Sustainable Mega City Communities

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Sustainable Mega City Communities
Sustainable Mega City Communities
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1 - 
Introduction
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Public policy-the international perspective:overview
	1 - Government: plans, goals, and strategies to be smart and healthy communities
		Getting started
			Air transportation: an example of trust in action
			Trust defined
			Ten levers of trust enablement
			Putting it all together: the smart city trust framework
		International policies that create programs
			How smart districts can drive urban innovation
			Introduction
			The basics of consumption-based greenhouse gas emissions
			Key CBEI insights
	2 - The economics of sustainable development
		A “whole systems” approach to cost/benefit analysis and value creation
			Sustainable system versus linear approach
		Sustainable development costs more: perception versus perspective
			Terramor Village by Rancho Mission Viejo/DMB, Ladera Ranch, California
			Carsten Crossings by the Grupe Company, Whitney Ranch, California
			Shea Homes, Scripps Highlands, San Diego, California
			Examples of whole systems thinking with integrated solutions
			Life cycle assessment tools
			Eco-efficiencies and eco-effectiveness
		Quantifying the green premium
			Realizing the sustainability premium
		Putting it all together
			Financial wave in sustainability
			Regulatory and legislative wave in sustainability
			The push pull of regulation versus innovation
		References
	3 - Systems integrated mass transit to walking paths
	4 - Better security and protection for people and ecological systems: integrated approaches for decoupling urban gr ...
		Overview
		Need for reversing drivers of urban emissions in megacities
		Benchmarked levels of sustainability performances of megacities
		Achieving decoupling through renewable energy penetration
		References
	5 - Future needs from the SMC plans – looking at Jiaxing, China: 40 years’ development from numbers
		Case 1
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		Case 2
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		Case 3
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		Case 4
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		Local government partnerships for innovation: the case of Logan, Australia
		City studios Logan partnering with universities and high schools
		INNOV8 Logan–Logan City, Australia has a virtual innovation hub
		Council's internal collaborative network: a new mindset for staff
		What's next
		China
			The Greater Bay Area Hong Kong development plan
			Key development areas
			Introduction
			Chinese cities need a change
			The introduction of smart green city
				Urban layout
				Public service
				Environment monitoring
				Green space and building
				Energy-related policy and planning
				Garbage classification and sewage treatment
			The method to measure the efficiency of urban planning
			Introduction of Data Envelopment Analysis model
			Sample cities selection
			Indicators selection
			The statistics resources
			DEA result analysis
			The comparison of technical efficiencies between Beijing and Singapore
				Applied model: DEA-CCR-TE
			The comparison of pure technical efficiency between Beijing and Singapore
				Applied model: DEA-BCC-PTE
			The comparison of scale efficiencies between Beijing and Singapore
				Applied model: DEA-BCC-SE
			Conclusion
			The prospect of smart green city in China
			Smart green agglomeration
			The driving force from advanced Mobile Internet industry
			The incentive from the political achievement evaluation system
			Further reading
	6 - Future needs from the Smart Mega City (SMC) plans—smart green city—the case of Istanbul
		Overview
			Smart city
			Smart green city
			Istanbul green smart city projects
			Istanbul: not only smart but also a creative city
		Conclusion
		References
3 - Economic options:back to the future:in China, the futureis now
	7 - Finance, economics, and energy: SMC green development
		Introduction
		Conclusion
		References
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		Policy challenges
		Cities taking the lead
		Tackling energy issues with collaborative cohorts
		Further reading
	8 - Circular economy: the next economics
		Overview
		Introduction
		Electric cars today: then all solar-powered cars is the next economics
		Why economics needs to be circular
		Circular economics
		The circular economy
		Technical and biological cycles
		Origins of the circular economy
		The new economic paradigm: circular economics
		Circular economy: from theory into practice
		The European Union enacted circular economy
		Circular economies in action
		Product and process design
		Circular economy and waste management strategies
		Standards for secondary raw materials
		European funds for innovation and skills development
		Simplify to innovate
		The European Union has already changed
		The “Circular Economy” in Europe
		Case from EU: Italy
		Conclusion
	9 - Planning for more sustainable development
		Overview
		Why are mega cities developing sustainable plans?
		Baselining and benchmarking
			Baselining
			Benchmark
		Outreach and engagement
		Drafting and implementation
		Case studies
			City of Milwaukee
			Implementation
			City of Los Angeles
			Implementation
			Adopt the pLAn
	10 - Global and international policies: UN Paris Accord UN G19 and G20
		Background
		Predictions
			Initiatives that cannot be measured if not started
			There will be many more interdepartmental smart city RFIs and RFPs
		Public–private partnerships will diversify and engage the long tail of SMBs
			Cities and vendors will lead with the needs of citizens
			Innovation will go deeper in cities, beyond smart city groups and into all departments
			There will be pushback on smart cities conferences from vendors and cities
		Artificial Intelligence (AI) will prevail, making actionable the treasure trove of data cities have available
		“Off the shelf” solutions will cater to small and midsize cities
		Cities and vendors will be more accountable for privacy than ever before
			2019 will be the year of replicable, scalable smart city innovations
4 - Globalism and regionalism:overview
	11 - Improving interconnectivity with multimodal transportation
		Overview
		Multimodal transportation
		Local transportation
			First/last mile solutions
		Regional connectivity
			Smart cards and mobile apps
			Case Studies
				New Orleans
			City of Los Angeles
	12 - Leading historical cities
		Overview
		Case in point: Yuneshima island in resort Osaka city
			Overview
		References
	13 - Tokyo sustainable megacity: robust governance to maximize synergies
		Introduction
			Tokyo metropolitan government
		Good governance versus virtue signaling
		Good governance to manage multiple challenges
		TMG in comparative perspective
		The drivers for megacity sustainability
		Adaptation and mitigation synergies
		The global challenge
		Integrated resilience and the Japanese megacity paradigm
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Conclusion
	14 - USA yesterday, today, and next—the near future
		Background
		Research results with 18 published books
		Case from Asia: China
		The circular economy opportunity for urban and industrial innovation in China
		Matter of priorities
References
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