Urban informatics / Wenzhong Shi, Michael F. Goodchild, Michael Batty, Mei-Po Kwan, Anshu Zhang, editors.
2021
HT166
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Title
Urban informatics / Wenzhong Shi, Michael F. Goodchild, Michael Batty, Mei-Po Kwan, Anshu Zhang, editors.
ISBN
9789811589836 (electronic bk.)
9811589836 (electronic bk.)
9789811589829
9789811589850 (softcover)
9811589836 (electronic bk.)
9789811589829
9789811589850 (softcover)
Published
Singapore : Springer, [2021]
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xvi, 941 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color)
Item Number
10.1007/978-981-15-8983-6 doi
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HT166
Dewey Decimal Classification
307.76
Summary
This open access book is the first to systematically introduce the principles of urban informatics and its application to every aspect of the city that involves its functioning, control, management, and future planning. It introduces new models and tools being developed to understand and implement these technologies that enable cities to function more efficiently - to become 'smart' and 'sustainable'. The smart city has quickly emerged as computers have become ever smaller to the point where they can be embedded into the very fabric of the city, as well as being central to new ways in which the population can communicate and act. When cities are wired in this way, they have the potential to become sentient and responsive, generating massive streams of 'big' data in real time as well as providing immense opportunities for extracting new forms of urban data through crowdsourcing. This book offers a comprehensive review of the methods that form the core of urban informatics from various kinds of urban remote sensing to new approaches to machine learning and statistical modelling. It provides a detailed technical introduction to the wide array of tools information scientists need to develop the key urban analytics that are fundamental to learning about the smart city, and it outlines ways in which these tools can be used to inform design and policy so that cities can become more efficient with a greater concern for environment and equity.
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Includes bibliographical references.
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Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed April 19, 2021).
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Urban book series. 2365-757X
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Table of Contents
Urban Science and Systems
Urban Sensing
Urban Big Data Infrastructure
Urban Computing
Urban Problems and Possible Solutions
Perspectives for the Future.
Urban Sensing
Urban Big Data Infrastructure
Urban Computing
Urban Problems and Possible Solutions
Perspectives for the Future.