Overview
- Presents the concept of smart city in correspondence to a wise and sustainable approach where the well-being of the common citizen whatever their age or physical status is a priority
- Follows a multidisciplinary approach adopting a people-centred, age- gender- and culture-responsive stance to urban development and technological innovation
- Aims to contribute to the definition of urban ecosystems that are driven by the citizens’ collective and individual well-being, respecting human rights in a process where no one can “be left behind”
Part of the book series: Intelligent Systems, Control and Automation: Science and Engineering (ISCA, volume 98)
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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About this book
This book focuses on the potential benefits that the so-called smart technologies have been bringing to the urban reality and to the management and governance of the city, simultaneously highlighting the necessity for its responsible and ethically guided deployment, respecting essential humanistic values.
The urban ecosystem has been, in the last decades, the locus to where the most advanced forms of technological innovation converge, creating intelligent management platforms meant to produce models of energy, water consumption, mobility/transportation, waste management and efficient cities.
Due to the coincidence of the punctual overlap of its own genesis with the pandemics outbreak, the present book came to embody both the initial dream and desire of an intelligent city place of innovation, development and equity – a dream present in most of the chapters – and the fear not just of the pandemics per se, but of the consequences that this may have for the character ofthe intelligent city and for the nature of its relationship with its dwellers that, like a mother, it is supposed to nurture, shelter and protect.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: How Smart Is Your City?
Book Subtitle: Technological Innovation, Ethics and Inclusiveness
Editors: Maria Isabel Aldinhas Ferreira
Series Title: Intelligent Systems, Control and Automation: Science and Engineering
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-56926-6
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Intelligent Technologies and Robotics, Intelligent Technologies and Robotics (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-56925-9Published: 21 October 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-56928-0Published: 22 October 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-56926-6Published: 20 October 2020
Series ISSN: 2213-8986
Series E-ISSN: 2213-8994
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XX, 168
Number of Illustrations: 6 b/w illustrations, 48 illustrations in colour
Topics: Computational Intelligence, Control, Robotics, Mechatronics, Transportation Technology and Traffic Engineering, Artificial Intelligence