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As cities swell and the pressure on urban infrastructure intensifies, the concept of the Smart City emerges not merely as an ideal but as a necessity. This groundbreaking volume offers an in-depth, multidisciplinary journey through the evolving landscape of urbanization and sustainable smart city development. This book offers a thorough description of the challenges posed by increasing global urbanization. Unplanned urbanization gave rise to the change of urban land use patterns, slums, inadequate housing, sanitation hazards, rampant pollution, and the rise of global epidemics. It focuses in particular on strategies and services to solve the difficulties and concerns raised by increasing urbanization. This book demystifies the smart city, not just as a technological aspiration, but as a living, breathing urban ecosystem. Starting with foundational concepts and global case studies, it journeys through the multilayered dimensions of smart governance, intelligent transport systems, resilient infrastructure, citizen participation, and data-driven decision-making. In addition, the contributors will take insights from environmental design, geography, strategic planning, application of science and technology, and engineering design to go beyond the jargon of technical innovation and expose the political, social, and physical effects of digitalizing the world in smart cities. This book highlights the planning of land use, strategic development, and ecosystem-based knowledge to enhance economic growth and a healthy urban environment, and smart city management, the contradictory aspects of smart city studies, and provides useful insights into the creation and execution of policies to strengthen decision-making processes in smart cities. This book uniquely blends academic rigor with real-world applications, including over a dozen case studies from Indian and international contexts—ranging from slum infrastructure upgrading in Bankura to geospatial tree mapping in Pune and density-based service analysis in Bengaluru and Delhi. In addition, the book leads the reader to a greater understanding of smart city growth, both theoretical and realistic. Designed for urban planners, researchers, civil engineers, geographers, policy strategists, and students, Urbanization and Sustainable Smart Cities offers both a strategic roadmap and a technological toolkit for those envisioning the smart cities of tomorrow—equitable, green, digitally empowered, and resilient.

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Dr. Pravat Kumar Shit, Assistant Professor, has been working at the Postgraduates Department of Geography, Raja N. L. Khan Women's College (Autonomous), Vidyasagar University, Midnapore, West Bengal, India. He received his Ph.D. in Geography from Vidyasagar University (India) in 2013, M.Sc. in Geography and Environment Management from Vidyasagar University in 2005, and PG Diploma in Remote Sensing & GIS from Sambalpur University in 2015. His main fields of research are soil erosion spatial modeling, non-timber forest and rural livelihood, forest biomass and carbon stocks, water resources and natural resources mapping, urban environmental issues, and modeling. Dr. Shit is Associate Editor and Editorial Board Member of three international journals in geography and earth environment science. He has served as Reviewer for many international journals. He has published 16 books (Springer-12, Elsevier-02, CRC Press-01, and others) and more than 70 papers in peer-reviewed journals.  He is currently Editor of the GIScience and Geo-environmental Modelling Book Series. Dr. Shit also currently Lead Guest Editor of two international journals: 1. Applied Water Science Journal, Springer, for Special Issue (SI) on GIScience and Geostatistics Applied to Groundwater Resources. 2. SN Applied Sciences Journal, Springer, for Special Issue (SI) on Forest Resilience, Society and Development: Application of Geospatial Technology   Dr. Gouri Sankar Bhunia received his Ph.D. from the University of Calcutta, India, in 2015. His research interests include applied geography, environmental modeling, risk assessment, data mining, agriculture planning, and information retrieval using geospatial technology. He is an Associate Editor on the editorial boards of three international journals in Health GIS and Geosciences. Currently, he is involved in various Smart City Planning programs in India. Dr. Bhunia's research encompasses environmental modeling, risk assessment, natural resource mapping, and data mining through geospatial technology. He has an extensive publication record, with 19 books (Springer-12, Elsevier-02, CRC Press-01, and others), over 90 peer-reviewed articles, and multiple book chapters in Springer and Elsevier. He is actively involved in editorial capacities, serving as Associate Editor for the Indian Journal of Soil Conservation and as a guest editor for journals such as ""Environmental Science and Pollution Research"" and ""Applied Water Science”. Currently, he is the editor of the Springer Nature book series ""GIScience and Geo-environmental Modelling"".

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