Coupled Policy and Technology Development for Intelligent Urban Systems

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Efforts to decarbonize economies and the rapid rise in IoT devices, connectivity, and analytics has led to the development of intelligent infrastructure technologies at the regional, city, and building scales that can manage and allocate resources more efficiently and equitably. However, the adoption of intelligent infrastructure technologies has lagged expectations. This course examines policy barriers to adoption of intelligent infrastructure systems and adopts a didactic model that jointly explores policy and technology innovations (e.g. public-private partnerships) that speed the adoption in support of advancing the joint goals of decarbonization, sustainability, equity of resource access, and quality of life. The course will first focus on broad urban-scale policy issues, then sharpen focus to the implementation of building-scale technology solutions for human-centric design and operations management.