Medellin, Colombia underwent a transformation from the most violent city in the world in the 1990s to becoming safer and more prosperous. Through "integral urban plans" and highly participatory community projects, Medellin reduced homicide by 95% and extreme poverty by 66%. These projects included infrastructure like metro lines and cable cars to connect isolated hillside communities to services, as well as new libraries and schools. Santiago, Chile faced air pollution, traffic, and urban sprawl issues in the 1990s and 2000s. Initiatives like legislative pollution restrictions, vehicle limitations, and metro expansions helped address these problems. Recent "smart cities" projects prioritize energy savings and encourage citizen involvement in urban innovation. R

1. Smart Cities,
Latin America
Medellin
Santiago
Rio De Janeiro

2. What makes a city smart?

3. MEDELLÍN:
A CITY THAT
WENT TO
REHAB

4. MEDELLIN WAS
THE MOST VIOLENT CITY IN THE
WORLD
SINCE THE 90’S:
HOMICIDE RATE HAS DECREASED
BY 95%
EXTREME POVERTY BY 66%

5. THE FURTHER UP THE MOUNTAINS YOU
GO
•The population gets poorer
•The are farther away from services of all kind
•The crime rates get bigger
•The organized crime infiltration is deeper

6. When does the spark of innovation start to
happen?
•Metro
•Cable Car
•Libraries
•Schools
•Integral urban projects

7. How did the integral urban plans - the PUIs - work
in practice?
•Multi-neighborhood intervention plans
•A form of highly participatory and contextualized slum
upgrading
•Focus on critical areas
•Major impact on overall indicators
•Coordinated interventions – collaboration with communities

8. Santiago
Capital and biggest city of Chile

9. Background
•Air pollution problems
•Traffic congestion
•Urban Sprawl

10. 90’s/00’s initiatives
•Legislative measures to reduce industrial pollution
•Vehicle restrictions on cars
•Transadiago: Expansion of Metro - Buses
underwent a major reform

11. 2010 onwards: Becoming smarter
•Metro is has the highest per capita use in the region.
•Smart Cities Project sets energy saving as a priority.
•Start-Up Chile welcomes inhabitants‘ involvement.
Santiago is according to MERCER ranking (2016), amongst the highest
ranking cities in South America, for quality of living. Αlso, it was ranked
amongst the top 20 in the world for its entrepreneurial ecosystem. But sure
has more to do in the future, in order to offer its inhabitants a better quality
of life

12. Rio De Janeiro
‘’A city on the Path’’

13. Rio de Janeiro: ‘’A city on the path’’
•Rio is building up towards the 2014 World Cup and the 2016 Summer
Olympics
•Improved transport means
•Video streams in from subway stations and major intersections in order to
predict and alleviate traffic jams
•A sophisticated weather program predicts rainfall across the city (Using
sensors in the hillsides combined with meteorological data and new
communications tools, the integrated center is equipped to predict mudslides
and warn communities in advance)

14. Eduardo Paes, left, mayor of Rio de Janeiro, at the scene of a
building collapse in January. Rio's new operations center
coordinated the emergency response, as agencies alerted
hospitals, dispatched ambulances and closed streets.

15. Rio de Janeiro: ‘’A city on the path’’
•A map glows with the locations of car accidents, power failures and other
problems
•Special police units have moved into about 20 slums, called favelas, in an
effort to assert government control and combat crime
•Another ongoing project involves hiring local teenagers to take digital images
of problem areas in the favelas in an effort to create a digital map of hot spots
and enabling city staff to begin tackling challenges such as removing
accumulated trash which attracted mosquitoes and contributed to higher
incidences of dengue fever.

16. Any Questions & Comments ?
Christina Charalampidou
Marieta Christopoulou
Efi Tzoumani
Cultural Marketing Course: Smart
Cities Project /Ass. Prof. Betty
Tsakarestou