Ict As Potential Catalyst For Sustainable Urban Development

Author : Leo van den Berg
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351756621
Total Pages : 138 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Information and Communications Technology as Potential Catalyst for Sustainable Urban Development written by Leo van den Berg and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-10-05 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title was first published in 2002: The information revolution has deeply influenced the development of Europe’s large cities. They are faced with new opportunities and threats from the information and communication technologies (ICTs) and require strategic policy responses. By examining and comparing five European cities - Eindhoven, Helsinki, Manchester, Marseilles and the Hague - this book sheds light on the impact of ICTs on urban development and considers the consequences for urban management. Case studies show how cities use new technologies to improve the delivery of municipal services, to increase civil participation and local democracy, to help their citizens and businesses make the shift to the information society, and to fight the digital divide . These analyses reveal strategic challenges and potential pitfalls for ICT policy. The book offers a unique international perspective on the impact and potential of information technologies on urban development. The integrative approach - taking economic, social and accessibility issues into account - reveals many new insights.

Author : Leo M. van den Berg
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book ICT as Potential Catalyst for Sustainable Urban Development written by Leo M. van den Berg and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Simon Elias Bibri
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319739816
Total Pages : 660 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Smart Sustainable Cities of the Future written by Simon Elias Bibri and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-02-24 with total page 660 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is intended to help explore the field of smart sustainable cities in its complexity, heterogeneity, and breadth, the many faces of a topical subject of major importance for the future that encompasses so much of modern urban life in an increasingly computerized and urbanized world. Indeed, sustainable urban development is currently at the center of debate in light of several ICT visions becoming achievable and deployable computing paradigms, and shaping the way cities will evolve in the future and thus tackle complex challenges. This book integrates computer science, data science, complexity science, sustainability science, system thinking, and urban planning and design. As such, it contains innovative computer–based and data–analytic research on smart sustainable cities as complex and dynamic systems. It provides applied theoretical contributions fostering a better understanding of such systems and the synergistic relationships between the underlying physical and informational landscapes. It offers contributions pertaining to the ongoing development of computer–based and data science technologies for the processing, analysis, management, modeling, and simulation of big and context data and the associated applicability to urban systems that will advance different aspects of sustainability. This book seeks to explicitly bring together the smart city and sustainable city endeavors, and to focus on big data analytics and context-aware computing specifically. In doing so, it amalgamates the design concepts and planning principles of sustainable urban forms with the novel applications of ICT of ubiquitous computing to primarily advance sustainability. Its strength lies in combining big data and context–aware technologies and their novel applications for the sheer purpose of harnessing and leveraging the disruptive and synergetic effects of ICT on forms of city planning that are required for future forms of sustainable development. This is because the effects of such technologies reinforce one another as to their efforts for transforming urban life in a sustainable way by integrating data–centric and context–aware solutions for enhancing urban systems and facilitating coordination among urban domains. This timely and comprehensive book is aimed at a wide audience across science, academia industry, and policymaking. It provides the necessary material to inform relevant research communities of the state–of–the–art research and the latest development in the area of smart sustainable urban development, as well as a valuable reference for planners, designers, strategists, and ICT experts who are working towards the development and implementation of smart sustainable cities based on big data analytics and context–aware computing.

Author : Leo van den Berg
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351881477
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Student City written by Leo van den Berg and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-05-15 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Student communities are without doubt a strategic resource for urban development and students are the citizens and the high-skilled working class of tomorrow. They are seen as an 'invisible population' with little say in local policy and decision-making. Co-operation between educational institutions and city planners is often missing and cities tend to neglect the universities' foreign relations. This volume argues that the importance of human capital in the competitiveness of cities demands pro-active, integral city policies targeting this community. Bringing together nine case studies of European cities (Rotterdam, Utrecht, Eindhoven, Munich, Lyon, Lille, Venice, Birmingham and Helsinki), it puts forward a comprehensive strategic plan of action, aiming at the integration of student communities in urban development. The book analyses the essential characteristics of the relationship between students and their host communities, as well as the role of higher education institutions and other actors in building the 'student friendly' city.

Author : James Wilsdon
Publisher : Earthscan
ISBN 13 : 1849773823
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Digital Futures written by James Wilsdon and published by Earthscan. This book was released on 2001 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beyond the hype about dot-coms, WAP phones and dot-com entrepreneurs, what impacts will e-commerce have on society? How will it affect jobs and local communities? What will it mean for the environment - for energy use, transport and the future shape of our cities? How can we ensure that everyone enjoys the benefits of the new digital technologies? This is a groundbreaking exploration of the social and environmental impacts and opportunities of the new economy. It brings together the leading thinkers and visionaries from the worlds of policy, business and academia in an insightful, vigorous and at times controversial examination of the impact e-commerce will have on the way we live and work, and on the environment on which we all depend.

Author : Mia Consalvo
Publisher : Peter Lang
ISBN 13 : 9780820468402
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Internet Research Annual written by Mia Consalvo and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2004 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Internet Research Annual offers a selection of the best work presented at the first three conferences of the Association of Internet Researchers, and provides a useful overview of the cutting-edge in Internet studies. Established scholars and new researchers address issues such as communities on/off line, the Internet as a methodological tool and space for research, and the places, politics, and policies of the Internet, creating a volume that comprehensively covers the field of Internet research. Also included are a brief history of the organization, a list of previously published papers from the conferences, and works by several of the keynote speakers including Phil Agre, Barbara Warnick, Bill Dutton, Sheizaf Rafaeli, Susan Herring, Robin Mansell, and much more.

Author : Silva, Carlos Nunes
Publisher : IGI Global
ISBN 13 : 1615209301
Total Pages : 546 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Handbook of Research on E-Planning: ICTs for Urban Development and Monitoring written by Silva, Carlos Nunes and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2010-05-31 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book provides relevant theoretical perspectives on the use of ICT in Urban Planning as well as an updated account of the most recent developments in the practice of e-planning in different regions of the world"--Provided by publisher.

Author : International Development Research Centre (Canada)
Publisher : IDRC
ISBN 13 : 1552502163
Total Pages : 474 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cities Farming for the Future written by International Development Research Centre (Canada) and published by IDRC. This book was released on 2014-05-14 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Neil Selwyn
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134248962
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Adult Learning in the Digital Age written by Neil Selwyn and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2006-03-22 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This engaging book sheds light on the ways in which adults in the twenty-first century interact with technology in different learning environments. Based on one of the first large-scale academic research projects in this area, the authors present their findings and offer practical recommendations for the use of new technology in a learning society. They invite debate on: why ICTs are believed to be capable of affecting positive change in adult learning the drawbacks and limits of ICT in adult education what makes a lifelong learner the wider social, economic, cultural and political realities of the information age and the learning society. Adult Learning addresses key questions and provides a sound empirical foundation to the existing debate, highlighting the complex realities of the learning society and e-learning rhetoric. It tells the story of those who are excluded from the learning society, and offers a set of strong recommendations for practitioners, policy-makers, and politicians, as well as researchers and students.

Author : Zoltan J. Acs
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9783540437222
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Emergence of the Knowledge Economy written by Zoltan J. Acs and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2002-08-06 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Knowledge has in recent years become a key driver for growth of regions and nations. This volume empirically investigates the emergence of the knowledge economy in the late 20th century from a regional point of view. It first deals with the theoretical background for understanding the knowledge economy, with knowledge spillovers and development externalities. It then examines aspects of the relationship between knowledge inputs and innovative outputs in the information, computer and telecommunications sector (ICT) of the economy at the regional level. Case studies focusing on a wide variety of sectors, countries and regions finally illustrate important regional innovation issues.