Includes bibliographical references and index.

The term "smart city" defines the new urban environment, one that is designed for performance through information and communication technologies. Given that the majority of people across the world will live in urban environments within the next few decades, it's not surprising that massive effort and investment is being placed into efforts to develop strategies and plans for achieving "smart" urban growth. Building Smart Cities: Analytics, ICT, and Design Thinking explains the technology and a methodology known as design thinking for building smart cities. Information and communications technologies form the backbone of smart cities. A comprehensive and robust data analytics program enables the right choices to be made in building these cities. Design thinking helps to create smart cities that are both livable and able to evolve. This book examines all of these components in the context of smart city development and shows how to use them in an integrated manner. Using the principles of design thinking to reframe the problems of the smart city and capture the real needs of people living in a highly efficient urban environment, the book helps city planners and technologists through the following: Presentation of the relevant technologies required for coordinated, efficient cities Exploration of the latent needs of community stakeholders in a culturally appropriate context Discussion of the tested approaches to ideation, design, prototyping, and building or retrofitting smart cities Proposal of a model for a viable smart city project The smart city vision that we can create an optimized society through technology is hypothetical at best and reflects the failed repetition through the ages of equating scientific progress with positive social change. Up until now, despite our best hopes and efforts, technology has yet to bring an end to scarcity or suffering. Technical innovation, instead, can and should be directed in the service of our shared cultural values, especially within the rapidly growing urban milieu. In Building Smart Cities: Analytics, ICT, and Design Thinking , the author discusses the need to focus on creating human-centered approaches to our cities that integrate our human needs and technology to meet our economic, environmental, and existential needs. The book shows how this approach can lead to innovative, livable urban environments that are realizable, practical, and economically and environmentally sustainable.

Designing Smart Cities For Human Needs The Imperative for Smart Cities A New Vision What Is Smart? A Sensitive Relationship What Do We Really Want from the Smart City? Managing the Shift Designing for People Technology, Innovation, and the Problem with People Chapter Goal Are We Really Ready for Technology Advancement? People and Technology: Collision or Cooperation? Sensors to Services The Surprisingly Familiar Sensor The Internet of Things A New Perspective on Smart Cities Chapter Goal The Position for Moving Forward What's the Holdup? Smart City Design Goals A Usable World Why Design Thinking? Chapter Goal Thinking About Thinking So, What About Merging? Design Thinking Applied Chapter Goal A Method, Not Magic Ways That Design Thinking Has Been Used in Cities When Urban Design Rises Above Imposition Assessing the Usefulness of Design Thinking Section 1 Key Points A Review Of Smart City Technologies Smart City Planning and Management Chapter Goal Smart Cities and Their Role in the Creation of a National Identity A New Role for City Government Balancing the Forces The Politics of Artifacts The Fundamentals of Smart Infrastructure Chapter Goal The Energy Opportunity The Building Opportunity Orchestrating Our Lives, Not Just Our Buildings The Bonds of Energy and Water Full Convergence The Urban Life Force Chapter Goal Transportation as Animating Principle Innovative Transportation Services Transportation Connects Where Do We Go Now? Section 2 Key Points Data Analytics And The Smart Urban Dweller Smart City Analytics Chapter Goal The Vocabulary of Analytics Analytical Models The Analytics of Things The Analytical Intersection of Human and Machine Analytics as a Service Technology, Social Inclusion, and the Wisdom of the Urban Community Chapter Goal Technology in Social Inclusion People as Sensors From Social Inclusion to Social Influence Crowdsourcing for a Smarter City Information Security and Privacy Chapter Goal Drawing the Lines Security Deserves an Important Place in Design Privacy Begins in the Home The Role of Open Data in the Privacy Discussion Putting This into Practice Section 3 Key Points Designing Innovation Hacking the City Chapter Goal Designing Inspiration Sociospatial Perspectives Smart Cities: Problem or Promise? Chapter Goal Forging a Partnership Create an Ecosystem Crossing the Chasm of Fear How Design Thinking Can Work for the Smart City So, You Want to Design a Smarter City? Section 4 Key Points