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Concrete, data and town planning
How to build Smart Cities as if people mattered
Dr Rick Robinson FBCS CITP FRSA AoU, IT Director, Smart Data and Technology
[email protected] http://theurbantechnologist.com @dr_rick
Data
Image from “The Information Capital”, James Cheshire and Oliver Uberti http://theinformationcapital.com/
Brutal urbanism
Photo of Masshouse Circus, Birmingham, before its redevelopment, by Birmingham City Councilhttp://www.birmingham.gov.uk/cs/Satellite?c=Page&childpagename=Planning-Management%2FPageLayout&cid=1223092740947&pagename=BCC%2FCommon%2FWrapper%2FWrapper
Smart urbanism
Images and concept from Kelvin Campbell’s “Smart Urbanism” movement:http://www.smarturbanism.org.uk/
Massive / Small: what are the characteristics of cities that give rise to “massive” amounts of “small-scale” innovation?
Photo of Jane Jacobs by Michèl Champagnehttp://www.mediamatic.net/104796/en/jane-jacobs-ideas-that-matter
Photo of Christopher Alexander by Eugene Kimhttp://www.flickr.com/photos/eekim/5686194142/
1. Broadband connectivity
2. Cloud computing3. Mobile and
smartphones4. Social media5. The touchscreen6. Open source software7. Intelligent hardware
8. Open APIs9. Open data10. Open standards11. Mundane interfaces12. Identity stores13. Maps and
geolocation14. Social enterprise
15. Alternative currencies16. The “sharing economy”17. Information partnerships18. Regeneration &
incubation19. Sustainable business20. Intelligent infrastructure21. Local energy22. Insight without certainty
Smarter City Design Patterns:http://theurbantechnologist.com/design-patterns/http://theurbantechnologist.com/2014/07/01/12-simple-technologies-for-cities-that-are-smart-open-and-fair/
http://asmarterplanet.com/blog/2013/05/inspiring-social-sustainability-one-village-at-a-time.html
http://www.syngentafoundation.org/index.cfm?pageID=562
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sponsored/sport/rugby-trytracker/10630406/ibm-big-data-analytics-dublin.html
Smarter cities “as if people mattered”
Smart Hack Birmingham 2012
Coders taking part in “Smart Hack” at Birmingham Science Park Aston in 2012 by Sebastian Lenton: https://twitter.com/sebastianlenton
Translational thinking
Photo by lecercle of a girl in Mumbai doing her
homework on whatever flat surface she could find:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/lecercle/439745670/ Ma
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e /
sm
all A US Department of Agriculture inspector examines a shipment
of imported frozen meat in New Orleans in 2013. Photo by Anson
Eaglin: https://www.flickr.com/photos/usdagov/11325445264
Little / big
Top-down / bottom-up
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Thankyou
Dr Rick Robinson FBCS CITP FRSA AoU, IT Director, Smart Data and Technology
[email protected] http://theurbantechnologist.com @dr_rick