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Biotechnology and Future Cities

Towards Sustainability, Resilience and Living Urban Organisms

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Authors:
  1. Zaheer Allam

    1. Live+Smart Research Lab, School of Architecture & Built Environment, Deakin University, Geelong, Australia

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  • Introduces a novel perspective on the current urban narrative

  • Revisits and expands the concept of smart cities

  • Explores how biological sciences coupled with technology can turn cities into living organisms of unprecedented scale

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Table of contents (5 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xv
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  2. Biotechnology to Render Future Cities as Living and Intelligent Organisms

    • Zaheer Allam
    Pages 1-15

  3. The Triple B: Big Data, Biotechnology, and Biomimicry

    • Zaheer Allam
    Pages 17-33

  4. Revisiting Energy Policy and Planning in Future Living Cities

    • Zaheer Allam
    Pages 35-52

  5. On Gene Editing and the Conflicts Between Biodiversity and Urban Livability

    • Zaheer Allam
    Pages 53-68

  6. Biometrics, Privacy, Safety, and Resilience in Future Cities

    • Zaheer Allam
    Pages 69-87

  7. Back Matter

    Pages 89-90
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About this book

This book explores how biotechnology can lead to the reimagination of cities. In a time where the increasing adoption of technology by cities is leading to unsustainable environmental and economic concerns, biotechnology has enabled new ways of envisioning data and energy storage. Zaheer Allam thus revisits the popular concept of Smart Cities -and its associated Internet of Things (IoT) to explore how the biological sciences, coupled with technology, can be applied to cities; and in doing so, create living urban organisms on an unprecedented scale. 

This new concept will open up exciting avenues to providing novel solutions for climate change mitigation. The book goes on to address various potential concerns and discusses what regulatory frameworks would be needed to safely implement such a concept. It will be a useful tool for planners, policy makers and engineers as well as for researchers with in interest in the future of our cities. 




Authors and Affiliations

  • Live+Smart Research Lab, School of Architecture & Built Environment, Deakin University, Geelong, Australia

    Zaheer Allam

About the author

Zaheer Allam works as an Urban Strategist for the Port Louis Development Initiative (PLDI), Mauritius and the Global Creative Leadership Initiative. He is the African Representative of the International Society of Biourbanism (ISB) and a member of the Advisory Circle of the International Federation of Landscape Architects (IFLA). He was elevated, by the President of Mauritius, to the rank of Officer of the Order of the Star and Key of the Indian Ocean (OSK); the highest distinct order of Merit in Mauritius.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Biotechnology and Future Cities

  • Book Subtitle: Towards Sustainability, Resilience and Living Urban Organisms

  • Authors: Zaheer Allam

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-43815-9

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-43814-2Published: 31 March 2020

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-43817-3Published: 31 March 2021

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-43815-9Published: 30 March 2020

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XV, 90

  • Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations, 10 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Human Geography, Sociology, general, Urban Geography / Urbanism (inc. megacities, cities, towns), Ecology, Biotechnology

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