1. The Future City
Will connecting people to
Information change the
world?
Presented by Masaki Ozawa
27/06/2012

2. CQ: comprehensive
• How can we make our lives more
smarter?

3. DQ1: experience
• Have you ever used Information and
Communication applications? Such
as…

7. DQ2: knowledge
• Do you know any current issues our
cities have?

8. DQ3: opinion
Making our city smarter by deploying
information applications and connecting
citizens and places.
• Are you for or against?
• And why?

9. Key Words
• Smart City
• ICT
• deploy (v.)
• distribute (v.)
• interact (v.)
• efficiency (n.)

10. What’s current issues
our cities have?
•SOURCE 1:
•Cities Need Smart Thinking. By Felicia
Jackson, on 7 June 2012. Raconteur
Media.
•http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/
raconteur-media/cities-need-smart-
thinkin_b_1578090.html

11. Contain 50 percent of world’s
population and emit 70 percent of
greenhouse gas
Two issues, rack of resources and
need of reducing costs
Efficiency!!!!!!!!
Ex. Traffic in Los Angles
Make citizens and places interacted
Deploy smart apps
Smart city is one which shares info
to improve efficiency by connecting
buildings, places, and citizens

12. What’s Smart City ?
is a next-generation model of urban
city that is managed only renewable
powers distributed and connected to
buildings, homes and cars through
smart grids to use energy maximally
efficient.
•SOURCE 2:
•‘Japan creating “smart city” of the future’. San
Francisco Chronicle. By Tomoko A. Hosaka,

14. What’s ICT?
Information and Communication
Technology
•SOURCE 3:
•Smart cities get their own operating system. By Katia
Moskvitch, on 30 September 2011.BBC News. http://
www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-15109403
•SOURCE 4:
•Researchers developing ‘smart city’ search engine. By
Laura Hopperton, on 14 June 2012

15. The concept of ‘the urban OS’.
monitors everything happened in the
city
is like nervous system.
smartphone apps to support the OS.
Search engine called ’SMART’
Search engine for multimedia environment
generated
content
Ex. at a fire accident
Efficiency!!!!!!!!!!!!

16. One amazing landscape of
the future cities…
‘Sketches of the Meta-City.’ By
Frog.
http://
designmind.frogdesign.com/
articles/sketches-of-the-

17. Images’ attributions
• Image1
– Google Map: https://maps.google.co.jp/
• Image2
– Navitime: http://www.navitime.co.jp/
• Image3
– Weather News: http://p.tl/i99e
• Image4
– ’Yokohama Smart City Project (YSCP)’.By Hideaki
Inagaki, August 11, 2010. :http://goo.gl/WkSHi