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Promotes an understanding of the relevant technologies for coordinated, efficient cities
Explains how to leverage big-data analytics for smart city insights and decision making
Discusses the repeatable elements of design thinking and explores how it adds value to urban living environments
Examines the weaknesses of a technology-centric planning approach when compared to a human-centered solutions-oriented approach
Explores the complex issues of creating a secure and private smart city
Summary

The term ´smart city´ defines the new urban environment, one that is designed for performance through information and communication technologies. Given that the majority of people across the world will live in urban environments within the next few decades, it´s not surprising that massive effort and investment is being placed into efforts to develop strategies and plans for achieving ´smart´ urban growth. Building Smart Cities: Analytics, ICT, and Design Thinking explains the technology and a methodology known as design thinking for building smart cities.

Information and communications technologies form the backbone of smart cities. A comprehensive and robust data analytics program enables the right choices to be made in building these cities. Design thinking helps to create smart cities that are both livable and able to evolve. This book examines all of these components in the context of smart city development and shows how to use them in an integrated manner.

Using the principles of design thinking to reframe the problems of the smart city and capture the real needs of people living in a highly efficient urban environment, the book helps city planners and technologists through the following:

Presentation of the relevant technologies required for coordinated, efficient cities
Exploration of the latent needs of community stakeholders in a culturally appropriate context
Discussion of the tested approaches to ideation, design, prototyping, and building or retrofitting smart cities
Proposal of a model for a viable smart city project
The smart city vision that we can create an optimized society through technology is hypothetical at best and reflects the failed repetition through the ages of equating scientific progress with positive social change. Up until now, despite our best hopes and efforts, technology has yet to bring an end to scarcity or suffering. Technical innovation, instead, can and should be directed in the service of our shared cultural values, especially within the rapidly growing urban milieu.

In Building Smart Cities: Analytics, ICT, and Design Thinking, the author discusses the need to focus on creating human-centered approaches to our cities that integrate our human needs and technology to meet our economic, environmental, and existential needs. The book shows how this approach can lead to innovative, livable urban environments that are realizable, practical, and economically and environmentally sustainable.



Table of Contents

DESIGNING SMART CITIES FOR HUMAN NEEDS

The Imperative for Smart Cities
A New Vision
What Is Smart?
A Sensitive Relationship
What Do We Really Want from the Smart City?
Managing the Shift
Designing for People

Technology, Innovation, and the Problem with People
Chapter Goal
Are We Really Ready for Technology Advancement?
People and Technology: Collision or Cooperation?
Sensors to Services
The Surprisingly Familiar Sensor
The Internet of Things

A New Perspective on Smart Cities
Chapter Goal
The Position for Moving Forward
What's the Holdup?
Smart City Design Goals
A Usable World

Why Design Thinking?
Chapter Goal
Thinking About Thinking
So, What About Merging?

Design Thinking Applied
Chapter Goal
A Method, Not Magic
Ways That Design Thinking Has Been Used in Cities
When Urban Design Rises Above Imposition
Assessing the Usefulness of Design Thinking

Section One: Key Points

A REVIEW OF SMART CITY TECHNOLOGIES

Smart City Planning and Management
Chapter Goal
Smart Cities and Their Role in the Creation of a National Identity
A New Role for City Government
Balancing the Forces
The Politics of Artifacts

The Fundamentals of Smart Infrastructure
Chapter Goal
The Energy Opportunity
The Building Opportunity
Orchestrating Our Lives, Not Just Our Buildings
The Bonds of Energy and Water
Full Convergence

The Urban Life Force
Chapter Goal
Transportation as Animating Principle
Innovative Transportation Services
Transportation Connects
Where Do We Go Now?

Section Two: Key Points

DATA ANALYTICS AND THE SMART URBAN DWELLER

Smart City Analytics
Chapter Goal
The Vocabulary of Analytics
Analytical Models
The Analytics of Things
The Analytical Intersection of Human and Machine
Analytics as a Service

Technology, Social Inclusion, and the Wisdom of the Urban Community
Chapter Goal
Technology in Social Inclusion
People as Sensors
From Social Inclusion to Social Influence
Crowdsourcing for a Smarter City

Information Security and Privacy
Chapter Goal
Drawing the Lines
Security Deserves an Important Place in Design
Privacy Begins in the Home
The Role of Open Data in the Privacy Discussion
Putting This into Practice

Section Three: Key Points

DESIGNING INNOVATION

Hacking the City
Chapter Goal
Designing Inspiration
Sociospatial Perspectives

Smart Cities: Problem or Promise?
Chapter Goal
Forging a Partnership
Create an Ecosystem
Crossing the Chasm of Fear
How Design Thinking Can Work for the Smart City
So, You Want to Design a Smarter City?

Section Four: Key Points