Urban Intelligence for Planetary Health

Abstract

The health of human-being and our planet are incessantly interlinked, and such links often exist in the context of cities. This article articulates urban intelligence as an essential capacity for cities to be more adaptive and responsive to face the risks in the context of climate change and global pandemics. Urban intelligence includes data intelligence, design intelligence, and crowd intelligence, which collectively contribute to planetary health with better understandings in cities’ complex physical-environmental-technical-social dynamics. In the long run, urban intelligence supports cities by enabling a better conceptual understanding of human-earth conflicts, transdisciplinary research in the science of the cities, and governmental collaborations at the local and global scale.

Planetary Health and Nursing Informatics

“…Nursing informatics are experts in promoting data standards to support data sharing and integration across systems. Endorsing data standards can also provide a significant opportunity to leverage data knowledge and accelerate needed data-driven Planetary Health solutions such as artificial intelligence 27,28 . Future research should focus on developing a unifying Planetary Health informatics agenda that may include a Planetary Health taxonomy 29 .…”

“…Endorsing data standards can also provide a significant opportunity to leverage data knowledge and accelerate needed data-driven Planetary Health solutions such as artificial intelligence. 27,28 Future research should focus on developing a unifying Planetary Health informatics agenda that may include a Planetary Health taxonomy. 29 This shared taxonomy can facilitate communication and data exchange across multiple fields (eg, environmental and public health).…”

Urban Intelligence for Carbon Neutral Cities: Creating Synergy among Data, Analytics, and Climate Actions

“…Urban intelligence is a capability to gain contextual and situational awareness by perceiving information, analyzing data, generating knowledge, and directing responses, behaviors, and decisions for a better outcome in cities [11]. It represents a bundle of intelligence, including data intelligence, design intelligence, and crowd intelligence, with various social and technical factors [12]. Distinct from smart cities, urban intelligence emphasizes digitalization and analytical capacity based on old and new urban dynamics.…”

“…Meanwhile, the recent development of digital technology and smart city applications has rapidly transformed cities' planning, operation, and governance [8,9]. Such transformation further enables urban intelligence, a core capacity to translate the high-level climate strategy into actionable insights with technological innovation and operational improvement [10][11][12].…”