The data-driven approach to sustainable urban development is becoming increasingly
popular among the cities across the world. This is due to cities' attention in supporting smart …

Cities are increasingly turning towards specialized technologies to address issues related to
society, ecology, morphology and many others. The emerging concept of Smart Cities highly …

Abstract The Internet of Things (IoT) is one of the key components of the ICT infrastructure of
smart sustainable cities as an emerging urban development approach due to its great …

In recent years, there has been significant focus on smart cities, on how they operate and
develop, and on their technical and social challenges. The importance of infrastructure as a …

This timely book is concerned with the recent advances in the leading paradigms of
urbanism, namely compact cities, eco-cities, and data-driven smart cities, and the evolving …

Cities are undergoing huge shifts in technology and operations in recent days, and 'data
science'is driving the change in the current age of the Fourth Industrial Revolution (Industry …

Experts confirm that 85% of the world's population is expected to live in cities by 2050.
Therefore, cities should be prepared to satisfy the needs of their citizens and provide the …

The introduction of the Information and Communication Technologies throughout the last
decades has created a trend of providing daily objects with smartness, aiming to make …

The recent proliferation of ubiquitous computing technologies has led to the emergence of
urban computing that aims to provide intelligent services to inhabitants of smart cities. Urban …

We are moving into an era where instrumentation, datafication, and computerization are
routinely pervading the very fabric of cities, coupled with the interlinking, integration, and …