Age of Intelligent Cities

<p>This book concludes a trilogy that began with <i>Intelligent Cities: Innovation Knowledge Systems and digital spaces </i>(Routledge 2002) and <i>Intelligent Cities and Globalisation of Innovation Networks </i>(Routledge 2008). Together these books examine intelligent cities as environments of innovation and collaborative problem-solving. In this final book the focus is on planning strategy and governance of intelligent cities. </p><p>Divided into three parts each section elaborates upon complementary aspects of intelligent city strategy and planning. Part I is about the drivers and architectures of the spatial intelligence of cities while Part II turns to planning processes and discusses top-down and bottom-up planning for intelligent cities. Cities such as Amsterdam Manchester Stockholm and Helsinki are examples of cities that have used bottom-up planning through the gradual implementation of successive initiatives for regeneration. On the other hand Living PlanIT Neapolis in Cyprus and Saudi Arabia intelligent cities have started with the top-down approach setting up urban operating systems and common central platforms. Part III focuses on intelligent city strategies; how cities should manage the drivers of spatial intelligence create smart environments mobilise communities and offer new solutions to address city problems. </p><p>Main findings of the book are related to a series of models which capture fundamental aspects of intelligent cities making and operation. These models consider structure function planning strategies toward intelligent environments and a model of governance based on mobilisation of communities knowledge architectures and innovation cycles.</p>