This book explores the recent advances in the leading paradigms of urbanism, namely compact cities, eco-cities, and data–driven smart cities, and the evolving approach to their amalgamation under the umbrella term of smart sustainable cities. It addresses these advances by investigating how and to what extent the strategies of compact cities and eco-cities and their merger have newly been enhanced and strengthened through planning and development practices, and are being harnessed and leveraged by the technology solutions pertaining to data-driven smart cities. The ultimate goal is to improve sustainability and enable its synergistic effects on multiple scales. This entails developing and implementing more effective ways to contribute to, and support the balancing between, the three goals of sustainability, as well as to produce combined effects of the strategies and solutions of the three currently prevailing approaches to urbanism that are greater than the sum of their separate effects in terms of the tripartite value of sustainability.Sustainable urban development is today seen as one of the keys towards unlocking the quest for a sustainable world. And big data analytics and the IoT as emerging technologies are seen as powerful forces that have tremendous potential for advancing urban sustainability. They are instigating a massive change in the way sustainable cities can tackle the kind of special conundrums, wicked problems, and complex challenges they inherently embody. Indeed, they offer a multitudinous array of alternative and novel applied solutions and sophisticated approaches informed by groundbreaking scholarly research, enabled by data–driven science. As such, they are becoming essential to the functioning of sustainable cities. Consequently, related practices and processes are becoming highly responsive to a form of data–driven urbanism. Especially, yet knowing to what extent we are making progress towards sustainable cities is problematic, adding to the fragmented, conflicting picture that arises of change on the ground in the face of the expanding urbanization. Hence, it has been suggested that sustainable cities need to embrace what emerging ICT has to offer, so as to improve and advance their contribution to sustainability. In a nutshell, new circumstances require new responses. This timely and multifaceted book is intended for a wide readership. As such, it will appeal to researchers, academics, urban scientists, urbanists, planners, designers, policy-makers, and futurists, as well as all readers interested in an overview of sustainable cities and their ongoing data-driven transformation. weiterlesen