by rapid urbanization, environmental degradation, and climate change. In a rapidly changing world, this book provides a detailed understanding of how digital twin technologies and smart urban metabolism frameworks can be applied to foster sustainable urban development. This holistic perspective bridges urban planning, environmental sustainability, and the transformative potential of digital twins.The book equips readers with practical insights and solutions to navigate contemporary urban development complexities. It is an invaluable resource for urban planners, environmental scientists, policymakers, and technology experts interested in sustainable practices. Through real-world applications, foundational theory, and forward-thinking strategies, it empowers readers with the knowledge to address pressing environmental and infrastructural challenges associated with the future of smart cities.

    • Urban Risk Management in China

      • 1st Edition
      • January 23, 2024
      • Jianping Sun
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Urban Risk Management in China: Principles, Methods and Practices discusses the management of urban risk, the practical application of risk prevention, and the practice of control in the industry. Urban risk management is an emerging and interdisciplinary research field, and this book meets the urgent need to identify, analyze, and summarize urban risks and management difficulties that are experienced worldwide, especially in metropolitan cities. With rapid and large-scale urbanization, China's urban management experience in facing a series of comprehensive challenges provides a helpful way forward for urban planners around the world.This book clarifies the concept of urban risk, which includes urban land use, housing, infrastructure construction, economic and social development, and environmental protection, with an aim of analyzing the obstacles to urban risk management, forming a cognitive framework, organizing the practice of urban risk management, and finally forming a workable urban risk management system.

    • Digitally Disrupted Space

      • 1st Edition
      • February 15, 2024
      • Anastasia Panori
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Digitally Disrupted Space: Proximity and New Development Opportunities for Regions and Cities develops an analytical framework of the key structural elements in relation to the digital space and its impact on existing spatial interactions at a regional and urban level. The book puts forth the argument that the digital space is a new form of space acting complementary to existing spatial structures and creating novel interactions between and/or within them. It explores how digital space enhances connected intelligence by combining knowledge-intensive activities, cooperation between organizational and institutional actors, and smart environments of knowledge creation and diffusion.Academics and researchers will find insights into how cities and regions can adopt this new developmental paradigm; how to organize connected intelligence within regional and urban environments; and how to sustain productivity, resilience and inclusion through the use of digital space. Digital transformation managers in the public sector and entrepreneurs in private organizations can leverage the opportunities offered from this transition process, not only by identifying actions and strategies for boosting their productivity, but also for making them more resilient during socio-economic, environmental and health crises.

    • Smart Cities and Sustainable Manufacturing

      • 1st Edition
      • November 27, 2024
      • Roshan Raman + 2 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Smart Cities and Sustainable Manufacturing: Innovations for a Greener Future explores the intersection of these two essential disciplines, underscoring the transformative potential of their integration in sculpting sustainable urban landscapes. By providing cutting-edge research, case studies, success stories, and practical guidance, this book facilitates knowledge sharing and collaboration and inspires stakeholders to implement sustainable and innovative solutions. Further, it illustrates how integrating smart cities and sustainable manufacturing can contribute to a greener future by investigating the role of emergent technologies, policy frameworks, business models, and more.This essential resource covers a range of topics related to smart cities and sustainable manufacturing, including technologies for smart cities, such as IoT, AI, big data analytics, and sensor networks; sustainable infrastructure design, such as green buildings, energy-efficient transportation systems, and renewable energy integration; circular economy and waste management strategies; sustainable transportation initiatives such as intelligent transportation systems, electric mobility solutions, and shared mobility services, and much more.

    • Smart City Assessment

      • 1st Edition
      • August 13, 2024
      • Azzam Abu-Rayash
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Smart City Assessment: A Novel Framework for Development and Evaluation of Smart Cities outlines a new assessment model for smart cities, including energy, environmental, and economic factors. It introduces a new paradigm to the understanding of smart cities by defining it using eight main domains, each domain using four specific performance indicators. This book defines a smart city as one with a smart environment, smart economy, smart society, smart culture, smart governance, smart energy, smart infrastructure, smart transportation, and one that is resilient to pandemics and global emergencies.This book begins by outlining these basic elements of a smart city, from sustainability to transportation networks. It then proposes a framework for evaluation, before analyzing both technological and socioeconomic factors in more detail. Central to the reader’s understanding are the wide range of detailed case studies based on real-world cities, analyzing their smart-ness and demonstrating the application of a Smart City Index ranking based on the assessment criteria. The application of this novel and comprehensive methodology is applied on 20 cities worldwide and trends, relationships between indicators and domains are assessed to better understand the dynamic connections in this composite network of indicators. Providing the theoretical background as well as the practical assessment tools necessary, this book offers a timely discussion of the criteria and development for smart, sustainable urban living.