Editors:
Introduces systematically the principles of urban informatics, including urban system theories, techniques, and tools for urban big data acquisition, infrastructure, and analytics, as well as focusing these new tools on urban problems and possible solutions
Brings together over 140 world-leading researchers and 50 institutions across a wide range of scientific disciplines to deliver a collaborative understanding, technologies, and solutions in the field of urban informatics
Integrates highly diverse tools and techniques associated with the analysis of the smart city, but often dealt with separately, under the rubric of geographic information science
Is an open access book
Part of the book series: The Urban Book Series (UBS)
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Table of contents (48 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Dimensions of Urban Science
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Front Matter
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Urban Systems and Applications
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Front Matter
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About this book
Keywords
- Urban informatics
- Urban science
- GIS
- Urban computing
- Sensing
- Big data
- Smart cities
- Spatial data infrastructure
- Big data analytics
- Data-driven geography
- Open access
Editors and Affiliations
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The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Wenzhong Shi, Anshu Zhang
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University of California, Santa Barbara, USA
Michael F. Goodchild
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University College London, London, UK
Michael Batty
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The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Mei-Po Kwan
About the editors
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Urban Informatics
Editors: Wenzhong Shi, Michael F. Goodchild, Michael Batty, Mei-Po Kwan, Anshu Zhang
Series Title: The Urban Book Series
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-8983-6
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2021
License: CC BY
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-15-8982-9Published: 07 April 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-15-8985-0Published: 29 December 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-981-15-8983-6Published: 06 April 2021
Series ISSN: 2365-757X
Series E-ISSN: 2365-7588
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 941
Number of Illustrations: 34 b/w illustrations, 355 illustrations in colour
Topics: Human Geography, Computer Communication Networks, Computer and Information Systems Applications, Geography