03742nam 22006735 450 991038382700332120220118032125.09783030438159303043815510.1007/978-3-030-43815-9(CKB)4100000010771025(MiAaPQ)EBC6151478(DE-He213)978-3-030-43815-9(Perlego)3480332(EXLCZ)99410000001077102520200330d2020 u| 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierBiotechnology and Future Cities Towards Sustainability, Resilience and Living Urban Organisms /by Zaheer Allam1st ed. 2020.Cham :Springer International Publishing :Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,2020.1 online resource (98 pages)9783030438142 3030438147 Chapter 1 - Biotechnology to render future cities as living and intelligent organisms -- Chapter 2 - The Triple B: Big data, biotechnology and biomimicry -- Chapter 3 - Revisiting energy policy and planning in future living cities -- Chapter 4 - On gene editing and the conflicts between biodiversity and urban liveability -- Chapter 5 - Biometrics, privacy, safety and resilience in future cities.This book explores how biotechnology can lead to the reimagination of cities. In a time where the increasing adoption of technology by cities is leading to unsustainable environmental and economic concerns, biotechnology has enabled new ways of envisioning data and energy storage. Zaheer Allam thus revisits the popular concept of Smart Cities -and its associated Internet of Things (IoT) to explore how the biological sciences, coupled with technology, can be applied to cities; and in doing so, create living urban organisms on an unprecedented scale. This new concept will open up exciting avenues to providing novel solutions for climate change mitigation. The book goes on to address various potential concerns and discusses what regulatory frameworks would be needed to safely implement such a concept. It will be a useful tool for planners, policy makers and engineers as well as for researchers with in interest in the future of our cities. Zaheer Allam works as an Urban Strategist for the Port Louis Development Initiative (PLDI), Mauritius and the Global Creative Leadership Initiative. He is the African Representative of the International Society of Biourbanism (ISB) and a member of the Advisory Circle of the International Federation of Landscape Architects (IFLA). He was elevated, by the President of Mauritius, to the rank of Officer of the Order of the Star and Key of the Indian Ocean (OSK); the highest distinct order of Merit in Mauritius.Human geographySociologySociology, UrbanEcologyBiotechnologyHuman GeographySociologyUrban SociologyEcologyBiotechnologyHuman geography.Sociology.Sociology, Urban.Ecology.Biotechnology.Human Geography.Sociology.Urban Sociology.Ecology.Biotechnology.307.1216300Allam Zaheerauthttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut861409MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910383827003321Biotechnology and Future Cities2537598UNINA