Urban Informatics.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Shi, Wenzhong.
Other Authors: Goodchild, Michael F., Batty, Michael., Kwan, Mei-Po., Zhang, Anshu.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Singapore : Springer Singapore Pte. Limited, 2021.
Edition:1st ed.
Series:The Urban Book Series
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Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Acknowledgements
  • Contents
  • About the Editors
  • 1 Overall Introduction
  • 1.1 Defining Urban Informatics
  • 1.2 The Background: The Origins of Urban Informatics
  • 1.3 Structure of the Book
  • 1.4 Retrospective and Prospective
  • References
  • Part IDimensions of Urban Science
  • 2 Introduction to Urban Science
  • 3 Defining Urban Science
  • 3.1 A Science of Cities
  • 3.2 City Systems and Systems of Cities
  • 3.3 Urban Growth: Urbanization from the Bottom Up
  • 3.4 Scale and Size, Networks, and Flows
  • 3.5 The Development of Operational Urban Models
  • 3.6 Future Directions in Urban Informatics
  • References
  • 4 Street View Imaging for Automated Assessments of Urban Infrastructure and Services
  • 4.1 Introduction
  • 4.2 Data Collection and Object Localization
  • 4.3 Deriving Urban Functions from Object Statistics
  • 4.4 Discussion
  • References
  • 5 Urban Human Dynamics
  • 5.1 Introduction
  • 5.2 Urban Dynamics
  • 5.2.1 Cellular Automata for Urban Dynamics Research
  • 5.2.2 Other Urban Dynamics Approaches
  • 5.3 Human Dynamics
  • 5.3.1 Effects of Information and Communications Technologies on Human Dynamics
  • 5.3.2 Time Geography
  • 5.3.3 Big Data and Space-Time GIS for Human Dynamics Research
  • 5.3.4 Some Other Examples Human Dynamics Studies
  • 5.4 Urban Human Dynamics and Urban Informatics
  • References
  • 6 Geosmartness for Personalized and Sustainable Future Urban Mobility
  • 6.1 Introduction
  • 6.2 Geosmartness
  • 6.3 Analyzing Urban-Mobility Patterns
  • 6.3.1 Data
  • 6.3.2 Computational Methods for Large-Scale Spatio-temporal Mobility-Pattern Analysis
  • 6.3.3 Studies
  • 6.3.4 SBB Green Class (Multi-modal and Energy-Efficient Mobility)
  • 6.4 Behavioral Change and Sustainable Mobility
  • 6.4.1 Motivation
  • 6.4.2 Detecting and Supporting Behavioral Change
  • 6.4.3 Studies
  • 6.4.4 GoEco!
  • 6.5 Mobile Decision Making.
  • 6.5.1 Mobile Eye-Tracking and Gaze-Based Interaction
  • 6.5.2 Personalized Gaze-Based Decision Support
  • 6.6 Conclusions and Future Work
  • References
  • 7 Urban Metabolism
  • 7.1 Introduction
  • 7.2 History of Urban Metabolism
  • 7.3 Methods of Urban Metabolism
  • 7.3.1 Bottom-Up Methods
  • 7.3.2 Top-Down Methods
  • 7.3.3 Hybrid Methods
  • 7.4 A Case Study: The Metabolism of Singapore
  • 7.5 Urban Metabolism Applications, Challenges, and Opportunities
  • 7.6 Conclusions
  • References
  • 8 Spatial Economics, Urban Informatics, and Transport Accessibility
  • 8.1 Introduction
  • 8.2 Intellectual Context
  • 8.3 Econometric Models
  • 8.3.1 Isotropic Versus Hierarchical Market Linkages for Economic Mass (EM) Computation
  • 8.3.2 Control Variables
  • 8.3.3 Representing Spatial Spillover Effects
  • 8.4 Data
  • 8.5 Model Test Results
  • 8.6 Discussions
  • 8.7 Conclusions
  • References
  • 9 Conceptualizing the City of the Information Age
  • 9.1 Introduction
  • 9.1.1 Urban Complexity in the Age of Information and Communication Technologies
  • 9.1.2 A Different Kind of City
  • 9.1.3 The Smart City
  • 9.1.4 Urban Informatics
  • 9.2 Urban Research and Planning, Yesterday, and Tomorrow
  • 9.2.1 The City as Place
  • 9.2.2 The City as Node on a Network
  • 9.2.3 Planning the City
  • 9.3 Speculations
  • 9.3.1 The Robotic Era?
  • 9.3.2 The City's Epistemic Planes
  • 9.4 Conclusion
  • References
  • Part IIUrban Systems and Applications
  • 10 Introduction to Urban Systems and Applications
  • 11 Characterizing Urban Mobility Patterns: A Case Study of Mexico City
  • 11.1 Introduction
  • 11.2 Data Collection of POIs
  • 11.2.1 Parsing Algorithm
  • 11.3 Spatial Distribution of POIs
  • 11.3.1 Extended Radiation Model for Human Mobility
  • 11.3.2 Results
  • 11.4 Analyzing Human Mobility by Mode of Transportation
  • 11.4.1 Detected Mobility Groups
  • 11.5 Conclusions.
  • References
  • 12 Laboratories for Research on Freight Systems and Planning
  • 12.1 Introduction
  • 12.2 Future Mobility Sensing, a Behavioral Laboratory
  • 12.2.1 Background
  • 12.2.2 FMS Architecture
  • 12.2.3 Applications
  • 12.3 SimMobility, a Simulation Laboratory
  • 12.3.1 Background
  • 12.3.2 SimMobility Architecture
  • 12.3.3 Applications
  • 12.4 Demonstrations
  • 12.4.1 Freight-Vehicle Route-Choice Model
  • 12.4.2 Quantification of Model Performance
  • 12.4.3 Replication of Specific Freight and Non-Freight-Vehicle Tours
  • 12.5 Concluding Remarks
  • References
  • 13 Urban Risks and Resilience
  • 13.1 Introduction
  • 13.2 Risks, Exposure, and Vulnerability
  • 13.3 Urban Resilience and Capacities
  • 13.3.1 The Definitional Quagmire
  • 13.3.2 Objects of Analysis
  • 13.4 Measurement and Assessment Informatics
  • 13.5 Science Informs Practice and Practice Informs Science
  • 13.6 Moving Forward
  • References
  • 14 Urban Crime and Security
  • 14.1 Introduction
  • 14.2 Urban Crime
  • 14.2.1 Historical Roots in Understanding Urban Crime: An Environmental Perspective
  • 14.2.2 Theoretical Concepts in Environmental Criminology
  • 14.3 Urban Security
  • 14.3.1 Fear of Crime in Urban Areas
  • 14.3.2 Implementation of Crime Prevention
  • 14.4 Latest Tools in Urban Crime Analysis and Security
  • 14.4.1 Crime Hotspot Mapping: From Retrospective Analysis to Prediction
  • 14.4.2 Advanced Police Patrolling Strategies
  • 14.5 Intelligent Data-Driven Policing
  • 14.6 Summary
  • References
  • 15 Urban Governance
  • 15.1 Transparency and City Open Data
  • 15.1.1 Open Data Platforms
  • 15.1.2 Open Data and Accountability
  • 15.1.3 Why Are Goals Important?
  • 15.1.4 Dashboards and Performance Indicators
  • 15.2 Algorithmic Decision-Making
  • 15.2.1 Positioning Algorithms
  • 15.2.2 Challenges for Operationalizing Algorithms
  • 15.3 Conclusion
  • References.
  • 16 Urban Pollution
  • 16.1 Monitoring Air Quality in Urban Areas
  • 16.2 Remote Sensing of the Urban Heat Island
  • 16.2.1 Spatial Resolution of Satellite Sensors Related to Scales of Urban Climate
  • 16.2.2 Relationship Between Surface Temperature and Air Temperature
  • 16.2.3 Time of Imaging in Relation to Heat Island Maximum
  • 16.2.4 Anisotropy of the Satellite View
  • 16.2.5 The Need for Emissivity and Atmospheric Correction
  • 16.3 Monitoring Water Quality Along Urban Coastlines
  • References
  • 17 Urban Health and Wellbeing
  • 17.1 Smart Cities and Health
  • 17.2 Data
  • 17.2.1 Big Data
  • 17.2.2 Individual and Population Data
  • 17.2.3 Environmental Data
  • 17.3 Methods and Techniques
  • 17.4 BERTHA Studies
  • 17.4.1 AirGIS
  • 17.4.2 Personalized Tracking and Sensing
  • 17.4.3 Personalized Air-Pollution Sensors
  • 17.4.4 Mental Health
  • 17.4.5 Physical Activity
  • 17.4.6 Danish Blood-Donor Study
  • 17.5 Privacy
  • 17.6 Conclusions
  • References
  • 18 Urban Energy Systems: Research at Oak Ridge National Laboratory
  • 18.1 Introduction
  • 18.2 Population and Land Use
  • 18.2.1 Big Data and GeoAI to Create Population and Land-Use Data
  • 18.2.2 Estimating Urban Electricity Use in Data-Poor Regions
  • 18.2.3 Estimating Household-Level Energy Consumption
  • 18.3 Sustainable Mobility
  • 18.3.1 Human Interactions with Transportation Systems
  • 18.3.2 Emerging Options for Freight Delivery for Businesses
  • 18.4 Energy-Water Nexus
  • 18.5 Urban Resiliency
  • 18.5.1 Renewable Energy-Infrastructure Assessment
  • 18.5.2 Optimizing Energy and Safety Through Precision De-icing
  • 18.6 Situational Awareness of National Energy Infrastructure
  • 18.7 Conclusion
  • References
  • Part IIIUrban Sensing
  • 19 Introduction to Urban Sensing
  • 20 Optical Remote Sensing
  • 20.1 Introduction
  • 20.2 History of Optical Remote Sensing.
  • 20.3 Latest Developments in Optical Remote Sensing
  • 20.3.1 Introduction to Representative Optical Satellite Sensors
  • 20.4 Processing of Remote Sensing Satellite Images
  • 20.4.1 Image Pre-processing
  • 20.4.2 Image Processing
  • 20.4.3 Image Post-Processing
  • 20.5 Applications of Optical Remote Sensing
  • 20.5.1 Land-Use and Land-Cover Mapping
  • 20.5.2 Urban Vegetation Phenology
  • 20.5.3 Urban Heat Island Mapping
  • 20.5.4 Rock Outcrops Identification
  • 20.6 Summary
  • References
  • 21 Urban Sensing with Spaceborne Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar
  • 21.1 Synthetic Aperture Radar
  • 21.2 Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar
  • 21.3 Multi-temporal InSAR (MTInSAR)
  • 21.4 Applications in Urban Areas
  • 21.4.1 Construction of Fine Resolution DEM
  • 21.4.2 Subsidence Measurement
  • 21.4.3 Monitoring Stability of Infrastructures
  • 21.5 Summary
  • References
  • 22 Airborne LiDAR for Detection and Characterization of Urban Objects and Traffic Dynamics
  • 22.1 Introduction
  • 22.2 Detection of Urban Objects with ALS and Co-registered Imagery
  • 22.2.1 General Strategy
  • 22.2.2 Feature Derivation
  • 22.2.3 AdaBoost Classification
  • 22.3 Detection of Urban Traffic Dynamics with ALS Data
  • 22.3.1 Artifacts Effect of Vehicle Motion in ALS Data
  • 22.3.2 Detection of Moving Vehicles
  • 22.3.3 Concept for Vehicle Velocity Estimation with ALS Data
  • 22.4 Experiments and Results
  • 22.4.1 Detection of Urban Objects with ALS Data Associated with Aerial Imagery
  • 22.4.2 Accuracy Prediction for Vehicle Velocity Estimation Using ALS Aata
  • 22.5 Summary
  • References
  • 23 Photogrammetry for 3D Mapping in Urban Areas
  • 23.1 Introduction
  • 23.2 Fundamentals of Photogrammetry
  • 23.2.1 Image Orientation
  • 23.2.2 Bundle Adjustment
  • 23.2.3 Image Matching
  • 23.3 Advances in Photogrammetry for 3D Mapping in Urban Areas.
  • 23.3.1 Structure from Motion and Multi-view Stereo.