Smart sustainable cities roadmap: Readiness for transformation towards urban sustainability

Roadmap for Autonomous Cities: Sustainable Transformation of Urban Spaces

Despite the inherent relationship between cars and their physical urban surroundings, many cities are hesitant to embrace the impact of autonomous mobility on urban design. Industry leaders envision autonomous vehicles soon penetrating global markets, although the relationship between autonomous vehicles and their urban context has been poorly discussed. Witnessing rapid technological advanceme...

Towards a Design of Sustainable Cities: Incorporating Sustainability Indicators in Urban Planning

Urban planning is closely related both, to decision making processes as well as to the establishment of a further urban envisioning. Therefore, it is understood as a multidimensional and multipurpose managed change of the natural and built environment. [C.Carmona, 2003] Hence urban planning is a key element for the creation of sustainable cities by its influence on the production of quality spa...

Orchestrating infrastructure for sustainable Smart Cities

Urban Landscapes and Sustainable Cities

Ecological research targeting sustainable urban landscapes needs to include findings and methods from many lines of ecological research, such as the link between biodiversity and ecosystem function, the role of humans in ecosystems, landscape connectivity, and resilience. This paper reviews and highlights the importance of these issues for sustainable use of ecosystem services, which is argued ...

Smart Cities, Big Data, and Sustainability Union

Media convergence has changed relationships between existing technologies, industries, markets, and audiences. Smart cities are seen as the logical outcome of media convergence. Big Data form the basis and the output of smart technologies. In the last twenty years, there has been much discussion on smart cities, big data, and the need for sustainability in technological endeavors. This article ...