Sixteen Shades of Smart: How Cities Can Shape Their Own Future

Sixteen Shades of Smart: How Cities Can Shape Their Own Future
Author: Christos Cabolis
Publisher:
Total Pages: 420
Release: 2019-11-11
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 9782940485307

Smart cities are a fast-growing species, and a fascinating field for new experiments in a number of critical areas, ranging from urban planning, sustainable energy, and transport strategies to social integration and talent attraction, to name a few. As leaders and citizens around the world continue to assess, design, implement and improve on ways to create better cities, they often find themselves confronted with a multitude of decisions and a wide range of partial solutions to specific problems such as traffic congestion, waste management and crime. Unfortunately, they have precious few tools to enable them to define the strategies required and take advantage of the experience of other smart cities around the world. In such a context, metrics can play a significant and constructive role: by quantifying efforts and results, they increase the ability of decision-makers to identify where their priorities should lie as well as the relative merits of various approaches.

Smart Sustainability Transformation Playbook

Smart Sustainability Transformation Playbook
Author: Belinda Yuen
Publisher: World Scientific
Total Pages: 139
Release: 2024-02-06
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9811287287

The Smart Sustainability Transformation Playbook aims to demystify the socio-technical systems and processes of sustainability transitions through the study of 12 smart cities — Auckland, Boston, Copenhagen, Gothenburg, Guangzhou, Hangzhou, Medellin, Melbourne, Milan, Seoul, Tokyo, and Vancouver, selected from the IMD-SUTD 2021 Smart City Index. The selection encompasses a range of smart cities and developments on selected critical areas in economic prosperity, social inclusion, and environmental sustainability. The analysis draws on literature review, secondary data, interviews with city officials, and case studies of smart city projects in the 12 cities to better understand how people, organisations, and technologies interact to achieve the city's smart vision for sustainability. Attention is pivoted towards clarifying the characteristics and conditions that help smart cities formulate their visions and strategies on selected issues of economic prosperity, social inclusion, and environmental sustainability; unpacking the processes and outcomes of smart city innovations and transformations with case examples; developing a checklist of critical success factors and pitfalls when implementing smart city innovations; and consolidating a micro-foundation of good practices on success factors and pitfalls in smart city development for long-term change.

The Right Place

The Right Place
Author: Arturo Bris
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 368
Release: 2021-07-28
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1000327795

The Right Place explains why firms succeed in one country and fail in another, irrespective of their inner drivers, and suggests potential initiatives that governments can take to help the private sector create jobs and, consequently, make their countries more prosperous. The competitiveness race is not unlike a cycling race. If you want to ride fast, you need three things: a good bike, to be in good shape, and a smooth and fast road. In a collaborative model, you might say the business is the bicycle, the business leader is the cyclist, and the road is the government and the external environment. The responsibility of a government is to design and build the best possible road. It turns out that when the road is good, good cyclists suddenly appear and want to race on it. In this book, competition and macroeconomics expert, Arturo Bris, provides the analysis of country competitive performance based on 30 years advising countries on this topic. The typical mistakes that countries make are revealed and the pillars necessary in building a competitive economy: economic performance as a necessary condition for prosperity; government efficiency, so the public sector can create the conditions for a productive economy; business efficiency, so companies can create jobs; and infrastructure, both tangible and intangible, so businesses and individuals can operate efficiently. With contemporary case studies throughout, the book provides an illuminating read for politicians, business leaders and students of macroeconomics.

Smart Technologies and Innovations in Design for Control of Technological Processes and Objects: Economy and Production

Smart Technologies and Innovations in Design for Control of Technological Processes and Objects: Economy and Production
Author: Denis B. Solovev
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 807
Release: 2019-05-18
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 3030185532

This book features selected papers presented at The International Science and Technology Conference “FarEastCon”, which took place on October 2–4, 2018 in Vladivostok, Russian Federation. The conference represents an informational platform for accumulating expert opinion on projects and initiatives aimed at the implementation of farsighted scientific research and development; it also allows scientific and practical achievements to be shared with a wide circle of researchers. Sections of the conference are of interest for the broad range of experts involved in developing innovative solutions and organizing events that increase the efficiency of economic and innovative activities.

Human Sustainable Cities

Human Sustainable Cities
Author: Voula Mega
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 323
Release: 2022-08-26
Genre: Science
ISBN: 3031048407

This book argues that accelerating action toward sustainability for and by cities and their inhabitants can make a huge difference to humanity’s endeavor to recover from current crises and build a sustainable future. It sheds light on cutting-edge concepts and actions toward sustainability that can taken by and for cities and with citizens. In this book, author Voula Mega takes the reader on a journey inside and across cities and highlights efforts toward a paradigmatic shift that reconciles human systems with nature. Leadership, education, innovation, trust and citizen empowerment all play a crucial role for the co-invention of a new model that balances human well-being, sustainable prosperity and the future of the planet. Building on robust evidence and inspired by best practices, Human Sustainable Cities offers compelling messages and convincing advice to all stakeholders who are striving to overcome crises, speed up the path toward resilience and preparedness and bounce forward better.

Dry Goods

Dry Goods
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 786
Release: 1917
Genre: Dry-goods trade
ISBN:

Elgar Companion to Regulating AI and Big Data in Emerging Economies

Elgar Companion to Regulating AI and Big Data in Emerging Economies
Author: Mark Findlay
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 285
Release: 2023-12-11
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1785362402

Committed to highlighting the regulatory needs and priorities of emerging economies in the context of AI and big data, this expertly crafted Companion explores the nature and role of regulation in the Global South from a techno-dependent societal perspective. It not only amplifies the unspoken and underrepresented voices in AI and data regulation scholarly discourse, but also provides a novel approach to otherwise recipient economies in an age of digital transformation.

K9 SMART GROOMLOPEDIA

K9 SMART GROOMLOPEDIA
Author: Nichola Moore L.C.G.I
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 254
Release: 2012-07-10
Genre: Pets
ISBN: 1471781917

Learn all about dogs and there care for grooming. This book has been written to help students taking there city andguilds dog grooming.

You Are Not So Smart

You Are Not So Smart
Author: David McRaney
Publisher: Avery
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2012-11-06
Genre: Humor
ISBN: 1592407366

Explains how self-delusion is part of a person's psychological defense system, identifying common misconceptions people have on topics such as caffeine withdrawal, hindsight, and brand loyalty.

Shades of Temptation

Shades of Temptation
Author: Virna DePaul
Publisher: HQN Books
Total Pages: 384
Release: 2012-09-18
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0373776748

When Special Investigations Group detective Carrie Ward is tasked with pursuing a high-profile serial killer, she must join forces with the one man she doesn't trust--Jase Tyler, a reckless senior detective who makes her heart race.