Smart Urban Safety and Security

Interdisciplinary Perspectives
2025
ISBN: 978-981-97-2195-5
Verlag: Springer Nature Singapore

Buch, Englisch, 317 Seiten, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 561 g

This open access book explores the use of technologies for urban safety and security. Rather than focusing on the technologies themselves, it provides and in-depth analysis of the complex urban transformations linked to the increasing integration of technical systems in the built environment. Interdisciplinary contributions explain how technologies can improve urban safety, whilst offering a broader discussion relative to urban, socio-economic and political factors. Against simplistic techno-solutionist ideas, the authors illustrate the role of technology as means to an end and show how technologies can widen our understanding of safety and security. Readers are introduced to issues relative to the practical implementation, development, and testing of urban technologies via numerous case studies from cities around the world.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Autero, Anniina

Karppi, Ilari

de Moraes Batista Simao, Marcela

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Humangeographie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Stadt- und Regionalsoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Kommunal-, Regional-, und Landespolitik
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Rechtswissenschaften Strafrecht Kriminologie, Strafverfolgung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1. Introduction: Changing Security, Transforming Governance (Paul-Erik Korvela, Anniina Autero & Marcela Simão).- Chapter 2. New outlines of space and time (Cedrick Gomes).- Chapter 3. Envisioning the New Urban Informatics (Teija Vainio).- Chapter 4. Beetles, Bats and Octopuses: Thought-Experiments and Language Technology for Moral Machines (Nick Melgaard).- Chapter 5. What is urban resilience from risk management to holistic urban development (Konstantina Karydi).- Chapter 6. Safe cities, safe events? (Remco Spithoven, Jelle Brands & Elsa Foppen).- Chapter 7. People, City and Security: Urban Interfaces at the Age of Events (Ilari Karppi & Iina Sankala).- Chapter 8. Command and Control for City Events: the Rio de Janeiro Operations Center Experience (Pedro Martins & Alexandre Hojda).- Chapter 9. Simulated trust. Creating situational awareness in a multi-actor security exercise (Ilari Karppi, Iina Sankala, Henry Joutsijoki & Sari Mäenpää).- Chapter 10. Crowd counting in action: Observations from SURE project (Henry Joutsijoki & Sari Mäenpää).- Chapter 11. How to tune our sonic sense of safety (Ari Koivumäki).- Chapter 12. Urban Mobility, Flow of People and Mega Events: the case of the Rio de Janeiro 2016 Olympic Games (Simone Silva & Jaqueline Torres).- Chapter 13. Towards ethically acceptable AI security systems through agent modeling: Shopping mall security (Jyrki Nummenmaa, Jaana Hallamaa, Tomi Janhunen, Timo Nummenmaa & Pertti Saariluoma).- Chapter 14. Accounting for Social Value in Urban Security: The Social Return on Investment of SURE (Alisa Jashari, Anniina Autero & Marcela Simão).

Über Autor(innen)

Anniina Autero (PhD) is leading Smart urban security and event resilience work for the City of Tampere, Finland. She teaches and does research on safety and security and public economy. She has been a visiting scholar at the University of Colorado, Denver, and Stanford University, California, USA.

Ilari Karppi (PhD) is adjunct professor of Regional Studies at Tampere University, Finland. He teaches and researches visionary urban governance and complex adaptive systems in sustainable urban and regional development. His other research interests include transit-oriented development, smart urbanism and strategic urban planning.

Marcela de Moraes Batista Simão (PhD) is currently working as a specialist in Sustainability and Smart City for the City of Tampere, Finland, developing projects for the city. She has developed research on safety and security and sustainability. She was a doctoral exchange fellow at the Swiss Federal Instituteof Technology Lausanne.