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This book examines critical topics in Smart Cities such as true sustainability and the resilience required for all cities. It explores sustainability issues in agriculture and the role of agri-technology for a sustainable future, including a city's ability to locally produce food for its residents.

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This book examines critical topics in Smart Cities such as true sustainability and the resilience required for all cities. It explores sustainability issues in agriculture and the role of agri-technology for a sustainable future, including a city's ability to locally produce food for its residents.
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Dr. Negin Minaei holds a PhD in Urbanism, a Master's degree in Architectural Engineering and a Master's degree in Environmental Psychology. She also completed a full-time Postgraduate Research Program (PGR) in Transnational Spaces (Bauhaus, Germany). Since she started her post-doctoral studies in sustainable urbanism in the UK in 2012, she has researched and authored articles and chapters on cities and environments and delivered seminars on climate change and urban challenges and Smart Cities. As a university faculty and lecturer, she has taught and researched in different universities and countries for over two decades including University of Windsor(Canada), Royal Agricultural University(UK), Shandong Agricultural University(China), IAU and Bahonar University(Iran) and Bauhaus Dessau (Germany). Currently, as a Sessional Lecturer, she is teaching 'Qualitative Research in Urban Studies' at the University of Toronto and 'Sustainable Buildings' at the Ryerson University. Also, she is a visiting scholar at the City Institute at the York University in Toronto. She started researching Smart Cities in 2015, when she was asked to write a chapter on Smart Cities. She researched and designed a course entitled Sustainable Smart Cities, approved by the Engineering Faculty at the University of Windsor and taught that course to MEng students at that university for two years. She has published books, original book chapters and articles on her main research areas such as Smart Cities, Sustainable Smart cities, Self-sufficient Cities, and Sustainable urbanism, impacts of IT, TC and advanced technologies on Global Cities, GPS and transport modes and their impacts on people's navigation and their cognitive maps, Echo-Tech architecture using active/passive solar design systems and Zero-Energy buildings. She is interested in healthy buildings, Healthy Cities, and future cities too.