smart cities.
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.