Design Guide for Smart Cities™

"We shape our buildings, thereafter they shape us." - Winston Churchill


  1. Smart City - Future City? Smart City 2.0 as a Livable City and Future Market
  2. Smart Cities, Smart Future: Showcasing Tomorrow
  3. Smart Governance for Cities: Perspectives and Experiences
  4. Balanced Urban Development: Options and Strategies for Livable Cities
  5. Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Explain Everything About the World
  6. The Geography of Transport Systems
  7. The Great Good Place (Ray Oldenburg)
  8. Celebrating the Third Place: Inspiring Stories About the "Great Good Places" at the Heart of Our Communities
  9. The Death and Life of Great American Cities (Jane Jacobs)
  10. Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community (Robert Putnam)
  11. City Logistics 1: New Opportunities and Challenges
  12. City Logistics 2: Modeling and Planning Initiatives
  13. City Logistics 3: Towards Sustainable and Livable Cities
  14. Open Data: All You Want To Know About Open Data
  15. Governance Models for Creating Public Value in Open Data Initiatives
  16. Enlightenment in a Smart City: Edinburgh's Civic Development, 1660-1750
  17. The Green New Deal
  18. Inventing Future Cities
  19. Inside Smart Cities
  20. Smart Cities: Introducing Digital Innovation to Cities
  21. Smart Cities
  22. Demystifying Smart Cities: Practical Perspectives on How Cities Can Leverage the Potential of New Technologies
  23. City of Bits
  24. The Plan of Chicago
  25. Designing the Megaregion
  26. Global Sustainability and Communities of Practice
  27. Planet of Cities
  28. Transforming City Governments for Successful Smart Cities
  29. Co-creating Digital Public Services for an Ageing Society
  30. Uneven Innovation: The Work of Smart Cities
  31. The Transportation Experience, 2e
  32. Transportation Decision Making: Principles of Project Evaluation and Programming
  33. A Companion to Urban Economics
  34. A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction
  35. Accidental City: The Transformation of Toronto
  36. Arrival City: How the Largest Migration in History is Reshaping Our World
  37. Three Revolutions: Steering Automated, Shared, and Electric Vehicles to a Better Future
  38. Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design
  39. Urban Sprawl and Public Health: Designing, Planning and Building for Health Communities
  40. Restorative Commons: Creating Health and Well-Being Through Urban Landscapes
  41. Megacommunities: How Leaders of Government, Business and Non-Profits Can Tackle Today's Global Challenges Together
  42. The Responsive City: Engaging Communities Through Data-Smart Governance
  43. The Service Encounter: Managing Employee/Customer Interaction in Service Businesses
  44. Toward the Healthy City: People, Places, and the Politics of Urban Planning
  45. Urban Growth: An Approach
  46. Worlding Cities: Asian Experiments and the Art of Being Global
  47. How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York
  48. Just Transportation: Dismantling Race and Class Barriers to Mobility
  49. Sharing Cities: Activating the Urban Commons
  50. Silent Spring (Unabridged, 2022)


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