Rethinking Smart Cities : Rethinking Urban and Regional Studies - Zaheer Allam

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Rethinking Smart Cities

By: Zaheer Allam, Yusra Raisah Takun

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Hardcover | 6 December 2022

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180 Pages

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21.59 x 13.97 x 1.27

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This innovative book explores the foundations of the smart city and, through a critique of its challenges and concerns, showcases how to redefine the concept for increased sustainability, liveability and resilience in urban areas. It undertakes a review of the smart city concept, providing a new perspective on how technology-based urban solutions must be centred around human dimensions to render more liveable urban fabrics.

Chapters highlight how existing digital infrastructures can be coupled with emerging ones, so that they can provide increased efficiency and performance, with an ultimate objective of rendering safer, more sustainable, resilient and inclusive cities, aligning with the needs of the SDGs. The book also covers emerging technologies and concepts, such as 6G and the '15-minute city', underlining how these can develop within smart city frameworks.

This is an invigorating look into the concept of the smart city and how it can be improved and rethought, making it useful for urban studies and human geography academics and researchers. It also offers helpful insights for policy makers and planners on how to increase the quality of life in modern cities.

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'In a world where the future of our cities is increasingly intertwined with technology, Rethinking Smart Cities serves as a beacon of critical thinking and innovation. The book is a must-read for next generation researchers to know the state of the arts and can be an eye-opener to decision makers, urban planners, and other practitioners. It challenges us to consider not only how smart our cities are but also how smartly we build and govern them.' -- Md Atikul Khalid, Journal of Urban Affairs
'Rethinking Smart Cities offers a refreshing and insightful survey of the increasingly popular concept of "smart cities" It surveys the concept's evolution before critiquing the scope and offering contemporary warnings about the biases and assumptions embedded in this idea that is pervading much of our Western-informed city and regional planning literature and practice today.' -- David S Jones, Monash University and Griffith University, Australia
'In the post-COVID world, humanity needs new models of understanding positive urbanization such as the "15-minute city". Allam and Takun argue for using technology to implement the human-scale city, not to replace it with a totalitarian dystopia. Massive collection of data can be used either to enhance the human experience, or to control the population.' -- Nikos A. Salingaros, The University of Texas at San Antonio, US

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