Planning and Designing Smart Cities in Developing Nations

By Saleem Gregory Zoughbi

Book Overview

As smart cities are rapidly developing, it is vital that they are built on a combination of support and active participation of self-decisive, independent, and aware citizens by ensuring strong human capital, social capital, and information and communications technology infrastructure. Due to this evolution across the globe, it is critical to examine how others are working to create smarter cities in order to learn and revolutionize the way cities are planned and executed. Planning and Designing Smart Cities in Developing Nations explores smart city implementation in developing countries by highlighting the challenges and opportunities of smart cities and showcasing various developments and accomplishments and presents a framework to implement strategic plans for smart development. Covering topics such as smart technologies and social capital, it is ideal for policymakers, economic and development professionals, city planners and designers, government officials, academicians, professors, and students.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1668435101
• ISBN13: 9781668435106
• Release Date: December 2021
• Publisher: Information Science Reference
• Length: 300 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 7.0" x 10.0"