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1 online resource |
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Front Cover -- Sustainable Mega City Communities -- Copyright -- Contents -- Contributors -- Section 1 -- Introduction -- Section 2 -- Public policy- the international perspective: overview -- 1 -- Government: plans, goals, and strategies to be smart and healthy communities -- Getting started -- Air transportation: an example of trust in action -- Trust defined -- Ten levers of trust enablement -- Putting it all together: the smart city trust framework -- International policies that create programs -- How smart districts can drive urban innovation -- Introduction -- The basics of consumption-based greenhouse gas emissions -- Key CBEI insights -- 2 -- The economics of sustainable development -- A "whole systems" approach to cost/benefit analysis and value creation -- Sustainable system versus linear approach -- Sustainable development costs more: perception versus perspective -- Terramor Village by Rancho Mission Viejo/DMB, Ladera Ranch, California -- Carsten Crossings by the Grupe Company, Whitney Ranch, California -- Shea Homes, Scripps Highlands, San Diego, California -- Examples of whole systems thinking with integrated solutions -- Life cycle assessment tools -- Eco-efficiencies and eco-effectiveness -- Quantifying the green premium -- Realizing the sustainability premium -- Putting it all together -- Financial wave in sustainability -- Regulatory and legislative wave in sustainability -- The push pull of regulation versus innovation -- References -- 3 -- Systems integrated mass transit to walking paths -- 4 -- Better security and protection for people and ecological systems: integrated approaches for decoupling urban gr ... -- Overview -- Need for reversing drivers of urban emissions in megacities -- Benchmarked levels of sustainability performances of megacities -- Achieving decoupling through renewable energy penetration -- References |
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5 -- Future needs from the SMC plans -- looking at Jiaxing, China: 40 years' development from numbers -- Case 1 -- Body parts -- Case 2 -- Body parts -- Case 3 -- Body parts -- Case 4 -- Body parts -- Local government partnerships for innovation: the case of Logan, Australia -- City studios Logan partnering with universities and high schools -- INNOV8 Logan-Logan City, Australia has a virtual innovation hub -- Council's internal collaborative network: a new mindset for staff -- What's next -- China -- The Greater Bay Area Hong Kong development plan -- Key development areas -- Introduction -- Chinese cities need a change -- The introduction of smart green city -- Urban layout -- Public service -- Environment monitoring -- Green space and building -- Energy-related policy and planning -- Garbage classification and sewage treatment -- The method to measure the efficiency of urban planning -- Introduction of Data Envelopment Analysis model -- Sample cities selection -- Indicators selection -- The statistics resources -- DEA result analysis -- The comparison of technical efficiencies between Beijing and Singapore -- Applied model: DEA-CCR-TE -- The comparison of pure technical efficiency between Beijing and Singapore -- Applied model: DEA-BCC-PTE -- The comparison of scale efficiencies between Beijing and Singapore -- Applied model: DEA-BCC-SE -- Conclusion -- The prospect of smart green city in China -- Smart green agglomeration -- The driving force from advanced Mobile Internet industry -- The incentive from the political achievement evaluation system -- Further reading -- 6 -- Future needs from the Smart Mega City (SMC) plans-smart green city-the case of Istanbul -- Overview -- Smart city -- Smart green city -- Istanbul green smart city projects -- Istanbul: not only smart but also a creative city -- Conclusion -- References |
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Section 3 -- Economic options:back to the future:in China, the future is now -- 7 -- Finance, economics, and energy: SMC green development -- Outline placeholder -- Introduction -- Conclusion -- References -- bksec2_1 -- Policy challenges -- Cities taking the lead -- Tackling energy issues with collaborative cohorts -- Further reading -- 8 -- Circular economy: the next economics -- Overview -- Introduction -- Electric cars today: then all solar-powered cars is the next economics -- Why economics needs to be circular -- Circular economics -- The circular economy -- Technical and biological cycles -- Origins of the circular economy -- The new economic paradigm: circular economics -- Circular economy: from theory into practice -- The European Union enacted circular economy -- Circular economies in action -- Product and process design -- Circular economy and waste management strategies -- Standards for secondary raw materials -- European funds for innovation and skills development -- Simplify to innovate -- The European Union has already changed -- The "Circular Economy" in Europe -- Case from EU: Italy -- Conclusion -- 9 -- Planning for more sustainable development -- Overview -- Why are mega cities developing sustainable plans? -- Baselining and benchmarking -- Baselining -- Benchmark -- Outreach and engagement -- Drafting and implementation -- Case studies -- City of Milwaukee -- Implementation -- City of Los Angeles -- Implementation -- Adopt the pLAn -- 10 -- Global and international policies: UN Paris Accord UN G19 and G20 -- Background -- Predictions -- Initiatives that cannot be measured if not started -- There will be many more interdepartmental smart city RFIs and RFPs -- Public-private partnerships will diversify and engage the long tail of SMBs -- Cities and vendors will lead with the needs of citizens |
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Innovation will go deeper in cities, beyond smart city groups and into all departments -- There will be pushback on smart cities conferences from vendors and cities -- Artificial Intelligence (AI) will prevail, making actionable the treasure trove of data cities have available -- "Off the shelf" solutions will cater to small and midsize cities -- Cities and vendors will be more accountable for privacy than ever before -- 2019 will be the year of replicable, scalable smart city innovations -- Section 4 -- Globalism and regionalism: overview -- 11 -- Improving interconnectivity with multimodal transportation -- Overview -- Multimodal transportation -- Local transportation -- First/last mile solutions -- Regional connectivity -- Smart cards and mobile apps -- Case Studies -- New Orleans -- City of Los Angeles -- 12 -- Leading historical cities -- Overview -- Case in point: Yuneshima island in resort Osaka city -- Overview -- References -- 13 -- Tokyo sustainable megacity: robust governance to maximize synergies -- Introduction -- Tokyo metropolitan government -- Good governance versus virtue signaling -- Good governance to manage multiple challenges -- TMG in comparative perspective -- The drivers for megacity sustainability -- Adaptation and mitigation synergies -- The global challenge -- Integrated resilience and the Japanese megacity paradigm -- Section 5 -- Conclusion -- 14 -- USA yesterday, today, and next-the near future -- Background -- Research results with 18 published books -- Case from Asia: China -- The circular economy opportunity for urban and industrial innovation in China -- Matter of priorities -- References -- Index -- Back Cover |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on July 07, 2021) |
| Subject |
Sustainable urban development.
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Urban ecology (Sociology)
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Megacities.
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City planning -- Environmental aspects
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urban environments.
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megalopolises.
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City planning -- Environmental aspects
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Megacities
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Sustainable urban development
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Urban ecology (Sociology)
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Clark, Woodrow W., author.
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| ISBN |
0128187948 |
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9780128187944 |
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