Evolving Intelligent Environments: Smart Ecosystems and Transformative Innovations in the 21st Century (Routledge Advances in Regional Economics, Science and Policy)

There is growing global interest in understanding how digital technologies and physical spaces, particularly within the framework of digital and green agendas, can transform cities, influence behaviour, and stimulate innovation.This book advances a novel and interdisciplinary framework for understanding intelligent environments, grounded in the concept of connected intelligence, the integration of human, collective, and machine intelligence. It explores how this integration operates within real-world smart ecosystems to drive transformative innovations in sustainability, carbon neutrality, urban efficiency, and liveability.Departing from approaches that treat intelligent systems as purely technological constructs, such as urban Artificial Intelligence (AI), cyber-physical infrastructure, digital twins, and machine learning vision, it reframes intelligent environments as socio-technical systems that remain fundamentally human-centric, even in the age of AI.It distinguishes itself from e