Smart and Digital Cities : Innovative Design Practices and Future Exploration of New-Type Smart Cities

This book explores the emerging paradigm of Smart Digital Cities, where digital infrastructure and intelligent technologies converge to transform urban environments.

This book explores the emerging paradigm of Smart Digital Cities, where digital infrastructure and intelligent technologies converge to transform urban environments. It presents a structured and practice-oriented framework that addresses the evolution of smart city concepts, the integration of next-generation technologies such as AIoT, GPT, and AGI, and the design of scalable, multi-layered urban solutions. Organized into three parts—foundations, applications, and future outlook—it introduces core theories, cross-sector use cases, and forward-looking strategies including cloud-edge-device collaboration, data-driven decision-making, and industrial-urban integration. Illustrated with system models, architecture diagrams, and real-world case studies, the book emphasizes practical innovations while offering strategic insights for policy and technology development. It is a valuable resource for researchers, engineers, planners, and graduate students engaged in smart city design, digital transformation, and sustainable urban development.