This document summarizes initiatives from various cities to improve liveability through new technologies, social inclusion, long-term visioning, and culture. It discusses how Auckland uses hackathons to create apps, Seoul uses big data for bus routes, and Penang introduces gender budgeting. It also mentions Medellin's mayor staying on as advisor for stability, and shares views on innovation from leaders in Taipei and Hong Kong.
City as a Service: How to Design a New Urban Experience - Yegor Korobeynikov ...Service Design Network
DAY TWO – OCT 3rd 2015 at Global Service Design Conference NYC
AFTERNOON SESSIONS / / SYSTEM CHANGE / CULTURE CHANGE
more info at: http://bit.ly/1PoNvbj
2014 12-18 From Smart Cities to Smart CitizensGilles Betis
Presentation done during the EIT ICT Labs Urban Life and Mobility end-year event in Issy les Moulineaux on December 18th, 2014.
http://www.eitictlabs.eu/innovation-areas/urban-life-and-mobility/
Overview introduction of the digital urban governance non-profit development organisation Good City Foundation, its ecosystem, history and venture buildings, with a vision of digitalisation for all.
Partnership Inquiry : community@futurecitysummit.org
City as a Service: How to Design a New Urban Experience - Yegor Korobeynikov ...Service Design Network
DAY TWO – OCT 3rd 2015 at Global Service Design Conference NYC
AFTERNOON SESSIONS / / SYSTEM CHANGE / CULTURE CHANGE
more info at: http://bit.ly/1PoNvbj
2014 12-18 From Smart Cities to Smart CitizensGilles Betis
Presentation done during the EIT ICT Labs Urban Life and Mobility end-year event in Issy les Moulineaux on December 18th, 2014.
http://www.eitictlabs.eu/innovation-areas/urban-life-and-mobility/
Overview introduction of the digital urban governance non-profit development organisation Good City Foundation, its ecosystem, history and venture buildings, with a vision of digitalisation for all.
Partnership Inquiry : community@futurecitysummit.org
To celebrate the launch of Charlottesville's Open Data site, I shared some experience and vision for how to make the city truly collaborative with the community.
Drawing Futures Together. Diagrams for the Design of Scenarios of Liveable Ci...serena pollastri
Presentation for RSD3 symposium - October 2014, AHO Oslo.
Proceedings will soon be available here: http://systemic-design.net/
Abstract:
This work introduces an ongoing research project that seeks to develop appropriate visual techniques for the design of future scenarios that are able to capture interdependencies within and across different systems. These design methods are being explored as part of a wider research on the future of cities and sustainable urban living.
The issue of cities as complex systems has been explored by a considerable amount of literature, across different disciplines (for example, Simmel, 1971; Lynch, 1960; Jacobs, 1992; Abrams and Hall, 2004). Cities are not only defined by buildings and infrastructure, but also by the material and immaterial flows generated by the activities that take place in the urban environment, as well as the personal experience of its inhabitants
Environmental, social, and economic challenges call for actions of radical interventions in modern urban areas. In order to be truly sustainable these actions must be collaboratively developed in trans-disciplinary sessions. Here, people from various backgrounds and with different interests explore alternative solutions, find a common ground and plan concrete actions towards a desirable future (Holman et al., 2007).
One of the challenges of this approach is to find effective ways to visualize how individual solutions impact on the context in which they are implemented, and how they relate to each other. There is a need to develop “means for drawing things together” (Bruno Latour, 2008), a common language to describe complexity and allow hidden interdependencies to emerge. The field of information visualization is rich with examples of how diagrams can be used to describe a complex matter by focusing primarily on the relations between different sets of qualitative and quantitative data. Drawing on Deleuze philosophical interpretation, Scagnetti (2007) describes diagrams as “operating devices able to reveal weak links among the elements of the system, and to show the driving forces that can facilitate (or hinder) a design intervention.” In this context diagrams are processes rather than finished products: they are working tools for design and decision making.
This paper describes how this diagrammatic approach to city visualization is being adopted in different case studies, and as part of the Liveable Cities project.
Liveable Cities is an interdisciplinary research project that aims to develop a method of designing and engineering low-carbon, resource-secure UK cities that do not compromise on individual and collective wellbeing. Different areas of the project are investigated by research teams at Lancaster University, University of Southampton, UCL, and Birmingham University, with the help of expert panelists, partners and potential users of future services. Great impo
Impact Report of Future City Summit Annual Meet 2020 is prepared by Future City Summit and Good City Foundation as a annual documentation for the Annual Meet hosted on 16th - 17th in December 2020, sponsored by the InvestHK and Cyberport Hong Kong, co-hosted by the Dream Impact, Hong Kong Scholarship for Excellence Scheme Scholars Association(HKSESSA), Global Solutions Foundation and Impact Circles.
Urban sprawl in india and smart growth modelJigar Pandya
Policies responsible for Urban Sprawl in India. Smart Growth Models. TDR and other programs when combined with focused policy can work for intensive community development. Community empowerment through land equity.
This presentation was given during the Visual Conversations On Urban Futures - Designing Tamara Workshop, part of the "Musing Inside...Systems" event at the BA in Interior and Spatial Design at Chelsea College of Art (London).
It includes an introduction, the instructions for the activities, and a final presentation to reflect on the purpose of the workshop.
More information, photos, and a video of the workshop here: http://seremiru.com/designing-tamara/
These slides are for a brief introduction to the Sharing Economy in Korea and KOZAZA, a local home sharing service in Korea. I presented them at #ShareSummit2017Tokyo: https://sharing-economy.jp/en/summit/summit2017/.
도쿄에서 열린 Share Summit 2017 에서 공유경제와 코자자에 대해 소개했습니다.
Creating opportunity for smart city citizensKonrad+King
We hosted a smart city event. We asked attendees to sketch a big idea that fulfills citizens’ needs. The idea needed to include elements of a smarter city and use the most relevant data and emerging technologies.
Outlook : Future City Summit Annual Meet 2020 | 5th AnniversaryGood City Foundation
Outlook : Future City Summit Annual Meet 2020 | 5th Anniversary is the overview of the upcoming Future City Summit Annual Meet 2020 in Hong Kong (Virtual), sponsored by Cyberport Hong Kong (https://www.cyberport.hk/) and InvestHK (http://investhk.hk/) (investment promotion agency of Hong Kong SAR government), with the main theme of "Global Post-Pandemic Recovery Agenda".
Five ideas for cities "Let's get on with it!"David Singleton
With Australia’s current federal government wishing to be known as ‘the infrastructure government’, Chairman of the Infrastructure Sustainability Council of Australia - David Singleton – is urging decision makers to move forward with infrastructure investment but to tread wisely. He shares five ideas for cities and says "let's get on with it!" Read more here: http://ow.ly/w6vjb
The future of cities: creative solutions for a brighter urban life Individual mobility is as simple as taking a walk. But the more that humans have to live in shared spaces, the more mobility becomes about technology—powering transit, but also coordinating it. And nowhere is this linkage as vivid as in cities.
Tomorrow's cities will be shaped by human-centric technology solutions—more ""Iron Man"" and less ""Skynet."" Over the coming decades, we'll see the proliferation of autonomous, connected, electric, shared transportation systems that will increase, rather than decrease, the importance of superb mass-transit systems and multi-modal options for getting from point A to point B. We'll create public/private partnerships, with policymakers at the local level creating markets for new technologies, infrastructure development, and advancing new thinking like mileage-based user fees. At the same time, denser cities will blur the lines between where we live and work, our energy consumption and production, and how we get around.
Ultimately, this upheaval creates vast new opportunities for business model innovation and startup wealth creation. Join URBAN-X Managing Director Micah Kotch for his view from the frontlines of urban mobility."
To celebrate the launch of Charlottesville's Open Data site, I shared some experience and vision for how to make the city truly collaborative with the community.
Drawing Futures Together. Diagrams for the Design of Scenarios of Liveable Ci...serena pollastri
Presentation for RSD3 symposium - October 2014, AHO Oslo.
Proceedings will soon be available here: http://systemic-design.net/
Abstract:
This work introduces an ongoing research project that seeks to develop appropriate visual techniques for the design of future scenarios that are able to capture interdependencies within and across different systems. These design methods are being explored as part of a wider research on the future of cities and sustainable urban living.
The issue of cities as complex systems has been explored by a considerable amount of literature, across different disciplines (for example, Simmel, 1971; Lynch, 1960; Jacobs, 1992; Abrams and Hall, 2004). Cities are not only defined by buildings and infrastructure, but also by the material and immaterial flows generated by the activities that take place in the urban environment, as well as the personal experience of its inhabitants
Environmental, social, and economic challenges call for actions of radical interventions in modern urban areas. In order to be truly sustainable these actions must be collaboratively developed in trans-disciplinary sessions. Here, people from various backgrounds and with different interests explore alternative solutions, find a common ground and plan concrete actions towards a desirable future (Holman et al., 2007).
One of the challenges of this approach is to find effective ways to visualize how individual solutions impact on the context in which they are implemented, and how they relate to each other. There is a need to develop “means for drawing things together” (Bruno Latour, 2008), a common language to describe complexity and allow hidden interdependencies to emerge. The field of information visualization is rich with examples of how diagrams can be used to describe a complex matter by focusing primarily on the relations between different sets of qualitative and quantitative data. Drawing on Deleuze philosophical interpretation, Scagnetti (2007) describes diagrams as “operating devices able to reveal weak links among the elements of the system, and to show the driving forces that can facilitate (or hinder) a design intervention.” In this context diagrams are processes rather than finished products: they are working tools for design and decision making.
This paper describes how this diagrammatic approach to city visualization is being adopted in different case studies, and as part of the Liveable Cities project.
Liveable Cities is an interdisciplinary research project that aims to develop a method of designing and engineering low-carbon, resource-secure UK cities that do not compromise on individual and collective wellbeing. Different areas of the project are investigated by research teams at Lancaster University, University of Southampton, UCL, and Birmingham University, with the help of expert panelists, partners and potential users of future services. Great impo
Impact Report of Future City Summit Annual Meet 2020 is prepared by Future City Summit and Good City Foundation as a annual documentation for the Annual Meet hosted on 16th - 17th in December 2020, sponsored by the InvestHK and Cyberport Hong Kong, co-hosted by the Dream Impact, Hong Kong Scholarship for Excellence Scheme Scholars Association(HKSESSA), Global Solutions Foundation and Impact Circles.
Urban sprawl in india and smart growth modelJigar Pandya
Policies responsible for Urban Sprawl in India. Smart Growth Models. TDR and other programs when combined with focused policy can work for intensive community development. Community empowerment through land equity.
This presentation was given during the Visual Conversations On Urban Futures - Designing Tamara Workshop, part of the "Musing Inside...Systems" event at the BA in Interior and Spatial Design at Chelsea College of Art (London).
It includes an introduction, the instructions for the activities, and a final presentation to reflect on the purpose of the workshop.
More information, photos, and a video of the workshop here: http://seremiru.com/designing-tamara/
These slides are for a brief introduction to the Sharing Economy in Korea and KOZAZA, a local home sharing service in Korea. I presented them at #ShareSummit2017Tokyo: https://sharing-economy.jp/en/summit/summit2017/.
도쿄에서 열린 Share Summit 2017 에서 공유경제와 코자자에 대해 소개했습니다.
Creating opportunity for smart city citizensKonrad+King
We hosted a smart city event. We asked attendees to sketch a big idea that fulfills citizens’ needs. The idea needed to include elements of a smarter city and use the most relevant data and emerging technologies.
Outlook : Future City Summit Annual Meet 2020 | 5th AnniversaryGood City Foundation
Outlook : Future City Summit Annual Meet 2020 | 5th Anniversary is the overview of the upcoming Future City Summit Annual Meet 2020 in Hong Kong (Virtual), sponsored by Cyberport Hong Kong (https://www.cyberport.hk/) and InvestHK (http://investhk.hk/) (investment promotion agency of Hong Kong SAR government), with the main theme of "Global Post-Pandemic Recovery Agenda".
Five ideas for cities "Let's get on with it!"David Singleton
With Australia’s current federal government wishing to be known as ‘the infrastructure government’, Chairman of the Infrastructure Sustainability Council of Australia - David Singleton – is urging decision makers to move forward with infrastructure investment but to tread wisely. He shares five ideas for cities and says "let's get on with it!" Read more here: http://ow.ly/w6vjb
The future of cities: creative solutions for a brighter urban life Individual mobility is as simple as taking a walk. But the more that humans have to live in shared spaces, the more mobility becomes about technology—powering transit, but also coordinating it. And nowhere is this linkage as vivid as in cities.
Tomorrow's cities will be shaped by human-centric technology solutions—more ""Iron Man"" and less ""Skynet."" Over the coming decades, we'll see the proliferation of autonomous, connected, electric, shared transportation systems that will increase, rather than decrease, the importance of superb mass-transit systems and multi-modal options for getting from point A to point B. We'll create public/private partnerships, with policymakers at the local level creating markets for new technologies, infrastructure development, and advancing new thinking like mileage-based user fees. At the same time, denser cities will blur the lines between where we live and work, our energy consumption and production, and how we get around.
Ultimately, this upheaval creates vast new opportunities for business model innovation and startup wealth creation. Join URBAN-X Managing Director Micah Kotch for his view from the frontlines of urban mobility."
The 2014 edition of the Networked Society City Index examines and ranks 40 cities from around the world, looking at their performance, challenges and opportunities in terms of ICT, sustainability and development. The extensive research gives us a glimpse into the future of the city.
The report also continues to explore the connection between ICT maturity and triple bottom line development in cities around the world.
http://pwc.to/13MJEh4
Cette étude compare la situation de 27 villes, toutes des capitales de la finance, du commerce et de la culture, selon dix catégories regroupant des critères aussi bien économiques que sociaux.
Evaluation criteria for Urbanism based on Sustainability and Spatial JusticeRoberto Rocco
What if we could evaluate projects, plans and designs using an enhanced concept of sustainability? “For sustainability to occur, it must occur simultaneously in each of its three dimensions” (economic, social and environmental) Larsen, 2012. These three crucial and necessary dimensions of sustainability are, each of them, connected to big traditions of study and analysis that must be integrated. My claim here is that this enhanced concept of sustainability help us derive solid criteria to evaluate plans, project and designs in Urbanism through the idea of Spatial Justice, and to connect this evaluation to larger academic traditions.
Smart Cities - Why they're not working for us yet.Rick Robinson
My presentation to the April 2016 Eurocities Knowledge Sharing Forum in Rennes. My focus was on describing Smart Cities as an economic and political challenge; and exploring the policy mechanisms that could be used to incentivise private sector investments in business and technology to support local social, economic and environmental outcomes. Further description and supporting evidence for these ideas can be found at https://theurbantechnologist.com/2016/02/01/why-smart-cities-still-arent-working-for-us-after-20-years-and-how-we-can-fix-them/
Sarah Drummond, director of Snook discusses Social Innovation and the issues and opportunities for the tourism sector at the Travel and Tourism Research Association conference in Innsbruck, Austria
Lab Profile : Urban Resilience Lab is a publication of strategy and impact business proposal, produced by the team of Good City Foundation and Future City Summit, submitted to the Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship(SIE) Fund steered by Commission on Poverty and a group of social leaders in the public and private sectors in Hong Kong.
The Urban Resilience Lab serves as a social business design model for ecosystem to develop programs that prepare future workforce in Hong Kong and their understanding of Asia and practical skills of public private partnership.
•Smart city and energy efficiency related citizen engagement
•Identified levels of citizen engagement
•Practical examples, tips and tools for each level
•Existing frameworks for citizen engagement
•Future perspectives
Written as part of an assignment for EU Smart Cities project REMOURBAN - www.remourban.eu
The fifth edition of the report ranks Stockholm first followed by London, Paris, Singapore and Copenhagen.
The 2014 edition of the Networked Society City Index examines and ranks 40 cities from around the world, looking at their performance, challenges and opportunities in terms of ICT, sustainability and development. The extensive research gives us a glimpse into the future of the city.
The report also continues to explore the connection between ICT maturity and triple bottom line development in cities around the world.
One of the key findings from the report is the fact that cities with a low ICT maturity tend to be improving their ICT maturity faster than high performing cities, indicating a catch-up effect. Many cities also have the opportunity to leapfrog by avoiding expensive and increasingly obsolete physical infrastructure and instead move straight ahead to advanced mobile technology.
Stockholm’s top ranking is thanks to its well-developed ICT infrastructure, extremely well-developed open data and e-services and high-quality access to both fixed and mobile broadband, thanks to extensive infrastructure rollouts.
Impact Report: Future City Summit Annual Meet 2016 is produced by Future City Summit in The University of Hong Kong. FCS2016 was the curation founding year of the organisation and the Summit through the support of the Global Partnership Seed Fund by the Vice President Office of The University of Hong Kong.
The FCS2016 gathered 80 delegates from emerging Southeast Asia and South Asia to explore the urban development challenges. Design Jam(Hackathon) was conducted for generating actionable items with proposals for the follow-up projects.
Impact Report: Future City Summit Annual Meet 2016
BetterCities Sep 2016
1. Issue 69 September 2016
BETTER CITIESYour monthly update from the Centre for Liveable Cities
How should cities take advantage of new opportunities
to improve liveability? Some cities, such as Auckland,
New Zealand mobilise their young population through
hackathons to create apps that improve liveability. In
Seoul, South Korea, big data is used to draw out bus
routes for late-night commuters.
Beyond new technological opportunities, new
ways to bridge traditional social fault-lines is also
improving liveability. In Penang, Malaysia, gender and
participatory budgeting is introduced to align budgeting
decisions with the ideals of gender equality and social
justice.
For Medellin, Colombia, the outgoing mayor stays on
as advisor. This creates stability for the achievement
of long-term visions, which so often conflates with
liveable solutions.
Read more forward-thinking ideas and initiatives
from 92 mayors and city leaders in the World Cities
Summit Mayors Forum Report.
Taipei City has led many innovations in city governance in
recent years. Yao Chingyu, Advisory Officer of the Taipei
City Government, shares her views and experience on
innovation, governance and social inclusion.
The soft infrastructure is crucial to the development of
innovative cities. Duncan Pescod, CEO, Kowloon West
Cultural District, Hong Kong, shares his views on the role
of culture, creativity and its interaction with the built
environment.
connect with clc:
How to Create a Liveable City
“Wemayorscannotwaittillthelawsarewritten,
wehavetohelptowritethelawourselves.”
— Ahmed Aboutaleb, Mayor of Rotterdam, the Netherlands
“Donotbea‘metoo’city.”
— Yao Chingyu
“Thereisahearttothecommunity,andoneof
thebestwaystoexpressthatisthroughculture.”
— Duncan Pescod
2. Connect with CLC:
“Rankingsthatdoshape
discussionsareincidentally
theonesthatadoptnarrower
definitionsofliveability.”
— Alisha Gill
Measuring the liveability of cities
and countries can be difficult. In
the assessment process, liveability
indices often oversimplify, exclude
or give extra weight to selected
indicators, resulting in city rankings
that are skewed. Such indices, if
prominent or popular, can shape
public perceptions of a city’s
liveability. How then should we
understand city rankings? In this
thinkpiece, CLC researcher Alisha
Gill explores the limitations of city
rankings and why they should be
read with a pinch of salt.
Ranking cities
with a pinch of salt
How can cities become friendlier to pedestrians and
cyclists? One approach is to identify ‘quick-win’ pilot
projects. For instance, the successful pedestrianisation
of Deoksugung-gil in Seoul and Club Street in Singapore,
quickly demonstrates the benefits of pedestrian-friendly
environments in high-density city centres.
Besides quick solutions walking and cycling options need
to be integrated with public transport system to make it
convenient and comfortable for people to get from point
to point without cars. In Singapore, intra-town footpaths
and cycling networks have been created to connect Mass
Rapid Transit stations and bus interchanges with residential
areas, making walking and cycling safe and convenient for commuters.
Increasing the presence of pedestrians and cyclists often means reclaiming road
space from cars. Since the early 2000s, Seoul has been actively narrowing roads
to expand pedestrian sidewalks and introduce dedicated bus lanes. In Yonsei-ro,
the creation of a transit mall has improved public transit service and walkability
in the area. It has also transformed the formerly congested street into a bustling
public space for activities.
These strategies for urban success in walkability and bikeability from Seoul and
Singapore areextracted from collaborative research by the Centre for Liveable
Cities and Seoul Institute. Read the full report in Walkable and Bikeable Cities:
Lessons from Seoul and Singapore.
Bringing Back Pedestrians and Cyclists:
Success Stories from Asia
“We believe when citizens can envision the
future,theyareabletotakeownershipofit.”
Singapore held The Future of Us exhibition
from December 2015 to March 2016 to present
visions of the city’s future. In this essay, the
exhibition’s Creative Director Gene Tan and
Deputy Director Wan Wee Pin illustrate how
their innovative presentation of urban plans
encouraged citizen ownership of the future.
Coming Together to Dream
Urban Solutions
Issue #9: Innovation
“The innovative component of the partnership was that
30% of the private partner’s profits were conditioned on
its meeting a number of outcome-based key performance
indicatorssuchasattracting4,200jobs…”
Faced with high unemployment, an ageing workforce
and economic doldrums brought about by the decline of
its fishing industry, the North East Lincolnshire Council in
the UK entered into a long-term partnership with a private
company to regenerate the borough and improve the
lives of its residents.
A Transformative Relationship