Description

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Cities are without a doubt one of the miracles of human creation and the embodiment of the human environment. Insofar as they are large and densely populated human settlements with defined legal and political boundaries that comprise clusters of buildings, open spaces, public facilities and infrastructure, cities are mainly spaces of services that are exchanged between a wide variety of stakeholders-namely, residents, traders, visitors, and the city authorities. Moreover, the provision of cities' services has profound effect on the local and global sustainability. Thus, municipal services should comprise environmental, social, and economic values, which are designed, produced, and delivered in concert. Over the years, a variety of new urban models and concepts have been designed and proposed as viable means to reestablish the bond between the human and the natural environments, to increase the quality of life within cities and to reduce the impacts that cities have on the social and natural environments (e.g., sustainable city, smart city, or resilient city). Herein, a new model of the service city is presented, including architecture and several pertinent examples, which considers it as a platform that manages and integrates the services and systems currently provided by the city while offering additional supporting services to increase the effectiveness of the value and to achieve the goal of sustainability.

About the Author

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Prof Adi Wolfson is Sami Shamoon College of Engineering (Beer-Sheva, Israel) chemical engineering department head and one of the founders of Shamoon's Green Processes Center. Prof Wolfson earned his PhD summa cum laude in chemical engineering at Ben-Gurion University (Beer-Sheva, Israel) and has worked in the field of green chemistry and engineering for the last 20 years, working mainly on catalytic applications in organic reactions and alternative environmentally friendly solvents. In the last few years, Prof Wolfson has worked in the field of sustainable services, and his pioneering work has been published in verity of journals and in two books. Prof Wolfson is also working with the national and local authorities as well as with the industry on imbuing sustainability and sustainable development in Israel.