Description
| Product ID: | 9789811085871 |
| Product Form: | Hardback |
| Country of Manufacture: | SG |
| Series: | Advances in 21st Century Human Settlements |
| Title: | Smart Metropolitan Regional Development |
| Subtitle: | Economic and Spatial Design Strategies |
| Authors: | Author: T.M. Vinod Kumar |
| Page Count: | 1096 |
| Subjects: | City and town planning: architectural aspects, City & town planning - architectural aspects, Political structures: democracy, Regional / urban economics, Physical geography and topography, Sustainability, Urban and municipal planning and policy, Political structures: democracy, Urban economics, Physical geography & topography, Sustainability, Urban & municipal planning |
| Description: | This book discusses the concept and practice of a smart metropolitan region, and how smart cities promote healthy economic and spatial development. This book discusses the concept and practice of a smart metropolitan region, and how smart cities promote healthy economic and spatial development. It highlights how smart metropolitan regional development can energize, reorganize and transform the legacy economy into a smart economy; how it can help embrace Information and Communications Technology (ICT); and how it can foster a shared economy. In addition, it outlines how the five pillars of the third industrial revolution can be achieved by smart communities. In addition, the book draws on 16 in-depth city case studies from ten countries to explore the state of the art regarding the smart economy in smart cities – and to apply the lessons learned to shape smart metropolitan economic and spatial development. |
| Imprint Name: | Springer Verlag, Singapore |
| Publisher Name: | Springer Verlag, Singapore |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2018-06-15 |
