Smart Master Planning for Cities

This book, based on international collaborative research, presents a state-of-the-art design for “Smart Master Planning” for all metropolises, megacities and meta cities as well as at sub-city zonal and community and neighborhood level.  Smart Master Planning accepts that all cities are a smart city in making in a limited way as far as the six components for Smart Cities; namely, smart people, smart economy, smart environment, smart mobility and smart Governance are concerned.  Smart Master Planning in any city can only be designed and executed by active roles of Smart People and Smart City Government and is a joint and synchronous effort of E-Democracy, E-Governance and ICT-IOT system in a 24 hour 7-day framework on all activities. In addition to use of  Information and Communication Technologies, and Remote Sensing, the design of smart Master Planning  utilizes domain specific tools of many aspects of a city  to realize the coordinated, effective and efficient planning, management, development and conservation that improve ecological, social, biophysical, psychological  and economic well-being in an equitable manner without compromising the sustainability of development ecosystems and stakeholders.   This book will present 12 case studies covering more than 12 cities or more cities centered on domain-specific smart planning components.