Smart Metropolitan Regional Development

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Smart Metropolitan Regional Development is written by T.M. Vinod Kumar and published by Springer. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 9811085889 (ISBN 10) and 9789811085888 (ISBN 13).

This book discusses the concept and practice of a smart metropolitan region, and how smart cities promote healthy economic and spatial development. It highlights how smart metropolitan regional development can energize, reorganize and transform the legacy economy into a smart economy; how it can help embrace Information and Communications Technology (ICT); and how it can foster a shared economy. In addition, it outlines how the five pillars of the third industrial revolution can be achieved by smart communities. In addition, the book draws on 16 in-depth city case studies from ten countries to explore the state of the art regarding the smart economy in smart cities – and to apply the lessons learned to shape smart metropolitan economic and spatial development.