While technology is developing at a fast pace, urban planners and cities are still behind in finding effective ways to use technology to address citizen's needs. Multiple aspects of sustainable urbanism are brought together in this book, along with advanced technologies and their connections to urban planning and management. It integrates urban studies, smart cities, AI, IoT, remote sensing, and GIS. Highlights include land use planning, spatial planning, and ecosystem-based information to improve economic opportunities. Urban planners and engineers will understand the use of AI in disaster management and the use of GIS in finding suitable landfill sites for sustainable waste management. Features Explains the process of urban heritage conservation, including the process of urban renewal and its regeneration and the role of citizens in urban renewal, planning, and management. Includes several case studies highlighting urban environmental problems and challenges in developed and developing countries and the ways for converting urban areas into smart cities. Focuses on urban resources, the supply of energy in smart cities, and their proper management practices. Introduces the role of remote sensing, GIS, and IoT in making a smart city and meeting sustainable goals. Analyzes unique case studies, their challenges and obstacles, and proposes a set of factors to understanding smart city initiatives and projects.

1 Investigates the interdisciplinary approach in urbanism including urban ecology, ecosystem services, sustainable landscapes, and advanced geographical systems. 2 Analyses unique case studies of rapid urbanization, from local to national scale, in countries like India, Sri Lanka, China, Bangladesh, Malaysia, and Indonesia, and their global impact. 3 Examine the use of GIS and spatial statistics in analyzing urban sprawl and the massive amount of data gathered by every operational activity of municipalities. 4 Focuses on the holistic perspective of sustainable urbanism and the harmony in man - nature relationship the achieve sustainable development 5 Covers a wide range of issues manifested in urban areas with economic, societal, and environmental implications contributed by leading scholars in Global South