Smart City Blueprint: Policy, Community, Futures

The smart city movement, during the last decade and a half, advocated the built environment and digital technology convergence with the backing of institutional capital and government support. The commitment of a significant number of local governments across the globe, in terms of official smart city policies and initiatives, along with the constant push of global technology giants, has reinforced the popularity of this movement. This two-volume treatment on smart cities thoroughly explores and sheds light on the prominent elements of the smart city phenomenon and generates a smart city blueprint.

The first volume, with its 12 chapters, provides a sound understanding on the key foundations and growth directions of smart city frameworks, technologies, and platforms, with theoretical expansions, practical implications, and real-world case study lessons. The second companion volume offers sophisticated perspectives on the key foundations and directions of smart city policies, communities, and urban futures, with theoretical expansions, practical implications, and real-world case study lessons.

These volumes offer an invaluable reference source for urban policymakers, managers, planners, practitioners, and many others, particularly to benefit from it when tackling key urban and societal issues and planning for and delivering smart city solutions. Moreover, the book is also a rich and important repository for scholars and research and undergraduate students.

智慧城市運動在過去十五年間，以機構資本和政府支持為後盾，倡導建築環境和數位科技的融合。全球眾多地方政府的承諾，以及全球科技巨頭的持續推動，加強了這一運動的受歡迎程度。這本兩卷本的智慧城市著作徹底探索並闡明了智慧城市現象的重要元素，並提供了智慧城市藍圖。

第一卷共有12章，深入介紹智慧城市框架、技術和平台的關鍵基礎和發展方向，並提供理論擴展、實際影響和實際案例研究的教訓。第二卷則提供了對智慧城市政策、社區和城市未來的關鍵基礎和發展方向的精緻觀點，同樣提供理論擴展、實際影響和實際案例研究的教訓。

這些著作對城市政策制定者、管理者、規劃者、從業人員和其他許多人來說，是一個寶貴的參考資料來源，特別是在解決關鍵的城市和社會問題，以及規劃和提供智慧城市解決方案時。此外，這本書也是學者、研究人員和大學本科生的重要資料庫。

Tan Yigitcanlar is an eminent Australian researcher and author with international recognition and impact in the field of smart and sustainable city development. He is a Professor of Urban Studies and Planning at the School of Architecture and Built Environment, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia.

Tan Yigitcanlar是一位傑出的澳大利亞研究者和作者，在智慧和可持續城市發展領域享有國際認可和影響力。他是澳大利亞昆士蘭科技大學建築與環境學院城市研究和規劃學教授，位於澳大利亞布里斯班。