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Today the world's largest economies and corporations trade in data
and its products to generate value in new disruptive markets.
Within these markets vast streams of data are often inaccessible or
untapped and controlled by powerful monopolies. Counter to this
exclusive use of data is a promising world-wide "open-data"
movement, promoting freely accessible information to share, reuse
and redistribute. The provision and application of open data has
enormous potential to transform exclusive, technocratic "smart
cities" into inclusive and responsive "open-cities". This book
argues that those who contribute urban data should benefit from its
production. Like the city itself, the information landscape is a
public asset produced through collective effort, attention, and
resources. People produce data through their engagement with the
city, creating digital footprints through social medial, mobility
applications, and city sensors. By opening up data there is
potential to generate greater value by supporting unforeseen
collaborations, spontaneous urban innovations and solutions, and
improved decision-making insights. Yet achieving more open cities
is made challenging by conflicting desires for urban anonymity,
sociability, privacy and transparency. This book engages with these
issues through a variety of critical perspectives, and presents
strategies, tools and case studies that enable this transformation.
Today the world's largest economies and corporations trade in data
and its products to generate value in new disruptive markets.
Within these markets vast streams of data are often inaccessible or
untapped and controlled by powerful monopolies. Counter to this
exclusive use of data is a promising world-wide "open-data"
movement, promoting freely accessible information to share, reuse
and redistribute. The provision and application of open data has
enormous potential to transform exclusive, technocratic "smart
cities" into inclusive and responsive "open-cities". This book
argues that those who contribute urban data should benefit from its
production. Like the city itself, the information landscape is a
public asset produced through collective effort, attention, and
resources. People produce data through their engagement with the
city, creating digital footprints through social medial, mobility
applications, and city sensors. By opening up data there is
potential to generate greater value by supporting unforeseen
collaborations, spontaneous urban innovations and solutions, and
improved decision-making insights. Yet achieving more open cities
is made challenging by conflicting desires for urban anonymity,
sociability, privacy and transparency. This book engages with these
issues through a variety of critical perspectives, and presents
strategies, tools and case studies that enable this transformation.
This book offers a selection of the best articles presented at the
CUPUM (Computers in Urban Planning and Urban Management)
Conference, held in the second week of July 2017 at the University
of South Australia in Adelaide. It provides a state-of-the-art
overview of the availability and application of planning support
systems (PSS) in the context of smart cities, big data, and urban
futures. Rapid advances in computing, information, communication
and web-based technologies are reaching into all facets of urban
life, creating new and exciting urban futures. With the universal
adoption of networked computing technologies, data generation is
now so massive and all pervasive in society that it offers
unprecedented technological solutions for planning and managing
urban futures. These technologies are essential to effective urban
planning and urban management in an increasingly challenging world,
with socially disruptive changes, more complex and sophisticated
urban lives and the need for resilience to deal with the
possibility of adverse future environmental events and climate
change. The book discusses examples of these technologies which
encompass, inter alia: 'smart urban futures', where cities with
myriad sensors are networked with communication technologies that
enable the city planners to monitor well-being and be responsive to
citizens' needs to allow dynamic management in real-time; PSS that
encompass new hardware, develop new indicators, applications and
innovative ways of facilitating public and community involvement in
the management and planning of urban areas; and urban modelling
that draws on theory and the richness of data from the growing
range of urban sensing and communication technologies to build a
better understanding of urban dynamics, trends and 'what-if'
scenario investigations, and to provide better tools for planning
and policymaking.
This book offers a selection of the best articles presented at the
CUPUM (Computers in Urban Planning and Urban Management)
Conference, held in the second week of July 2017 at the University
of South Australia in Adelaide. It provides a state-of-the-art
overview of the availability and application of planning support
systems (PSS) in the context of smart cities, big data, and urban
futures. Rapid advances in computing, information, communication
and web-based technologies are reaching into all facets of urban
life, creating new and exciting urban futures. With the universal
adoption of networked computing technologies, data generation is
now so massive and all pervasive in society that it offers
unprecedented technological solutions for planning and managing
urban futures. These technologies are essential to effective urban
planning and urban management in an increasingly challenging world,
with socially disruptive changes, more complex and sophisticated
urban lives and the need for resilience to deal with the
possibility of adverse future environmental events and climate
change. The book discusses examples of these technologies which
encompass, inter alia: 'smart urban futures', where cities with
myriad sensors are networked with communication technologies that
enable the city planners to monitor well-being and be responsive to
citizens' needs to allow dynamic management in real-time; PSS that
encompass new hardware, develop new indicators, applications and
innovative ways of facilitating public and community involvement in
the management and planning of urban areas; and urban modelling
that draws on theory and the richness of data from the growing
range of urban sensing and communication technologies to build a
better understanding of urban dynamics, trends and 'what-if'
scenario investigations, and to provide better tools for planning
and policymaking.
Real Estate and GIS focuses on the application of geographic
information systems (GIS) and mapping technologies in the expanding
property and real estate discipline. Whilst a thorough
understanding of location is understood to be fundamental to the
property discipline, real estate professionals and students have
yet to harness the full potential of spatial analysis and mapping
in their work. This book demonstrates the crucial role that
technological advances can play in collecting, organising and
analysing large volumes of real estate data in order to improve
decision-making. International case studies, chapter summaries and
discussion questions make this book the perfect textbook for
property and applied GIS courses. Property and real estate
professionals including surveyors, valuers, property developers,
urban economists and financial analysts will also find this book an
invaluable guide to the understanding and application of GIS
technology within a real estate industry context.
The wide-ranging and lively essays in this volume will appeal to anyone interested in Thomas Hardy's life and work. Subjects covered include Hardy the writer and Hardy the man, individual texts and wider themes, and Hardy's relationships to other artists.
Real Estate and GIS focuses on the application of geographic
information systems (GIS) and mapping technologies in the expanding
property and real estate discipline. Whilst a thorough
understanding of location is understood to be fundamental to the
property discipline, real estate professionals and students have
yet to harness the full potential of spatial analysis and mapping
in their work. This book demonstrates the crucial role that
technological advances can play in collecting, organising and
analysing large volumes of real estate data in order to improve
decision-making. International case studies, chapter summaries and
discussion questions make this book the perfect textbook for
property and applied GIS courses. Property and real estate
professionals including surveyors, valuers, property developers,
urban economists and financial analysts will also find this book an
invaluable guide to the understanding and application of GIS
technology within a real estate industry context.
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