Why do we need to live in a smart city? Rapid urbanization causes compelling city problems worldwide, such as housing, traffic, schooling, healthcare, employment, and pollution. Numerous smart-city scholars and practitioners have attempted to tackle these problems but lack an integrated approach and practical implementation tools to solve them. This book explains how to build digital twin metaverse cities aimed to accelerate urban digital transformation through emerging technologies. Youll start by identifying a problem statement, designing a novel digital twin metaverse architecture, reviewing emerging technologies as building blocks and showcasing interesting applications. Youll then review state-of-the-art digital twin metaverse development tools and present readers with interesting engineering prototypes of my proposed digital twin smart cities. Finally, youll discover how to avoid some management pitfalls during the construction of innovative smart cities, including project management, change management, leadership skills, and modern management information systems. With Building Digital Twin Metaverse Cities youll work with a novel architectural design and use the latest technologies as building blocks to construct smart cities of your own. What You'll Learn Explore complex issues arising from rapid urbanization. Discover how emerging technologies like 5G, IoT, and AI can solve urban problems. Master the digital twinning process powered by the Data Analytics Flywheel. Explore core and enabling technologies shaping Digital Twin Metaverse Cities. Gain hands-on experience with development tools and prototypes for smart city applications. Who This Book Is For Professionals who want to learn emerging technologies and digital twin metaverse development tools to construct innovative smart cities to solve the current pressing urbanization problems. General readers like city residents and government officials worldwide, who are suffering from the growing pains of rapid urbanization and looking for effective smart city solutions using new technologies and methodology. Smart city researchers and college students wanting to build smart projects for urban digital transformation and smart Xs (everything).