Digital Twins for Smart Metabolic Circular Cities. Innovations in Planning and Climate Resilience. Smart Cities

Table of Contents

Part 1: Integrating Digital Twins and Circular Metabolism in Urban Environments
1. Introduction to Digital Twins for Smart Metabolic Circular Cities: Foundations, Technologies, Practices, and Emerging Trends
2. Modelling Urban Metabolism as a Complex Heterogeneous Graph to Incentivize Environmentally Sustainable Practices
3. Creating a Universal Semantic Material Bank: Integrating Digital Twins and Semantic Web Technologies for Circular Urban Mining
4. Application of Computational Technologies in Smart Metabolic Circular Cities
5. Catalyzing Smart Urban Metabolism through Entrepreneurial Ecosystem Infrastructures: A Regional Approach to Planning and Implementation

Part 2: Digital Twins for Sustainable Urban Planning and Climate Resilience
6. Leveraging Digital Twins for Zero-Energy Building Ratings in Sustainable Smart Cities: A Comprehensive Review and Novel Framework
7. Utilizing City Digital Twins to Understand and Mitigate Climate Change Risks: A Roadmap
8. Geospatial Digital Twins: Applications in Sustainable Urban Planning
9. Urban Digital Twin for Resilient Urban Planning: Opportunities and Challenges in the Global South
10. Urban Heat Island Mitigation with the Urbesgg Digital Twins Platform: A Case Study of Pra�a XV de Novembro, Florian�polis-SC, Brazil

Authors

Simon Elias Bibri Institute of Computer and Communication Sciences, School of Architecture, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Media and Design Laboratory, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland.

Dr. Simon Elias Bibri is Senior Research Scientist and Project Coordinator at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL), Institute of Computer and Communication Sciences (IINFCOM), School of Architecture, Civil and Environmental Engineering (ENAC). He has a diverse professional background, having served as Head of Computer Department, Software and IT Business Engineer, Project Manager, Green ICT and Environmental Sustainability Strategist, Research Associate, Consultant, and Assistant Professor. Currently, he serves as an Expert in Artificial Intelligence and Applied Machine Learning for Climate Action for UNFCCC, an International Expert in Sustainable Cities for UNIDO, and an Expert for Focus Group for Smart Sustainable Cities, Digital Twins, and Environmental Sustainability for ITU. He also holds the position of Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Environmental Studies at Francis and Taylor Group. Dr. Bibri's holds a Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering and an Advanced Management Program (AMP) degree. Notably, he earned multiple Master's degrees from esteemed Swedish universities, namely Lund University, West University, Blekinge Institute of Technology, Stockholm University, Malm� University, and Mid-Sweden University. Additionally, he received his PhD in Computer Science from NTNU, specializing in Computational Technology and Urban Informatics, with a focus on data-driven smart sustainable cities. Dr. Bibri's has published numerous peer-reviewed articles and conference proceedings, authored 6 books, edited 2 books, and co-edited 7 books, published by Springer, Elsevier, and Routledge.

Tan Yigitcanlar Professor of Urban Studies and Planning, School of Architecture and Built Environment, Civil Engineering and Built Environment, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia. Tan Yigitcanlar is an eminent researcher with international recognition and impact in urban studies and planning. He is a Professor of Urban Studies and Planning at the School of Architecture and Built Environment, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia. Along with this post, he is an Honorary Professor at the School of Technology, Federal University of Santa Catarina, Florianopolis, Brazil, and the Founding Director position of the Australia-Brazil Smart City Research and Practice Network. His research is clustered around three interdisciplinary themes: Smart technologies, communities, cities, and urbanism; Sustainable and resilient cities, communities, and urban ecosystems; Knowledge-based development of cities and innovation districts. His research findings are disseminated in over 250 articles published in high-impact journals and 18 key reference books. Amongst urban and regional planning scholars, 2020 Science-wide Author Databases of Standardised Citation Indicators ranked him as #1 highly cited researcher in Australia and #7 worldwide. Jeffrey Huang Institute of Architecture and the City, Ecole Polytechnique F�d�rale de Lausanne, Switzerland.

Jeffrey Huang is the Director of the Institute of Architecture and the City at the Ecole Polytechnique F�d�rale de Lausanne in Switzerland (EPFL). He is also the Head of the Media x Design Laboratory and a Full Professor in Architecture and Computer Science at EPFL. He holds a DiplArch from ETH Zurich, and Masters and Doctoral Degrees from Harvard University, where he was awarded the Gerald McCue medal for academic excellence. Prior to EPFL, he was a researcher at MIT's Sloan School of Management, and Associate Professor at Harvard University's Graduate School of Design. He was also a Visiting Professor at Tsinghua University, a Visiting Fellow at Stanford University's d.school, a Honorary Visiting Professor at the University of Sheffield, and a Berkman Fellow and Faculty Associate at Harvard. In collaboration with Muriel Waldvogel, he founded and co-heads Convergeo, an award-winning, international strategic design firm.