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The main goal of the UAB Sustainable Smart Cities Research Center (SSCRC) is to foster cross-disciplinary research, training, and outreach that integrates health, socio-economic impacts, and infrastructure design for the purpose of developing innovative solutions within emerging sustainable smart cities and communities. Specifically, the Center brings together multidisciplinary faculty with diverse expertise—green construction materials; sustainable building and design concepts; social impacts of technology; modeling and simulation; medical sociology, health informatics, and social psychology; public health, emergency preparedness and response, and community resiliency; and government and public policy—to develop tools and methods for sustainable infrastructure design.

The SSCRC was established to serve as an enabling platform to become an agent of change in public policy and to shift the paradigm of urban infrastructure to one that is economically affluent, environmentally responsible, and socially equitable.