Smart Cities and Artificial Intelligence

Convergent Systems for Planning, Design, and Operations

Christopher Grant Kirwan, Fu Zhiyong (Autoren)

Buch | Softcover

288 Seiten

2025 | 2nd edition
Elsevier - Health Sciences Division (Verlag)
978-0-443-23621-1 (ISBN)

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Smart Cities and Artificial Intelligence: Convergent Systems for Planning, Design, and Operations, Second Edition offers a comprehensive view of how cities are evolving as smart ecosystems through the convergence of technologies incorporating machine learning and neural network capabilities, geospatial intelligence, data analytics and visualization, sensors, and smart connected objects. Exploring cities as real-time, living, dynamic systems, and providing tools and formats including generative design and living lab models that support cities to become self-regulating, this book provides readers with a conceptual and practical knowledge base to grasp and apply the key principles required in the planning, design, and operations of smart cities.

This book brings a multidisciplinary, integrated approach, examining how the digital and physical worlds are converging, and how a new combination of human and machine intelligence is transforming the experience of the urban environment. It presents a fresh, holistic understanding of smart cities through an interconnected stream of theory, planning and design methodologies, system architecture, and the application of smart city functions, with the ultimate purpose of making cities more liveable, sustainable, and self-sufficient. This updated second edition also includes a new focus on the Metaverse as an extension of the smart city operating system, as well as an updated comparison of different smart city models that have been implemented around the world, such as the smart city as a platform, as a product, and as a service. All sections have been updated to align with technological advancements, and there are new use cases and applications of AI in smart cities that have emerged since the first edition was published.

Christopher Grant Kirwan is a multidisciplinary professional and educator with more than 30 years’ experience spanning the fields of urban planning, architecture, new media, and branding. Living and working in international hubs of innovation—Milan, New York, Dubai, Beijing, Bangkok, Rio de Janeiro, and London—he has been involved in all phases of project implementation including the research, planning, design, and business of technology integration, urban development, and smart cities. He is currently CEO of AI Convergence Ltd., leading global smart city and AI initiatives from hubs in New York, London, and Riyadh. A Visiting Professor and lecturer in urban intelligence and design innovation, he is also an author and researcher specializing in AI-driven urban systems, digital interfaces, and the evolution of next-generation city operating models. In addition to his role as co-director of the Smart Cities Convergence program launching in spring 2023, he is currently a Visiting Professor at both Henley Business School Informatics Research Centre, University of Reading, and Parsons School of Design in New York and has previously taught at Harvard Graduate School of Design and Tsinghua University where he co-founded the Design Beijing Lab with Dr. Fu Zhiyong. Fu Zhiyong is an Associate Professor at the Academy of Arts and Design, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, and Co-Founder of the Global Design Futures Network. He has more than 20 years of teaching and research experience in the fields of information design, interaction design, service design, and social innovation related to human–computer interface and smart cities. Dedicated to educational program development and cross-institutional collaboration, he has established workshops, innovation labs, and special joint research projects around the world. He previously served as Associate Dean of the China-Italy Design Innovation Hub at Tsinghua University and Vice Director of the China Innovation and Entrepreneurship Education Research Center, and continues to hold leadership roles as Secretary-General for the China Information and Interaction Design Committee (IIDC) and Vice President of the International Chinese Association of Human–Computer Interaction (ICACHI).

1. Evolution of cities/technologies
2. City as living organism
3. Strategies, planning, and design
4. City Operating Systems
5. Connectivity
6. Interface
7. Smart City Scenarios
8. Smart city functions
9. Smart city business models
10. Conclusions

Erscheinungsdatum	02.12.2025
Reihe/Serie	Smart Cities
Verlagsort	Philadelphia
Sprache	englisch
Maße	191 x 235 mm
Gewicht	450 g
Themenwelt	Informatik ► Theorie / Studium ► Künstliche Intelligenz / Robotik
	Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie
	Technik
ISBN-10	0-443-23621-6 / 0443236216
ISBN-13	978-0-443-23621-1 / 9780443236211
Zustand	Neuware