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- 1. Cover with focus picture 1 Cover with focus picture 2 Cover with focus picture 3 Data, telepathy 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 rick.robinson@amey.co.uk http://theurbantechnologist.com @dr_rick
- 4. Pressure, resilience and inequality
- 6. Brutal urbanism Photo of Masshouse Circus, Birmingham, before its redevelopment, by Birmingham City Council http://www.birmingham.gov.uk/cs/Satellite?c=Page&childpagename=Planning- Management%2FPageLayout&cid=1223092740947&pagename=BCC%2FCommon%2FWrapper%2FWrapper Photo Buford Highway, Atlanta by PBS http://www.pbs.org/wnet/need-to-know/the-daily-need/dangerous-by-design/9619/
- 8. 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?
- 10. 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”
- 11. Photo of Jane Jacobs by Michèl Champagne http://www.mediamatic.net/104796/en/jane-jacobs-ideas-that-matter Photo of Christopher Alexander by Eugene Kim http://www.flickr.com/photos/eekim/5686194142/ 1. Broadband connectivity 2. Cloud computing 3. Mobile and smartphones 4. Social media 5. The touchscreen 6. Open source software 7. Intelligent hardware 8. Open APIs 9. Open data 10. Open standards 11. Mundane interfaces 12. Identity stores 13. Maps and geolocation 14. Social enterprise 15. Alternative currencies 16. The “sharing economy” 17. Information partnerships 18. Regeneration & incubation 19. Sustainable business 20. Intelligent infrastructure 21. Local energy 22. 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/
- 12. Smart Hack Birmingham 2012 Coders taking part in “Smart Hack” at Birmingham Science Park Aston in 2012 by Sebastian Lenton: https://twitter.com/sebastianlenton
- 13. Birmingham Smart City Alliance http://birminghamsmartcityalliance.wordpress.com/
- 16. 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/ Massive/small 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 http://www.fastcompany.com/1842367/tropical-tale-tourists-networks-and-new-kind-leadership
- 17. Cover with focus picture 1 Cover with focus picture 2 Cover with focus picture 3 Thankyou Dr Rick Robinson FBCS CITP FRSA AoU, IT Director, Smart Data and Technology rick.robinson@amey.co.uk http://theurbantechnologist.com @dr_rick
Editor's Notes
- A couple of years ago, whilst walking through London to give a talk similar to this one, I was reminded of just how much the world has changed in my lifetime. I found myself walking along Wardour St. in Soho, just off Oxford St., and past a small alley called St. Anne’s Court, which brought back enormous memories for me. In the 1980s I spent all the money I earned washing pots in a local restaurant in Winchester catching the train to London every weekend to visit a small shop in the basement of the building you see in the photo on the right. Now I wonder if anyone in this room knows the significance of this particular “hyper-local” place in London to the music scene in Britain in the 1980s?
- It was the only place in the country you could buy really cutting-edge European thrash metal. The process by which bands like Hellhammer, Voivod and Celtic Frost – who at the time were three 17 year olds practicing in an old military bunker outside Zurich – managed to connect to the very few people like me around the world who were willing to pay money for their music sounds like ancient history now. It was a world of hand-printed “fanzines”, and demo tapes painstakingly copied one at a time. Our world has been utterly transformed in the relatively short time between now and then by the phenomenal ease with which we can exchange information.
- (“Lives on the Line” by James Cheshire at UCL’s Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis, showing the variation in life expectancy and correlation to child poverty in London. From Cheshire, J. 2012. Lives on the Line: Mapping Life Expectancy Along the London Tube Network. Environment and Planning A. 44 (7). Doi: 10.1068/a45341) http://www.theguardian.com/society/2012/may/15/graph-doom-social-care-services-barnet
- What do you get when you mix a tourist and a satnav? This, as it happens. Thinking it was the entrance to and underground car park (with stairs?!) this hapless motorist launched themselves into the French subway. I suppose that’s one interpretation of going off the beaten track in Paris. http://www.insuranceclaims.co.uk/news/freaky-car-crashes/ Packages from Amazon delivered to Google’s San Francisco office. Photo bymoppet65535 https://www.flickr.com/photos/9880707@N02/ http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-22421185 Surveillance cameras in Sparkbrook, Birmingham. It was decommissioned after complaints from residents and the local media when it was discovered the cameras had been installed by the intelligence services to look for evidence of terrorist activity. The network included 40 classified as covert and believed to be hidden in trees and walls. http://www.theguardian.com/uk/2010/jun/17/birmingham-stops-muslim-surveillance-scheme12
- As we turn our thinking from examples to how to create new Smarter initiatives we can learn from the unlikely godparents of Smarter thinking. In the 1970s Christopher Alexander created “design patterns” as a tool to share experience of town design between architects, town planners and urban designers. In the 1980s, the concept of “design patterns” was adopted wholesale by the software industry, and Ward Cunningham invented the “wiki” as a collaborative platform for software designers to develop and share patterns. The majority of the software developed for desktop computers, laptops and distributed servers today is now explicitly or implicity based on these design patterns. http://theurbantechnologist.com/2013/02/15/do-we-need-a-pattern-language-for-smarter-cities/ Jane Jacobs said that we should understand the performance of cities and communities through the detail of individual behaviour, and her thinking is still regarded as foundational by many professionals in the field of cities and urbanism today. Social media / smart cities gives us the ability to engage big systems in the detail of that behaviour in technology, just as urbanists have done in the built environment. And just as privacy will be the foundation upon which an information economy is built, Jacobs showed that privacy was the foundation of a safe and thriving city. What are the patterns for Smarter Cities? Some of the business model patterns we have seen include: Social Enterprise, Information Sharing Partnership, Online Marketplace, Cross-City Collaboration, Sustainable Business, Disruptive Business Platforms, Collective Infrastructure and Regeneration and Incubation: http://theurbantechnologist.com/design-patterns/
- This is what happens when you give city data to people with the skills and passion to do something about it. These people spent a weekend together in 2012 asking themselves: in what way should Birmingham be better? And what can we do about it? They wrote an app that connected spare food prepared in professional kitchens each day with soup kitchens in need of more food. So what came of this?
- The Smart City Alliance came together to promote “massive / small” innovation by creating a network of networks so that great ideas from one place can find great support from another. We convened a set of “unusual suspects” to explore how we could take the ideas generated in the hackathon forward, and create a systematic change to food culture in Birmingham.
- … and Two years later, it led to the Harborne Food School, which opened this month, offering training courses in cookery, sustainable food production and running small food businesses. And it intends in the near future to operate a local food distribution service based on the ideas from the Hackathon.