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"What makes something "smart?" In the Exploring the Internet of Things series, readers discover how inanimate objects, from watches to home speakers to even t-shirts, help people get things done better, faster, and smarter. In Smart Cities, readers will learn the practical application, technological and future advancements, and innovation of IoT in cities around the world. Includes informative sidebars, data-focused text, and 21st Century Skills backmatter content"--

Intro -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- About the Book -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Abbreviations -- Part I -- Chapter 1: Key Issues of Smart Cities -- 1.1 Smart Grid and Buildings -- 1.1.1 Overview of Smart Grid and Building -- 1.1.2 The Importance of Smart Grid and Buildings in Smart City -- 1.1.3 Framework of Smart Grid and Buildings -- 1.2 Smart Traffic Systems -- 1.2.1 Overview of Smart Traffic Systems -- 1.2.2 The Importance of Smart Traffic Systems for Smart City -- 1.2.3 Framework of Smart Traffic Systems -- 1.3 Smart Environment -- 1.3.1 Overview of Smart Environment for Smart City -- 1.3.2 The Importance of Smart Environment for Smart City -- 1.3.3 Framework of Smart Environment -- 1.4 Framework of Smart Cities -- 1.4.1 Key Points of Smart City in the Era of Big Data -- 1.4.2 Big Data Time-series Forecasting Methods in Smart Cities -- 1.4.3 Overall Framework of Big Data Forecasting in Smart Cities -- 1.5 The Importance Analysis of Big Data Forecasting Architecture for Smart Cities -- 1.5.1 Overview and Necessity of Research -- 1.5.2 Review on Big Data Forecasting in Smart Cities -- 1.5.3 Review on Big Data Forecasting in Smart Gird and Buildings -- 1.5.4 Review on Big Data Forecasting in Smart Traffic Systems -- 1.5.5 Review on Big Data Forecasting in Smart Environment -- References -- Part II -- Chapter 2: Electrical Characteristics and Correlation Analysis in Smart Grid -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Extraction of Building Electrical Features -- 2.2.1 Analysis of Meteorological Elements -- 2.2.2 Analysis of System Load -- 2.2.3 Analysis of Thermal Perturbation -- 2.3 Cross-Correlation Analysis of Electrical Characteristics -- 2.3.1 Cross-Correlation Analysis Based on MI -- 2.3.1.1 The Theoretical Basis of MI -- 2.3.1.2 Cross-Correlation Result of Electrical Characteristics.

Intro -- Contents -- The Men of a Million Lies, or How We Imagine the World -- Plato's Cinema -- The Deceptions of Memory -- Cartography and the Canvas of White Spaces -- Faust the Imperial Architect -- The Dialectics of Inspiration -- In Morphia Veritas -- Here be Cities -- Dentata -- Robinsonade -- Where the Wild Things Are -- No North, No South, No East, No West -- The Tower -- The Sun King -- Proteus -- Perfecting the Shipwreck -- The Sublime, Twinned With the Abyss -- Apocalypse Then -- The Urbacides -- Houses of Vice and Virtue -- New Jerusalem, or Nevertown -- Kurtzville -- The Ancient Modernists -- The Map is the Real -- Blueprinting Eternity -- Babel -- The Living Ruins -- The Return of Mammon -- City of Angels -- Discovering the Diagonal -- The Lightning Rod -- Skyscraper Mania -- Elevators Through the Stratosphere -- The Golem -- Vertical Suburbs -- Sanctifying the Secular -- Lift Off -- It Came From the Depths -- The Evaporating Cities -- A Glowing Future -- The Alchemical Cities -- Cities Made Without Hands -- Foundations -- The Wrath of God -- The Drowned World -- Seasteading -- The Seven Invisible Cities of Gold -- The Abiding Desire for No Place -- The Thirteenth Hour -- Cockaigne -- The Biological City -- Possessed -- The Jungle -- The Glass Delusion -- The House of Constructions -- Books Versus Stone -- Remembering the Future -- The Mechanical Heart -- Further Sleepwalking -- Of Steam and Clockwork -- Micropolis -- Tomorrow Will Continue Forever -- Accelerator -- Pow -- Sealess Ships, Grounded Spacecraft and the Curse of the Genie -- Home is Where the Harm Is -- The Cinematic Dystopia of the Everyday -- In Love With Velocity -- On the Road -- The Crystal Palaces -- Plotting the Stars -- Flux Us -- The Megalomania of Cells -- Revolution! Revolution! Revolution! -- Releasing the Golem -- The Turk -- The Pit and the Pendulum.

Musical Cities represents an innovative approach to scholarly research and dissemination. A digital and interactive 'book', it explores the rhythms of our cities, and the role they play in our everyday urban lives, through the use of sound and music.

Sara Adhitya first discusses why we should listen to urban rhythms in order to design more liveable and sustainable cities, before demonstrating how we can do so through various acoustic communication techniques. Using audio-visual examples, Musical Cities takes the 'listener' on an interactive journey, revealing how sound and music can be used to represent, compose, perform and interact with the city. Through case studies of urban projects developed in Paris, Perth, Venice and London, Adhitya demonstrates how the power of music, and the practice of listening, can help us to compose more accessible, inclusive, engaging, enjoyable, and ultimately more sustainable cities.

"The fourth edition of Mark Hutter's Experiencing Cities examines cities and larger metropolitan areas within a truly global framework, lending readers much to understand and appreciate about the variety of urban structures and processes and their effect on the everyday lives of people residing in cities. Beginning with the emergence of the first urban centers and continuing to examine the present-day and the future of smart cities, this book explores the changing cultural and domestic character of the metropolis and offers readers a complete historical and theoretical overview of municipal life. The new edition seamlessly integrates issues of gender, race, ethnicity, sexuality, and class in its examination of city and suburban life, and further extends the Chicago School of Sociology perspective by combining its traditions with a distinct social psychological orientation derived from symbolic interaction and macro-level examination of social organization, social change, and power in the urban context. With this strong and sweeping interdisciplinary approach, the new edition of Experiencing Cities will continue to enrich students' understandings of urban life and offer new, forward-looking perspective to those working in the fields of urban sociology, history, politics, geography, and the arts"--

Through a combination of social theory, polemic and close attention to empirical detail, author Nigel Thrift demonstrates how and why cities cause mass animal death and hasten the destruction of the planet. The book then attempts to set out how ′we′ can navigate out of the current situation and towards a world in which cities no longer act as killers but become aligned with the lives of other beings..

Cover -- Contents -- Introduction -- The Development of Planned Settlements -- Influential Ideas and Examples -- Howard, Parker and Unwin: Garden City Theory and Planning -- Garden Cities in Practice -- Garden Suburbs and Villages -- Living in Utopia -- Further Reading -- Places to Visit -- Index -- Imprint