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This book provides a thorough guide to building resilient cities, through the use of smart solutions enabled by information and communication technologies. It introduces innovative approaches for integrating smart solutions into urban resilience planning and offers numerous global case studies to illustrate the benefits of the theories discussed.

 

Against a background of increased natural disasters, pandemics, and climate change, this book answers research questions such as:

 

- Do smart city projects contribute to urban climate resilience?

- What are the indicators of smart city resilience?

- What procedures should be taken to improve efficacy of smart city solutions?

- What are the opportunities and challenges for promoting smart city resilience and for integrating resilience thinking into smart city planning?

 

Including contributions from international experts, explanatory illustrations, and data-driven tables, this book is of interest to researchers, policymakers, and graduate students focused on developing more sustainable, smart, and resilient cities.

 

Resilient Smart Cities: Theoretical and Empirical Insights

Part I: Theoretical Insights.- Introduction: Cities in the Context of Global Change.- Recent Advances in Smart Cities and Urban Resilience and he Need for Resilient Smart Cities.- Smart Cities: Concepts and Underlying Principles.- Resilient Cities: Concepts and Underlying Principles.- Resilient Smart Cities: Theoretical Insights.- Resilient Smart Cities: Diversity of Interpretations and Perspectives by Policymakers and Practitioners.- Resilient Smart cities: Contributions to Pandemic Control and Other Co-benefits.- Resilient Smart Cities: Metrics for Assessing Actual and/or Potential Contributions.- Part II: Empirical Insights From Case Studies.- A Global Typology of Smart Resilient Cities.- IoT, Smart mobility, and Smart City: A Case Study of the YouBike in Taipei.- Envisioning Sustainable and Resilient Petaling Jaya Through Smart City Framework: A Case Study.- Digital Solutions for Resilient Cities: A Critical Assessment of Resilience in Australian Smart City Initiatives.- Climate (Un)smart? Case Study of Smart City Projects in Surat.- The Smart City Initiatives for Resilience: The Case of San Francisco, California, United States.- Toyota Woven City: Contributions to Resilience.- Data-Sharing Approaches for a Resilient and Smart City to Urban Urgent Disaster and Hazard: a Case of Smart City R&D Project in Daegu, South Korea.- Chapter 17.- Chapter 18.- Part III: Synthesis and Conclusions.- Synthetic and Comparative Assessment of the Case Studies Using the Smart City Resilience Assessment Metrics.- Conclusions and Way Forward.