Unifying the Field of Digital Twins for Urban Management: Theoretical Foundations and Practical Applications

Unifying the Field of Digital Twins for Urban Management presents a holistic and integrated approach to the rapidly evolving field of digital twins for urban management. The framework offers a structured approach that encompasses both theoretical underpinnings and practical applications. It aims to provide a foundation to support enhanced decision-making, optimised resource utilisation, and improved urban resilience and sustainability. The book aims to address a lack of consistency, coherence and uniformity within current approaches, and offers a unified framework to facilitate collaboration and knowledge exchange across diverse areas, such as urban management, systems thinking, data science and social science. Key features include a systematic framework (DATUM) to unify the field of digital twins for urban management coverage of theoretical foundations and a step-by-step methodology to guide digital twin-based interventions a standardised language to facilitate classification, documentation and communication of digital twin use cases validation of the DATUM framework through a combination of focus group research, case studies and action research, ensuring applicability and effectiveness. Unifying the Field of Digital Twins for Urban Management is designed for a wide audience, including digital twin practitioners, researchers, urban managers and policy makers interested in harnessing the potential of digital twins to improve urban environments.Unifying the Field of Digital Twins for Urban Management: Theoretical Foundations and Practical Applications is written by Ramy Elsehrawy; Bimal Kumar and published by ICE Publishing. ISBNs for Unifying the Field of Digital Twins for Urban Management are 9781836622369, 1836622368 and the print ISBNs are 9781836622352, 183662235X. Additional ISBNs include 9781836622345.