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Smart Economy in Smart African Cities, 1st ed. 2019 Sustainable, Inclusive, Resilient and Prosperous Advances in 21st Century Human Settlements Series

Langue : Anglais

Coordonnateurs : Mboup Gora, Oyelaran-Oyeyinka Banji

Couverture de l’ouvrage Smart Economy in Smart African Cities
This book highlights the use of information and communication technology (ICT) infrastructures in order to develop smart cities and produce smart economies in Africa. It discusses a robust set of concepts, including smart planning, smart infrastructure development, smart economic development, smart environmental sustainability, smart social development, resilience, and smart peace and security in several African cities. By drawing on the accumulated knowledge on various conditions that make cities smart, green, livable and healthy, it helps in the planning, design and management of African urbanization. In turn, it fosters the development of e-commerce, e-education, e-governance, etc. The rapid development of ICT infrastructures facilitates the creation of smart economies in digitally served cities and towns through smart urban planning, smart infrastructures, smart land tenure and smart urban policies. In the long term, this can reduce emissions of CO2, promote the creation of low carbon cities, reduce land degradation and promote biodiversity.
Since 2014, Dr. Gora Mboup has been the President and CEO of GORA Corp. He has more than 25 years of international development experience, including ten years as a Coordinator of the Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) funded by United States Agency for International Development (USAID). He joined the UN-Habitat in 2004 as a Senior Demographer and Head of the Global Urban Observatory (GUO). In June 2014, the UN-Habitat honored him with a plaque “in recognition of ten years of distinguished and dedicated service to the United Nations”.  Dr. Mboup co-authored the book “Smart Economy in Smart Cities” and the book “Smart Metropolitan Regional Development: Economic and Spatial Design Strategies” published in 2017 and 2018 by Springer respectively. During his tenure with UN-Habitat, Dr. Mboup authored the book “Street as Public Spaces and Drivers of Urban Prosperity” in 2013 and four series of the State of World Cities: 1) SWCR 2012/13 – Prosperity of Cities; 2) SWCR 2010/11 – Bridging the Urban Divide; 3) SWCR 2008/09 – Harmonious Cities; 4) SWCR 2006/07 –Thirty years of the Habitat Agenda. Dr. Mboup also contributed to the book “Urban Planet – Knowledge Towards Sustainable Cities” published in 2018 by Cambridge University Press with the chapter 39 “The digital urbanization and the end of big cities”. Dr. Mboup is an international consultant on smart cities, sustainable urban development and smart mobility with the World Bank, UN-Habitat, UNECA, African Union, national governments and local authorities. He is also a Senior Fellow of the Global City Institute (GCI) of the University of Toronto and provides public lectures in several universities such as London School of Economics (UK), Columbia University (USA), University of Twente (ITC, The Netherlands) and Royal Institute of Technology (Sweden).  

Prof. Oyebanji Oyeyinka is the former Director of the UN-Habitat’s Regional Office for Africa and forme

Uses case studies from the African continent to help readers understand how smart economies can change urban spatial systems

Presents studies to demonstrate how smart cities are sustainable, inclusive, and prosperous

Highlights how smart cities promote greener and lower carbon environments

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Ouvrage de 492 p.

15.5x23.5 cm

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137,14 €

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