Making Less Vulnerable Cities: Resilience as a New Paradigm of Smart Planning

Big data, smart cities and city planning

I define big data with respect to its size but pay particular attention to the fact that the data I am referring to is urban data, that is, data for cities that are invariably tagged to space and time. I argue that this sort of data are largely being streamed from sensors, and this represents a sea change in the kinds of data that we have about what happens where and when in cities. I describe ...

Predictive Trip Planning - Smart Routing in Smart Cities

Smart route planning gathers increasing interest as cities become crowded and jammed. We present a system for individual trip planning that incorporates future tra c hazards in routing. Future tra c conditions are computed by a Spatio-Temporal Random Field based on a stream of sensor readings. In addition, our approach estimates tra c flow in areas with low sensor coverage using a Gaussian Proc...

International Challenges of Smart Cities

The world’s urban population is expected to be proliferated due to raised use of energy, increased air pollution, increasing traffic in urban areas, increasing usage of food, and reduced food production. There are numerous available solutions in this field, but achieving smart cities is one the furthermost effective ways. Smart city has improved ICT infrastructure as a versatile, reliable, chan...

Treatment Planning: A New Paradigm

Editorial The introduction and success of dental implants has had positive results for many patients but has also caused turmoil in the treatment planning arena. The advent of implants as a predictable clinical treatment modality has modified the traditional endodontic treatment planning paradigm. Previously, patients having a tooth at risk were evaluated by a generalist or sent to an endodon-t...

February 2006 City Design - a New Planning Paradigm ? Philipp Rode Cities Programme London School of Economics