MetaCity: Data-driven sustainable development of complex cities.
Yunke Zhang, Yuming Lin, Guanjie Zheng, Yu Liu, Nicholas Sukiennik, Fengli Xu, Yongjun Xu, Feng Lu, Qi Wang, Yuan Lai, Li Tian, Nan Li, Dongping Fang, Fei Wang, Tao Zhou, Yong Li, Yu Zheng, Zhiqiang Wu, Huadong Guo
Author Information
Yunke Zhang: Department of Electronic Engineering, Beijing National Research Center for Information Science and Technology (BNRist), Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China.
Yuming Lin: Department of Electronic Engineering, Beijing National Research Center for Information Science and Technology (BNRist), Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China.
Guanjie Zheng: John Hopcroft Center for Computer Science, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China.
Yu Liu: Department of Electronic Engineering, Beijing National Research Center for Information Science and Technology (BNRist), Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China.
Nicholas Sukiennik: Department of Electronic Engineering, Beijing National Research Center for Information Science and Technology (BNRist), Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China.
Fengli Xu: Department of Electronic Engineering, Beijing National Research Center for Information Science and Technology (BNRist), Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China.
Yongjun Xu: University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China.
Feng Lu: University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China.
Qi Wang: Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Northeastern University, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
Yuan Lai: School of Architecture, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China.
Li Tian: School of Architecture, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China.
Nan Li: School of Civil Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China.
Dongping Fang: School of Civil Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China.
Fei Wang: University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China.
Tao Zhou: Big Data Research Center, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu 611731, China.
Yong Li: Department of Electronic Engineering, Beijing National Research Center for Information Science and Technology (BNRist), Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China.
Cities are complex systems that develop under complicated interactions among their human and environmental components. Urbanization generates substantial outcomes and opportunities while raising challenges including congestion, air pollution, inequality, etc., calling for efficient and reasonable solutions to sustainable developments. Fortunately, booming technologies generate large-scale data of complex cities, providing a chance to propose data-driven solutions for sustainable urban developments. This paper provides a comprehensive overview of data-driven urban sustainability practice. In this review article, we conceptualize MetaCity, a general framework for optimizing resource usage and allocation problems in complex cities with data-driven approaches. Under this framework, we decompose specific urban sustainable goals, e.g., efficiency and resilience, review practical urban problems under these goals, and explore the probability of using data-driven technologies as potential solutions to the challenge of complexity. On the basis of extensive urban data, we integrate urban problem discovery, operation of urban systems simulation, and complex decision-making problem solving into an entire cohesive framework to achieve sustainable development goals by optimizing resource allocation problems in complex cities.
