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id: media/urban-informatics
about:
  label: Urban Informatics
  description: >-
    Open-access edited volume from Shi, Goodchild, Batty, Kwan and Zhang, 2021,
    on the data, methods and infrastructure used to sense, model and run cities.
  tags:
    - urban informatics
    - smart cities
    - data
    - remote sensing
    - open access
book:
  authors:
    - Wenzhong Shi (ed.)
    - Michael F. Goodchild (ed.)
    - Michael Batty (ed.)
    - Mei-Po Kwan (ed.)
    - Anshu Zhang (ed.)
  publisher: Springer Singapore
  year: 2021
  isbn: '9789811589829'
  url: 'https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-981-15-8983-6'
domains:
  - places
  - mobility
relations:
  - predicate: made_by
    target: people/michael-goodchild
  - predicate: made_by
    target: people/michael-batty
provenance:
  origin: agent
  sources:
    - title: Urban Informatics - Google Books
      url: 'https://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN9789811589829'
    - title: Crossref record for 10.1007/978-981-15-8983-6 (Urban Informatics)
      url: 'https://api.crossref.org/works/10.1007/978-981-15-8983-6'
    - title: 'Open Library: Urban Informatics'
      url: 'https://openlibrary.org/works/OL27403495W'
  created: '2026-10-17'
  reviewed: '2026-10-17'
  reviewed_by: 'Claude, from the sources listed'
  status: draft
---
This large reference covers how data and computing support the operation, management and planning of cities. It explains how embedded sensing and networked populations make a city more responsive, and how they produce real-time and crowdsourced data at scale. The book reviews the main methods, including urban remote sensing (measuring the city from satellites and aircraft), machine learning and statistical modelling. Its technical guidance covers the analytical tools for studying smart cities and how those tools feed design and policy for efficiency, the environment and equity.