The rise of smart cities : advanced structural sensing and monitoring systems The Rise of Smart Cities: Advanced Structural Sensing and Monitoring Systems provides engineers and researchers with a guide to the latest breakthroughs in the deployment of smart sensing and monitoring technologies. The book introduces readers to the latest innovations in the area of smart infrastructure enabling technologies and how they can be integrated into the planning and design of smart cities. With this book in hand readers will find a valuable reference in terms of civil infrastructure health monitoring advanced sensor network architectures smart sensing materials multifunctional material and structures crowdsourced social sensing remote sensing and aerial sensing and advanced computation in sensor networks.