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Climate change is of growing global concern with connectivity to rapid urban spatial expansions and worldwide population growth. Governments and policy makers endeavor to mitigate actual climate change, as well as seeking methods of attenuating future environmental impacts emanating from the built environment. With this globally polemic issue in mind, the interchangeably used concepts of smart and intelligent cities have endorsed future development of highly responsive, integrated, resilient, and adaptive urban environments with highly efficient energy utilization. These efforts are expected to moderate environmental threats, enhance quality of life and digitalize the essence of urban systems. Proliferating such urban environments towards adapting to climate change requires being inherently bound with green infrastructures. But future built environments should go beyond the scope of more ‘green objectives’. Application of innovative technologies and design should embrace potentials to sense and actuate both the environment and people. Implementation of these new smart technologies will raise in turn issues of governance, economic infrastructures, mobility, and well-being of citizens. This performance-optimizing approach will undeniably encompass the urban resilience adaptation concepts to foster environmentally benign and climate-friendly developments as part of the future planning for smart cities.Current output:Publication 1
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