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What
Kind of
Problem
a City
Is?
432 Park Avenue
One57
495-room Drake Hotel
Edificio España
Order
Solidified Chaos?
Cities are often seem as works of art...
Paris
Rio
Ulan Bator
Mumbai
Nairobi
Urbanization: The pressure to Aglomerate
Year 1900: 200M people lived in cities, 12% of world populationYear 2015: 3,500M people live in cities, 50% of world populationYear 2050: 6,500M people will live in cities, 80% of world population
China will build the equivalent of New York every other year for 20 years
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Why Economists still like Cities
There is a near perfect correlation between
urbanization and prosperity across nations
Songdo
Cities happen to be problems in organized complexity
Jane Jacobs
Urban Problems are “Wicked” Problems
What you see is not what you get…when it comes to cities
Cities are now regarded as being in a
perpetual state of disequilibriumA city is not something that is planned from
the top down but emerges organicallyCities are beginning to be interpreted as
fractal structuresCities change in shape as they change in
size, and we usually call this allometryHow to model the generic processes that generate physical form
Are cities part of biology? Is London a great big whale? Is Edinburgh a horse?
Geoffrey West
Innovation Machines
Proximity has become ever more valuable as the cost of connecting across long distances has fallen. cities aren’t structures; cities are people. (Edward Glaeser, “The Triumph of the City”)
Cities are devices that enable us to communicate. Cities are places where people come together to “interact” with one another. (Michael Batty, “The New Science of Cities”)
21st Century Gardens
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An inconvenient truth?
In the Future, Companies Will Survive Only if They Help Solve Big Social Problems
Thank you
Francisco J. Jariego@fjjariego
Art & Science
Cover Image• Nagib KARSAN Numero 192, Venice http://goo.gl/6NkIBg
The Wonder City You May Live to See• Popular Science Monthly, August 1925
Cities happen to be problems in organized complexity• Jane Jacobs, “The Death and Live of Great American Cities” http://goo.gl/UfdQXs
What you see is not what you get• Michael Batty, “Cities as Complex Systems” http://goo.gl/yr2Z8W
Are cities part of biology?• Geoffrey West, “The surprising math of cities and corporations” TED Talk http://goo.gl/1VBACy• Geoffrey West et. al. “Growth, innovation, scaling, and the pace of life in cities” http://goo.gl/sG9Yq4
21 Century Gardens• Van Gogh-Roosegaarde bicycle path https://goo.gl/54xUvr• Newman & Kenworthy, Transport Related Energy Consumption, Gigajoules per capita per year, https://goo.gl/MWpfFP
Innovation Machines• Michael Batty, “The New Science of Cities” http://goo.gl/LK8mlm• Edward Glaeser, “The Triumph of the City” http://goo.gl/QiuMB3