Smart Economy In Smart African Cities

Author : Gora Mboup,Banji Oyelaran-Oyeyinka
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : SOCIAL SCIENCE
ISBN : 9811334722

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Smart Economy in Smart African Cities by Gora Mboup,Banji Oyelaran-Oyeyinka Pdf

This book highlights the use of information and communication technology (ICT) infrastructures in order to develop smart cities and produce smart economies in Africa. It discusses a robust set of concepts, including smart planning, smart infrastructure development, smart economic development, smart environmental sustainability, smart social development, resilience, and smart peace and security in several African cities. By drawing on the accumulated knowledge on various conditions that make cities smart, green, livable and healthy, it helps in the planning, design and management of African urbanization. In turn, it fosters the development of e-commerce, e-education, e-governance, etc. The rapid development of ICT infrastructures facilitates the creation of smart economies in digitally served cities and towns through smart urban planning, smart infrastructures, smart land tenure and smart urban policies. In the long term, this can reduce emissions of CO2, promote the creation of low carbon cities, reduce land degradation and promote biodiversity.

Author : Gora Mboup,Banji Oyelaran-Oyeyinka
Publisher : Springer
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2019-02-21
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789811334719

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Smart Economy in Smart African Cities by Gora Mboup,Banji Oyelaran-Oyeyinka Pdf

This book highlights the use of information and communication technology (ICT) infrastructures in order to develop smart cities and produce smart economies in Africa. It discusses a robust set of concepts, including smart planning, smart infrastructure development, smart economic development, smart environmental sustainability, smart social development, resilience, and smart peace and security in several African cities. By drawing on the accumulated knowledge on various conditions that make cities smart, green, livable and healthy, it helps in the planning, design and management of African urbanization. In turn, it fosters the development of e-commerce, e-education, e-governance, etc. The rapid development of ICT infrastructures facilitates the creation of smart economies in digitally served cities and towns through smart urban planning, smart infrastructures, smart land tenure and smart urban policies. In the long term, this can reduce emissions of CO2, promote the creation of low carbon cities, reduce land degradation and promote biodiversity.

Author : T. M. Vinod Kumar
Publisher : Springer
Page : 1086 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2016-08-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789811016103

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Smart Economy in Smart Cities by T. M. Vinod Kumar Pdf

The present book highlights studies that show how smart cities promote urban economic development. The book surveys the state of the art of Smart City Economic Development through a literature survey. The book uses 13 in depth city research case studies in 10 countries such as the North America, Europe, Africa and Asia to explain how a smart economy changes the urban spatial system and vice versa. This book focuses on exploratory city studies in different countries, which investigate how urban spatial systems adapt to the specific needs of smart urban economy. The theory of smart city economic development is not yet entirely understood and applied in metropolitan regional plans. Smart urban economies are largely the result of the influence of ICT applications on all aspects of urban economy, which in turn changes the land-use system. It points out that the dynamics of smart city GDP creation takes ‘different paths,’ which need further empirical study, hypothesis testing and mathematical modelling. Although there are hypotheses on how smart cities generate wealth and social benefits for nations, there are no significant empirical studies available on how they generate urban economic development through urban spatial adaptation. This book with 13 cities research studies is one attempt to fill in the gap in knowledge base.

Author : Charles Chavunduka,Walter Timo De Vries,Pamela Duran Diaz
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2022-04-24
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781000578744

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Sustainable and Smart Spatial Planning in Africa by Charles Chavunduka,Walter Timo De Vries,Pamela Duran Diaz Pdf

This book clarifies the smart city concept that is gaining application in Sub – Saharan Africa. It shows how the smart concept can be used to address problems that would be difficult and more expensive to solve using traditional techniques such as employment creation. This is done through elaboration of the African interpretation of smartness, using tools for smart solid waste management, e-governance, smart energy, and smart infrastructure. The case studies selected, and each chapter explain a different dimension of the smart city concept and offer innovative solutions to problems of rapid urbanization. It lays the theoretical foundation for further research on smart cities and rural areas in Africa.

Author : Oliver Gassmann,Jonas Böhm,Maximilian Palmié
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2019-06-14
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781787696136

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Smart Cities by Oliver Gassmann,Jonas Böhm,Maximilian Palmié Pdf

Transforming cities through digital innovations is becoming an imperative for every city. However, city ecosystems widely struggle to start, manage and execute the transformation. This book aims to give a comprehensive overview of all facets of the Smart City transformation and provides concrete tools, checklists, and guiding frameworks.

Author : Anthony M. Townsend
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2013-10-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780393241532

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Smart Cities: Big Data, Civic Hackers, and the Quest for a New Utopia by Anthony M. Townsend Pdf

An unflinching look at the aspiring city-builders of our smart, mobile, connected future. From Beijing to Boston, cities are deploying smart technology—sensors embedded in streets and subways, Wi-Fi broadcast airports and green spaces—to address the basic challenges faced by massive, interconnected metropolitan centers. In Smart Cities, Anthony M. Townsend documents this emerging futuristic landscape while considering the motivations, aspirations, and shortcomings of the key actors—entrepreneurs, mayors, philanthropists, and software developers—at work in shaping the new urban frontier.

Author : Netexplo (France),Pisani, Francis,UNESCO
Publisher : UNESCO Publishing
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2020-09-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789231003769

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Smart About Cities by Netexplo (France),Pisani, Francis,UNESCO Pdf

Author : Leonidas Anthopoulos
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2019-06-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780128161692

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Smart City Emergence by Leonidas Anthopoulos Pdf

Smart City Emergence: Cases from Around the World analyzes how smart cities are currently being conceptualized and implemented, examining the theoretical underpinnings and technologies that connect theory with tangible practice achievements. Using numerous cities from different regions around the globe, the book compares how smart cities of different sizes are evolving in different countries and continents. In addition, it examines the challenges cities face as they adopt the smart city concept, separating fact from fiction, with insights from scholars, government officials and vendors currently involved in smart city implementation. Utilizes a sound and systematic research methodology Includes a review of the latest research developments Contains, in each chapter, a brief summary of the case, an illustration of the theoretical context that lies behind the case, the case study itself, and conclusions showing learned outcomes Examines smart cities in relation to climate change, sustainability, natural disasters and community resiliency

Author : Mohamed Ben Ahmed,Anouar Abdelhakim Boudhir,Ali Younes
Publisher : Springer
Page : 1234 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2019-02-06
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9783030111960

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Innovations in Smart Cities Applications Edition 2 by Mohamed Ben Ahmed,Anouar Abdelhakim Boudhir,Ali Younes Pdf

This book highlights cutting-edge research presented at the third installment of the International Conference on Smart City Applications (SCA2018), held in Tétouan, Morocco on October 10–11, 2018. It presents original research results, new ideas, and practical lessons learned that touch on all aspects of smart city applications. The respective papers share new and highly original results by leading experts on IoT, Big Data, and Cloud technologies, and address a broad range of key challenges in smart cities, including Smart Education and Intelligent Learning Systems, Smart Healthcare, Smart Building and Home Automation, Smart Environment and Smart Agriculture, Smart Economy and Digital Business, and Information Technologies and Computer Science, among others. In addition, various novel proposals regarding smart cities are discussed. Gathering peer-reviewed chapters written by prominent researchers from around the globe, the book offers an invaluable instructional and research tool for courses on computer and urban sciences; students and practitioners in computer science, information science, technology studies and urban management studies will find it particularly useful. Further, the book is an excellent reference guide for professionals and researchers working in mobility, education, governance, energy, the environment and computer sciences.

Author : Arpan Kumar Kar,M P Gupta,P. Vigneswara Ilavarasan,Yogesh K. Dwivedi
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2017-07-28
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781351652117

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Advances in Smart Cities by Arpan Kumar Kar,M P Gupta,P. Vigneswara Ilavarasan,Yogesh K. Dwivedi Pdf

This is an edited book based on the selected submissions made to the conference titled "International Conference in Smart Cities". The project provides an innovative and new approach to holistic management of cities physical, socio-economic, environmental, transportation and political assets across all domains, typically supported by ICT and open data.

Author : Prince K. Guma
Publisher : Eburon Uitgeverij B.V.
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2021-01-03
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789463013253

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Rethinking Smart Urbanism by Prince K. Guma Pdf

Rethinking Smart Urbanism is an empirical exploration of the multiple ways in which cities and infrastructures are constructed and reconstructed through ICT innovation and appropriation. Drawing on the case of Kenya’s capital, Nairobi, the study explains existing infrastructure constellations through countervailing processes and rationalities in the context of splintered urbanism. In doing so, the study examines the relationship between urban plans and digital infrastructure development, place-based contexts that shape digital infrastructures, and the extent to which these infrastructures facilitate utility companies’ ambitions of extending centralized networks to new territories. It draws on the theoretical and empirical base of urban and infrastructure studies, particularly in the fields of smart urbanism, postcolonial urbanism, and Science and Technology Studies. Methodologically, the study adopts a qualitative research design and presents in-depth case studies that combine ethnographic methods with a thorough investigation of written sources. Ultimately, it is hoped to enhance our understanding of urban and digital possibilities, and add new insights to debates on technology and urbanity in Africa and beyond.

Author : Zaheer Allam
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3030594491

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The Rise of Autonomous Smart Cities by Zaheer Allam Pdf

This book introduces the concept of the 'autonomous city'- a concept that has been developed from the 'smart cities' model and is based on a city's ability to gather data then taking it one step further. The digital revolution has brought about numerous changes in the urban realm, along with the understanding that technology can aid in increasing the performance and efficiency of urban areas. This technology has given rise to a wealth of data allowing urban leaders to respond better to crisis and craft policies that increase the liveability of urban areas. The 'autonomous city' explores the possibility of urban areas evolving from the dimension of data gathering to that of action response - so a city able to collect data and render real time decisions to self-manage a variety of functions based on its interpretation of that data. The book discusses how this could lead to the automation of select urban dimensions for increased efficiency and performance, but also details how such a process would require careful consideration when put into practice. This book will be a valuable resource for scholars and students across Urban Planning, Sustainability and STS, as well as practitioners and policy makers involved in the development of urban life. Zaheer Allam is based in Mauritius and works as an urban strategist on urban regenerative policies in African cities. He is the African Representative of the International Society of Biourbanism (ISB) and a member of the Advisory Circle of the International Federation of Landscape Architects (IFLA). For his contributions to society, he was elevated, by the President of Mauritius, to the rank of Officer of the Order of the Star and Key of the Indian Ocean (OSK); the highest distinct order of Merit in Mauritius.

Author : T.M. Vinod Kumar
Publisher : Springer
Page : 1096 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2018-05-31
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789811085888

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Smart Metropolitan Regional Development by T.M. Vinod Kumar Pdf

This book discusses the concept and practice of a smart metropolitan region, and how smart cities promote healthy economic and spatial development. It highlights how smart metropolitan regional development can energize, reorganize and transform the legacy economy into a smart economy; how it can help embrace Information and Communications Technology (ICT); and how it can foster a shared economy. In addition, it outlines how the five pillars of the third industrial revolution can be achieved by smart communities. In addition, the book draws on 16 in-depth city case studies from ten countries to explore the state of the art regarding the smart economy in smart cities – and to apply the lessons learned to shape smart metropolitan economic and spatial development.

Author : Ayodeji E. Oke,Seyi S. Stephen,Clinton Ohis Aigbavboa,Deji Rufus Ogunsemi,Isaac Olaniyi Aje
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2022-04-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781803824574

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Smart Cities by Ayodeji E. Oke,Seyi S. Stephen,Clinton Ohis Aigbavboa,Deji Rufus Ogunsemi,Isaac Olaniyi Aje Pdf

Professionals in the construction industry must respond quickly to meet the increasing pressures of heightened urban migration, and provide sustainable alternatives to resource scarcity in established cities – Smart Cities offers solutions to the demands of rising urban populations.

Author : Somik Vinay Lall,J. Vernon Henderson,Anthony J. Venables
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2017-02-09
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781464810459

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Africa's Cities by Somik Vinay Lall,J. Vernon Henderson,Anthony J. Venables Pdf

Cities in Sub-Saharan Africa are experiencing rapid population growth. Yet their economic growth has not kept pace. Why? One factor might be low capital investment, due in part to Africa’s relative poverty: Other regions have reached similar stages of urbanization at higher per capita GDP. This study, however, identifies a deeper reason: African cities are closed to the world. Compared with other developing cities, cities in Africa produce few goods and services for trade on regional and international markets To grow economically as they are growing in size, Africa’s cities must open their doors to the world. They need to specialize in manufacturing, along with other regionally and globally tradable goods and services. And to attract global investment in tradables production, cities must develop scale economies, which are associated with successful urban economic development in other regions. Such scale economies can arise in Africa, and they will—if city and country leaders make concerted efforts to bring agglomeration effects to urban areas. Today, potential urban investors and entrepreneurs look at Africa and see crowded, disconnected, and costly cities. Such cities inspire low expectations for the scale of urban production and for returns on invested capital. How can these cities become economically dense—not merely crowded? How can they acquire efficient connections? And how can they draw firms and skilled workers with a more affordable, livable urban environment? From a policy standpoint, the answer must be to address the structural problems affecting African cities. Foremost among these problems are institutional and regulatory constraints that misallocate land and labor, fragment physical development, and limit productivity. As long as African cities lack functioning land markets and regulations and early, coordinated infrastructure investments, they will remain local cities: closed to regional and global markets, trapped into producing only locally traded goods and services, and limited in their economic growth.