Overview
- Introduces systematically the principles of urban informatics, including urban system theories, techniques, and tools for urban big data acquisition, infrastructure, and analytics, as well as focusing these new tools on urban problems and possible solutions
- Brings together over 140 world-leading researchers and 50 institutions across a wide range of scientific disciplines to deliver a collaborative understanding, technologies, and solutions in the field of urban informatics
- Integrates highly diverse tools and techniques associated with the analysis of the smart city, but often dealt with separately, under the rubric of geographic information science
- Is an open access book
Part of the book series: The Urban Book Series (UBS)
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Table of contents (48 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Dimensions of Urban Science
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Front Matter
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Urban Systems and Applications
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Front Matter
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Keywords
About this book
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Michael F. Goodchild is Professor Emeritus of Geography at the University of California, Santa Barbara and Distinguished Chair Professor at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Until 2012, he held the Jack and Laura Dangermond Chair of Geography and was Director of UCSB’s Center for Spatial Studies. He was elected member of the US National Academy of Sciences in 2002, Foreign Member of the Royal Society, and Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy in 2010. He has published over 550 books and articles.
Michael Batty is Bartlett Professor of Planning at University College London where he is Chair of the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA), and Distinguished Chair Professor at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. From 1979 to 1990, he was Professor of City Planning at the University of Cardiff and from 1990 to 1995, Director of the National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis at the State University of New York at Buffalo. He is a Fellow of the British Academy (FBA) and the Royal Society (FRS). His most recent book is Inventing Future Cities (2018), and he is Editor of the journal Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science.
Mei-Po Kwan is Choh-Ming Li Professor of Geography and Resource Management at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. She is Editor of the book series entitled SAGE Advances in Geographic Information Science and Technology. She had served as an Editor of Annals of the American Association of Geographers for 12 years. She is a Fellow of the UK Academy of Social Sciences and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. She has received many prestigious honors and awards, including the Distinguished Scholarship Honors and the Stanley Brunn Award for Creativity in Geography from the American Association of Geographers.
Anshu Zhang is a Research Assistant Professor in the Department of Land Surveying and Geo-Informatics, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. She has participated in multiple governmental funded projects and is the Principle Investigator of a sub-project under the State Key R&D Scheme of China. She received the China Science and Technology Progress Award in Surveying and Mapping (Grand Award) in 2017.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Urban Informatics
Editors: Wenzhong Shi, Michael F. Goodchild, Michael Batty, Mei-Po Kwan, Anshu Zhang
Series Title: The Urban Book Series
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-8983-6
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-15-8982-9Published: 07 April 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-15-8985-0Published: 29 December 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-981-15-8983-6Published: 06 April 2021
Series ISSN: 2365-757X
Series E-ISSN: 2365-7588
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 941
Number of Illustrations: 34 b/w illustrations, 355 illustrations in colour
Topics: Human Geography, Information Systems and Communication Service, Computer Applications, Geography, general