The promises and realities of digital innovation have come to suffuse everything from city regions to astronomy, government to finance, art to medicine, politics to warfare, and from genetics to reality itself. Digital systems augmenting physical space, buildings, and communities occupy a special place in the evolutionary discourse about advanced technology. The two Intelligent Environments books edited by Peter Droege span a quarter of a century across this genre. The second volume, Intelligent Environments: Advanced Systems for a Healthy Planet, asks: how does civilization approach thinking systems, intelligent spatial models, design methods, and support structures designed for sustainability, in ways that could counteract challenges to terrestrial habitability?
This book examines a range of baseline and benchmark practices but also unusual and even sublime endeavors across regions, currencies, infrastructure, architecture, transactive electricity, geodesign, net-positive planning, remote work, integrated transport, and artificial intelligence in understanding the most immediate spatial setting: the human body. The result of this quest is both highly informative and useful, but also critical. It opens windows on what must fast become a central and overarching existential focus in the face of anthropogenic planetary heating and other threats—and raises concomitant questions about direction, scope, and speed of that change.
1. Intelligent Environments - p. Page i 2. Cover - p. Page i 3. Front Matter - p. Page ii 4. Table of Contents - p. Page iii 5. Copyright - p. Page iv 6. Contributor biographies - p. Page iv 7. Preface - p. Page xi 8. List of Illustrations - p. Page xiv 9. List of Tables - p. Page xv 10. 1 : Intelligent environments 2—Advanced systems for a healthy planet - p. Page xv 11. 2 : The Ruhr innovation ecosystem—From industrial brownfields to regenerative smart environments - p. Page 29 12. 3 : Triangulum: the three point project—findings from one of the first EU smart city projects - p. Page 83 13. 4 : Transactive electricity: how decentralized renewable power can support security, resilience and decarbonization - p. Page 106 14. 5 : Community inclusion currencies - p. Page 146 15. 6 : Managing uncertainty/making miracles: understanding and strategizing for unpredictable outcomes in the implementation of intelligent government - p. Page 173 16. 7 : Geodesign to address global change - p. Page 191 17. 8 : Smart working and flexible work arrangements: opportunities and risks for sustainable communities - p. Page 240 18. 9 : Intelligent spatial technologies for gender inclusive urban environments in today's smart cities - p. Page 276 19. 10 : Toward an intelligent mobility regime - p. Page 317 20. 11 : Autonomous mobility in the built environment - p. Page 348 21. 12 : Smart building and district retrofitting for intelligent urban environments - p. Page 388 22. 13 : Scale matters: exploiting cross-scale interactions for a smart and sustainable built environment - p. Page 416 23. 14 : Ontologically streamlined data for building design and operation support - p. Page 443 24. 15 : Digital City Science—a platform methodology for sustainable urban development - p. Page 472 25. 16 : A software tool for net-positive urban design and architecture - p. Page 495 26. 17 : Strategies to improve energy efficiency in residential buildings in Ambon, Indonesia - p. Page 528 27. 18 : Transactive electricity markets: case study RENeW Nexus - p. Page 549 28. 19 : The Insight Engine 2.0: the body and biomimetic systems as intelligent environments - p. Page 587 29. Index - p. Page 615
The promises and realities of digital innovation have come to suffuse everything from city regions to astronomy, government to finance, art to medicine, politics to warfare, and from genetics to reality itself. Digital systems augmenting physical space, buildings, and communities occupy a special place in the evolutionary discourse about advanced technology. The two Intelligent Environments books edited by Peter Droege span a quarter of a century across this genre. The second volume, Intelligent Environments: Advanced Systems for a Healthy Planet, asks: how does civilization approach thinking systems, intelligent spatial models, design methods, and support structures designed for sustainability, in ways that could counteract challenges to terrestrial habitability?
This book examines a range of baseline and benchmark practices but also unusual and even sublime endeavors across regions, currencies, infrastructure, architecture, transactive electricity, geodesign, net-positive planning, remote work, integrated transport, and artificial intelligence in understanding the most immediate spatial setting: the human body. The result of this quest is both highly informative and useful, but also critical. It opens windows on what must fast become a central and overarching existential focus in the face of anthropogenic planetary heating and other threats—and raises concomitant questions about direction, scope, and speed of that change.
1. Intelligent Environments - p. Page i 2. Cover - p. Page i 3. Front Matter - p. Page ii 4. Table of Contents - p. Page iii 5. Copyright - p. Page iv 6. Contributor biographies - p. Page iv 7. Preface - p. Page xi 8. List of Illustrations - p. Page xiv 9. List of Tables - p. Page xv 10. 1 : Intelligent environments 2—Advanced systems for a healthy planet - p. Page xv 11. 2 : The Ruhr innovation ecosystem—From industrial brownfields to regenerative smart environments - p. Page 29 12. 3 : Triangulum: the three point project—findings from one of the first EU smart city projects - p. Page 83 13. 4 : Transactive electricity: how decentralized renewable power can support security, resilience and decarbonization - p. Page 106 14. 5 : Community inclusion currencies - p. Page 146 15. 6 : Managing uncertainty/making miracles: understanding and strategizing for unpredictable outcomes in the implementation of intelligent government - p. Page 173 16. 7 : Geodesign to address global change - p. Page 191 17. 8 : Smart working and flexible work arrangements: opportunities and risks for sustainable communities - p. Page 240 18. 9 : Intelligent spatial technologies for gender inclusive urban environments in today's smart cities - p. Page 276 19. 10 : Toward an intelligent mobility regime - p. Page 317 20. 11 : Autonomous mobility in the built environment - p. Page 348 21. 12 : Smart building and district retrofitting for intelligent urban environments - p. Page 388 22. 13 : Scale matters: exploiting cross-scale interactions for a smart and sustainable built environment - p. Page 416 23. 14 : Ontologically streamlined data for building design and operation support - p. Page 443 24. 15 : Digital City Science—a platform methodology for sustainable urban development - p. Page 472 25. 16 : A software tool for net-positive urban design and architecture - p. Page 495 26. 17 : Strategies to improve energy efficiency in residential buildings in Ambon, Indonesia - p. Page 528 27. 18 : Transactive electricity markets: case study RENeW Nexus - p. Page 549 28. 19 : The Insight Engine 2.0: the body and biomimetic systems as intelligent environments - p. Page 587 29. Index - p. Page 615
