The document reviews Day 1 of a conference on connecting cities for sustainable living. It discusses how cities face challenges from urbanization, aging infrastructure, climate change and economic crisis. Stories were shared about innovative solutions. For cities to be 75% of the climate solution, there needs to be a common vision to accelerate change. Information and connectivity between citizens and government can help overcome challenges of scale as 180,000 new people move to cities each day. A vision is proposed for a connected, sustainable city where information sharing and collaboration across sectors through a network can change how cities are planned and managed.

1. Review of Day 1
Connecting Cities for Sustainable Living: An Urban Revolution
Martin Stewart‐Weeks, IBSG (A/Pac)

2. Remember what Nic said?
• We confront a perfect storm…
urbanisation, ageing, infrastructure
renewal, climate change, an
unprecedented financial and economic
crisis
• We then heard lots of stories based on
deep insight, smart thinking and
innovation
• The question now is how does it all
start to come together in a plan for
change ‐ a common vision that will
motivate and accelerate execution

3. Cities are 75% of the problem…
• …so they have to be 75% of the solution
If you get it right in the
city, you get it right

4. Scale and speed
• Every day 180k…
• A new city of 1 million every week for the
next 30 years…
How do cities keep up
– quality, access and cost

5. Parking tickets in NYC
• What happens when an immovable object
(traditional government silos and
processes) meets an irresistible force
(social networking + citizen engagement)?
Trying to change the way
government works…

6. Squaring the sustainability triangle
Economic
Social
Environmental

7. Changing behaviour
• EcoMap, PTA, Cisco Bangalore, Senseable
City…?
• Information is the key (lots of it,
everywhere, telling us things…)
Closing the gap between
knowledge and action

8. An idea
Information , communication and
collaboration, enabled and accelerated
by the network as a critical
infrastructure, changes the way we
think about, design, build, manage and
renew sustainable cities

9. Integrate
Converge
Connect

10. Platform for Urban Services
• Providing common services that are
needed by different parts of the city…
• … on a platform that is designed and
provisioned on a whole‐of‐city basis.

11. People and
community (live,
play, work and learn)
Economic
Buildings Putting the pieces resilience
?
together: a vision
for the connected
sustainable city
Transport and Culture and
mobility creativity

12. Our motto?
“Only connect! …live in
fragments no longer”
EM Forster: Howards End (1910)