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Why do we need to live in a smart city? Rapid urbanization causes compelling city problems worldwide, such as housing, traffic, schooling, healthcare, employment, and pollution. Numerous smart-city scholars and practitioners have attempted to tackle these problems but lack an integrated approach and practical implementation tools to solve them. This book explains how to build digital twin metaverse cities aimed to accelerate urban digital transformation through emerging technologies. You’ll start by identifying a problem statement, designing a novel digital twin metaverse architecture, reviewing emerging technologies as building blocks and showcasing interesting applications. You’ll then review state-of-the-art digital twin metaverse development tools and present readers with interesting engineering prototypes of my proposed digital twin smart cities. Finally, you’ll discover how to avoid some management pitfalls during the construction of innovative smart cities, including project management, change management, leadership skills, and modern management information systems. With Building Digital Twin Metaverse Cities you’ll work with a novel architectural design and use the latest technologies as building blocks to construct smart cities of your own. What You'll Learn Explore complex issues arising from rapid urbanization. Discover how emerging technologies like 5G, IoT, and AI can solve urban problems. Master the digital twinning process powered by the Data Analytics Flywheel. Explore core and enabling technologies shaping Digital Twin Metaverse Cities. Gain hands-on experience with development tools and prototypes for smart city applications. Who This Book Is For Professionals who want to learn emerging technologies and digital twin metaverse development tools to construct innovative smart cities to solve the current pressing urbanization problems. General readers like city residents and government officials worldwide, who are suffering from the growing pains of rapid urbanization and looking for effective smart city solutions using new technologies and methodology. Smart city researchers and college students wanting to build smart projects for urban digital transformation and smart Xs (everything).

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Dr. Samuel Li has 23 years of intensive management and leadership experiences in global ICT multinationals, including Nortel, Nokia, Motorola, BTI, Linaro and Anhub in USA, Canada, and Asia. He is credited with successful technology management for the world’s first touchscreen Linux smartphone: Motorola A760, the global first Nokia mobile Internet applications: MIA, and pioneering Android mobile platform: SavajeOS. Dr Li also has over 10 years of high education teaching experience. He is currently actively engaging in academic research and teaching roles at Northeastern University, Anna Maria College, University Canada West, University of Waterloo, University of Toronto, Hangzhou Dianzi University, and Zhejiang University of Technology. He holds an MBA degree from University of Toronto, Global Executive MBA program, a Master’s degree of System Design Engineering, and a Bachelor’ degree in Computer Sciences. He is currently pursuing a PhD in Management Sciences from the University of Waterloo, focusing on advanced study in the Internet platform sharing economy, big data/AI/machine learning, and online trust and reputation systems. Dr Li has also published various papers and books in subjects of IT management, digital transformation, data analytics, machine learning, AI, etc.  

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