The
research of the Smart Cities group focuses upon intelligent, sustainable
buildings, mobility systems, and cities. It explores the application of new
technologies to enabling urban energy efficiency and sustainability, enhanced
opportunity and equity, and cultural creativity.
Buildings and cities can usefully be compared to living bodies. They have skeleton and skin systems that provide shelter and protection to their inhabitants, metabolic systems that process inputs of materials and energy to support daily life, and now artificial nervous systems consisting of sensors, networks, and ubiquitously embedded computational capacity. Smart Cities is particularly concerned with the emerging roles of networked intelligence in fabrication and construction, urban mobility, building design and intelligently responsive operation, and public space. It takes a broadly multidisciplinary approach, and is not constrained by traditional professional boundaries.
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