Smart and Digital Cities: Innovative Design Practices and Future Exploration of New-Type Smart Cities

This book explores the emerging paradigm of Smart Digital Cities, where digital infrastructure and intelligent technologies converge to transform urban environments. It presents a structured and practice-oriented framework that addresses the evolution of smart city concepts, the integration of next-generation technologies such as AIoT, GPT, and AGI, and the design of scalable, multi-layered urban solutions. Organized into three parts―foundations, applications, and future outlook―it introduces core theories, cross-sector use cases, and forward-looking strategies including cloud-edge-device collaboration, data-driven decision-making, and industrial-urban integration. Illustrated with system models, architecture diagrams, and real-world case studies, the book emphasizes practical innovations while offering strategic insights for policy and technology development. It is a valuable resource for researchers, engineers, planners, and graduate students engaged in smart city design, digital transformation, and sustainable urban development.

Fangfen Liu (Angela) is the Chief Engineer of Gloryview Technology Co., Ltd., Guangzhou, China and a Professorate Senior Engineer. She has served as expert at the Guangdong Provincial Department of Science and Technology, the Guangzhou Municipal Bureau of Industry and Information Technology, WELL AP (American Healthy Building Appraiser), and member of the Advisory Committee (EAC) of Macau University of Science and Technology. With 21 years of experience in planning, design and implementation in the field of information and intelligent cities. She has reviewed one industrial standard, and participated in the compilation of 3 group standards, and won multiple awards, including "Outstanding Engineering Designer in the Intelligent Building Industry in 2012", "Excellence Award in the Intelligent Building Industry Designer Competition in 2018", "Pioneer Figure in the Internet of Things in 2021", etc. Her projects won awards and certifications such as "Science and Technology Demonstration Project", "Green Building Label" (12 items), near-zero energy consumption, Platinum-level WELL, Platinum-level LEED, etc.