Metro Sapiens  (English, Paperback, Chokkalingam Prof R V M)

Human Species is now predominantly an urban-dwelling creature- called Urban Sapiens. Cities are arguably the most complex human creation with built in environments, social networks, modified ecologies, economic systems, and political entities. Cities have become an organic and necessary part of human civilization. A fundamental aim of sustainability is to preserve the existence of our species and so we embrace urbanism as a human quality to achieve that end. The author takes the reader through this definitive source book into the lives of Urban Sapiens, and provides a thick description on urban spaces. The tragic landscape of highway strips, parking lots, housing tracts, shopping malls, junked city centres, and ravaged countryside are an expression of our economic predicaments. The timely book explores the range of theoretical and empirical factors that shape the characteristics of Urban Sprawl. The open book draws together cross-disciplinary overview of Digital Urbanism characterized by the key phrases of data-driven society, and knowledge-intensive society. The author explores the fundamental convergence of new digital technologies, tools, and devices in the current narrative of Smart City development. The book highlights that cities must determine to make them a place for Smart Citizens to not only want to live in, but to improve and reap the value of what makes the place special.