GIS - Creating Powerful Tools for Smart Cities

Urbanization and its dynamic processes have created challenges to deep understanding of urban problems before making any wise management decision. GIS can not only provide strong database management tools but also enable creation of decision-making support tools. This book explains systematically about the GIS and its wide application, including GIS-based city landscape planning. Exhausted exploration of GIS application on a particular case of Ho Chi Minh City provides scientific resolutions to support the city planning and management process. Case studies provide essential technical insight and methodology which are helpful for formation of smart city's fundamental solutions.

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Dr Nguyen Anh Tuan completed his PhD in London on GIS urban and landscape planning, on a mixed background in Architecture and Landscape Architecture. Through GIS application in resolving urbanization problems of Ho Chi Minh City, he finds out directional manner of open space - a vector quantity showing hidden dimension of open space value.