Advances in Urbanism, Smart Cities, and Sustainability

While technology is developing at a fast pace, urban planners and cities are still behind in finding effective ways to use technology to address citizen’s needs. Multiple aspects of sustainable urbanism are brought together in this book, along with advanced technologies and their connections to urban planning and management. It integrates urban studies, smart cities, AI, IoT, remote sensing, and GIS. Highlights include land use planning, spatial planning, and ecosystem-based information to improve economic opportunities. Urban planners and engineers will understand the use of AI in disaster management and the use of GIS in finding suitable landfill sites for sustainable waste management.

Features

• Explains the process of urban heritage conservation, including the process of urban renewal and its regeneration and the role of citizens in urban renewal, planning, and management.
• Includes several case studies highlighting urban environmental problems and challenges in developed and developing countries and the ways for converting urban areas into smart cities.
• Focuses on urban resources, the supply of energy in smart cities, and their proper management practices.
• Introduces the role of remote sensing, GIS, and IoT in making a smart city and meeting sustainable goals.
• Analyzes unique case studies, their challenges and obstacles, and proposes a set of factors to understanding smart city initiatives and projects.

Dr. Uday Chatterjee is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography at Bhatter College, Dantan, India. He got his PhD in Applied Geography at Ravenshaw University, Odisha, India. He has published many research papers in various national and international journals and is the editor of the book entitled ’Harmony with nature: Illusions and Elusions from Geographer’s Perspective in the 21st Century’. His areas of research are Urban Planning, Social Environmental and Human Geography, and Applied Geomorphology. His research work has been funded by the WBPCB, Government of West Bengal, India. He has served as a reviewer for many international journals. He is a Life Member of eight academic societies and ha conducted one FDP sponsored by ICSSR, Government of India.

Dr. Arindam Biswas is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Architecture and Planning, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Roorkee, India. He received his PhD in Urban Planning from the University of Tokyo. He is recipient of ASEM Duo-India Fellowship, DAAD Fellowship, Government of Germany and MEXT Scholarship, Government of Japan. He is presently pursuing research sponsored by different research foundations of Government of India like Department of Science and Technology (DST), Ministry of Environment Forest and Climate. He has published two editorial books and contributed in two book chapters. He has also extensively published research articles on urban infrastructure, inclusive growth, resilience, housing and informality, innovation and regional development.

Dr. Jenia Mukherjee is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur. Her research interest spans across urban studies and environmental history. She received the Australian Leadership Awards Fellowship in 2010 and 2015. She completed her book project: Blue infrastructures: Natural Ecology, Political History and Urban Development in Kolkata (Springer Nature, 2020), and has widely published in peer-reviewed impact factor journals including Environment and Planning E, International Journal of Urban Sustainable Development, Urban Research and Practice, etc. She is Member of the Editorial Advisory Board in Routledge’s Equity, Justice and the Sustainable City series.

Dr. Sushobhan Majumdar is an independent researcher after receiving his doctoral degree from Jadavpur University in 2018. He received his master’s degree from Presidency University and Jadavpur University in Geography and Geo-informatics. He was also engaged in a project focusing on population profile of Kolkata city under the Government of West Bengal. He has published on issues of sprawl, transportation, health issues and microclimate of urban areas in national and international publications. He is currently doing research on the relationship between land use and surface temperature with spatial modeling.