Book structure

This book gathers everything the Digital Twin team has learned about building city digital twins for decision support systems in urban governance, drawn from more than 30 years of work.

The open book “City Digital Twin” has 11 chapters:

1. Annotation — Purpose, scope, and user groups of the platform

2. Problem domain — The current state of city management and its key challenges

3. Goals of the system — Strategic goals and the rationale for building the CDT

4. Platform objectives — Functional tasks at every level of governance

5. General architecture of the platform — Architectural vision, principles, and system tiers

6. Functional architecture — Functional blocks, modeling, and analytics

7. Component architecture — Technical components, ETL, data stores, and APIs

8. Types of support — Information, software, hardware, and organizational support

9. Results — Reports, datasets, and modeling outputs

10. Effects — Economic, social, and managerial impact of adoption

11. Conclusion — Takeaways, the case for adoption, and where we go next

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