LEADER 04142nam 22006375 450 001 9910383827003321 005 20200703020350.0 010 $a3-030-43815-5 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-030-43815-9 035 $a(CKB)4100000010771025 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6151478 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-030-43815-9 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000010771025 100 $a20200330d2020 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aBiotechnology and Future Cities $eTowards Sustainability, Resilience and Living Urban Organisms /$fby Zaheer Allam 205 $a1st ed. 2020. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer International Publishing :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2020. 215 $a1 online resource (98 pages) 311 $a3-030-43814-7 327 $aChapter 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. 330 $aThis 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. 606 $aHuman geography 606 $aSociology 606 $aUrban geography 606 $aEcology  606 $aBiotechnology 606 $aHuman Geography$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/X26000 606 $aSociology, general$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/X22000 606 $aUrban Geography / Urbanism (inc. megacities, cities, towns)$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/J15010 606 $aEcology$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/L19007 606 $aBiotechnology$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/C12002 615 0$aHuman geography. 615 0$aSociology. 615 0$aUrban geography. 615 0$aEcology . 615 0$aBiotechnology. 615 14$aHuman Geography. 615 24$aSociology, general. 615 24$aUrban Geography / Urbanism (inc. megacities, cities, towns). 615 24$aEcology. 615 24$aBiotechnology. 676 $a307.1216 676 $a300 700 $aAllam$b Zaheer$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$0861409 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910383827003321 996 $aBiotechnology and Future Cities$92537598 997 $aUNINA