Smart Cities and the UN's SDGs explores how smart cities initiatives intersect with the global goal of making urbanization inclusive, resilient, and sustainable. Topics explored include digital governance, e-democracy, health care access, public-private partnerships, well-being, and more. Examining smart cities concepts, tools, strategies, and obstacles and their applicability to sustainability, the book exposes key structural problems that cities face and how the imperative of sustainability can bypass them. It shows how smart city technological innovation can boost citizens' well-being, serving as a key reference for those seeking to make sense of the issues and challenges of smart cities and SDGs. Includes numerous case studies from around the worldFeatures interdisciplinary insights from academic and practitioner expertsOffers an extensive literature review INDICE: 1. Introduction 2. Inclusiveness, safety and resilience: challenges for sustainable development of smart cities 3. The Green turn: smart cities and sustainability in the discourse of Europe 4. Sustainability and smart cities: a worldwide comparison 5. Smart Cities and Sustainability: Sociologists' perspective 6. Developing smart social well-being sector 7. Smart city sustainability via Data Driven Smart Healthcare 8. Open Data Portals as a pillar for sustainable urban development 9. Foresight and the making of a smart city 10. Integrated feasibility studies and sustainable development planning: the case of new urban communities 11. Smart cities, sustainability and quality of life: the case of urban planning 12. Energy sustainability in smart cities: the case of smart house and rationalization of energy consumption 13. Sustainability in the making: the case of the City of NEOM 14. Smart city from the perspective of Civil IoT 15. Conclusions
- ISBN: 978-0-323-85151-0
- Editorial: Elsevier
- Encuadernacion: Rústica
- Páginas: 256
- Fecha Publicación: 01/06/2021
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés