This document summarizes the key findings and recommendations from a planning process for Lee County, Florida. The planning process assessed the feasibility of developing an "Innovation Diamond" concept to diversify the local economy through research and sustainable industries. Key recommendations included:
- Physically reshaping the city to attract innovators by fostering dense, walkable, mixed-use development near transit and creating activity centers.
- Adopting new development formats like walkable workplace districts, innovation clusters near universities, and revitalizing industrial areas to attract knowledge workers and small/medium firms.
- Focusing economic development efforts on target industries like aerospace, clean technology, life sciences and healthcare through investment, business encouragement,
A holistic presentation on the future of mobility slide deck and underlying research for management book of the year 2020 in The Netherlands " De wereld is rond " by Jo Caudron. Happy to have contributed to it. Aitor Somers
Big data, open data and telepathy: building better places to live, work and ...Rick Robinson
A recent presentation on Amey's role in creating smarter, more sustainable, socially mobile cities and communities in partnership with our customers in local government, central government, transport and utilities taking into account Trends and technologies such as platform capitalism, automated/autonomous systems and artificial intelligence.
I gave this presentation at the launch of the British Standards Institutes Smart Cities programme - http://www.bsigroup.com/en-GB/smart-cities/ . Open Standards will be enormously important in expressing visions for Smart Cities; winning investment to create them; and successfully implementing their social, governance, engineering, environmental and technology infrastructures. This presentation gives some examples of the issues that it's crucial for Smart Cities standards to address, based on my experience delivering large-scale technology solutions within business change programmes; and on my more recent experience delivering technology infrastructures that help to improve cities. The presentation has full speaker notes in the downloadable Powerpoint file.
A holistic presentation on the future of mobility slide deck and underlying research for management book of the year 2020 in The Netherlands " De wereld is rond " by Jo Caudron. Happy to have contributed to it. Aitor Somers
Big data, open data and telepathy: building better places to live, work and ...Rick Robinson
A recent presentation on Amey's role in creating smarter, more sustainable, socially mobile cities and communities in partnership with our customers in local government, central government, transport and utilities taking into account Trends and technologies such as platform capitalism, automated/autonomous systems and artificial intelligence.
I gave this presentation at the launch of the British Standards Institutes Smart Cities programme - http://www.bsigroup.com/en-GB/smart-cities/ . Open Standards will be enormously important in expressing visions for Smart Cities; winning investment to create them; and successfully implementing their social, governance, engineering, environmental and technology infrastructures. This presentation gives some examples of the issues that it's crucial for Smart Cities standards to address, based on my experience delivering large-scale technology solutions within business change programmes; and on my more recent experience delivering technology infrastructures that help to improve cities. The presentation has full speaker notes in the downloadable Powerpoint file.
Peter Ramsden gave an overview on the process and scope of social innovation. He pointed out the essential role of the public sector and emphasised the need to involve all the stakeholders – above all the target group – and to focus on results. Part of his presentation also focused on the chances of innovative financing.
LED in the urban context for Mayors Institute - EnglishNachman Shelef
Presented to the Israeli Mayors Institute on City Renewal Sep 2011
Abstract: After more than 50 years of massive investment in Local Economic Development (LED) worldwide, what has been learned regarding what works and what does not? If in the past economic development was focused on employment generation, today the accepted definitions of LED are much more intricate – they define the purpose of LED as achieving “quality of life for all” and the process as a collective effort of “public, business and non-governmental sector partners“. This sober view has developed over decades of huge but mostly fruitless investments in LED worldwide, in three waves, that where kicked off by the success of the Marshal Plan.
Have the lessons of the past been learned or do we keep investing in approaches that have failed in the past? Unfortunately not, we still see; Top down efforts by central government to lead LED programs, instead of a participatory approach, including all stakeholders and sectors, led by local government. A focus on outside big business transplant, instead of support of innovation, entrepreneurship and policies focused on the success of local businesses. Attempts to jumpstart and support LED over entire regions, instead of focusing on cities as the true engines of economic growth.
Why have the leading LED practitioners worldwide focused on cities and urban economic development over the last decade? Urbanization matters - economic growth and urbanization are bi-directionally causally connected - “no country in the industrial age has ever achieved significant economic growth without urbanization.”. 1.2 billion people living in the 40 mega-metro regions worldwide produce around 70% of world output and 85% of all innovations. 5 billion people living in 191 countries produce the rest. A resident of a mega-metro is 8 times as productive in goods, and 24 times as productive in innovations. Cities are engines of economic growth, they manufacture wealth. Why is this so?
Cities have natural economic advantages that include internal scale economies and external agglomeration economies. But poor city design can undermine these advantages and create barriers to economic development, whereas good city design can enhance these advantages. How can we leverage the natural economic advantages of cities with good city design? Compact mixed-use development that focuses on pedestrian and public transport access is key.
How does the urban economy develop? How can we jumpstart economic development, when it is missing, in Israeli cities? Viewing economic development in the context of a network of interrelated towns and cities clarifies that different types of towns and cities, within the network, require different approaches to LED. Great cities that generate more wealth than they consume require one approach for continued development. Towns and cities within the region of a great city require a second approach. Towns that are outside the region of a
Incorporating to digital lifestyles to circular economy.
A framework by Demos Helsinki.
Roope Mokka's presentation at the Circular Economy 29th of October 2015 European Energy Agency
Backcasting Transformation towards smart and sustainable citiesDemos Helsinki
A presentation held in Nordic Innovation House Palo Alto by Johannes Koponen and Aleksi Neuvonen in the seminar Backcasting Transformation: Smart + Sustainable Cities in 2040.
Responsive Web Design: the secret sauce - JavaScript Open Day Montreal - 2015...Frédéric Harper
There is no mobile or desktop Web: we view the same Web, but in different ways. So what is the secret sauce to give the best experience to our users? Drown your fixed-width design, destroy your device-specific approaches and ride the web's unicorn while an orchestra is playing we are the champion in the background: you found the holy grail! It's responsive web design. It's not new. It's not magical. Still, we need it as the bytes going thru the wires doesn't always give us the best experience out there. So stop watching cats videos, and learn more about how you can use Responsive Web Design's approach to your current site, today.
Peter Ramsden gave an overview on the process and scope of social innovation. He pointed out the essential role of the public sector and emphasised the need to involve all the stakeholders – above all the target group – and to focus on results. Part of his presentation also focused on the chances of innovative financing.
LED in the urban context for Mayors Institute - EnglishNachman Shelef
Presented to the Israeli Mayors Institute on City Renewal Sep 2011
Abstract: After more than 50 years of massive investment in Local Economic Development (LED) worldwide, what has been learned regarding what works and what does not? If in the past economic development was focused on employment generation, today the accepted definitions of LED are much more intricate – they define the purpose of LED as achieving “quality of life for all” and the process as a collective effort of “public, business and non-governmental sector partners“. This sober view has developed over decades of huge but mostly fruitless investments in LED worldwide, in three waves, that where kicked off by the success of the Marshal Plan.
Have the lessons of the past been learned or do we keep investing in approaches that have failed in the past? Unfortunately not, we still see; Top down efforts by central government to lead LED programs, instead of a participatory approach, including all stakeholders and sectors, led by local government. A focus on outside big business transplant, instead of support of innovation, entrepreneurship and policies focused on the success of local businesses. Attempts to jumpstart and support LED over entire regions, instead of focusing on cities as the true engines of economic growth.
Why have the leading LED practitioners worldwide focused on cities and urban economic development over the last decade? Urbanization matters - economic growth and urbanization are bi-directionally causally connected - “no country in the industrial age has ever achieved significant economic growth without urbanization.”. 1.2 billion people living in the 40 mega-metro regions worldwide produce around 70% of world output and 85% of all innovations. 5 billion people living in 191 countries produce the rest. A resident of a mega-metro is 8 times as productive in goods, and 24 times as productive in innovations. Cities are engines of economic growth, they manufacture wealth. Why is this so?
Cities have natural economic advantages that include internal scale economies and external agglomeration economies. But poor city design can undermine these advantages and create barriers to economic development, whereas good city design can enhance these advantages. How can we leverage the natural economic advantages of cities with good city design? Compact mixed-use development that focuses on pedestrian and public transport access is key.
How does the urban economy develop? How can we jumpstart economic development, when it is missing, in Israeli cities? Viewing economic development in the context of a network of interrelated towns and cities clarifies that different types of towns and cities, within the network, require different approaches to LED. Great cities that generate more wealth than they consume require one approach for continued development. Towns and cities within the region of a great city require a second approach. Towns that are outside the region of a
Incorporating to digital lifestyles to circular economy.
A framework by Demos Helsinki.
Roope Mokka's presentation at the Circular Economy 29th of October 2015 European Energy Agency
Backcasting Transformation towards smart and sustainable citiesDemos Helsinki
A presentation held in Nordic Innovation House Palo Alto by Johannes Koponen and Aleksi Neuvonen in the seminar Backcasting Transformation: Smart + Sustainable Cities in 2040.
Responsive Web Design: the secret sauce - JavaScript Open Day Montreal - 2015...Frédéric Harper
There is no mobile or desktop Web: we view the same Web, but in different ways. So what is the secret sauce to give the best experience to our users? Drown your fixed-width design, destroy your device-specific approaches and ride the web's unicorn while an orchestra is playing we are the champion in the background: you found the holy grail! It's responsive web design. It's not new. It's not magical. Still, we need it as the bytes going thru the wires doesn't always give us the best experience out there. So stop watching cats videos, and learn more about how you can use Responsive Web Design's approach to your current site, today.
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/
REDI is a public-private partnership engaging stakeholders in a collaborative effort to create jobs. It focuses on Silicon Valley’s most promising economic opportunities. REDI is led by the San Jose Silicon Valley Chamber of Commerce in cooperation with the City of San Jose, Santa Clara County and supported by the regional business community.
Computer Society of India Mumbai chapter organised its Annual Technology Conference in association with Department of Physics, University of Mumbai, title “IT Challenges for Smart India” at Green Technology Auditorium, University of Mumbai, Kalina Campus on Jan 21, 22nd 2016. Lux Rao Country Leader Future Cities & CTO Technology Services Hewlett Packard Enterprise
Looking back and looking forward are they the same?
In this session we'll take a quick skim over the last 40 years of public services. You'll return to now for a view of the current landscape and then head off to see what's changed 40 years from now.
ECO4CLIM we are a "glocal" community of climate practice, materialized into a global network of interconnected climate innovation labs, managed by climate organizers; where ecopreneurs meet climate activists and other key stakeholders, to co-create sustainable business solutions to climate-related challenges, for cities and communities, as well as companies and organizations.
If you want to run your own climate innovation lab within this global network, read this presentation carefully and contact us at http://ecopreneurs4climate.org/labs/
Sharecon is the asscociation for all sharing economy startups in Switzerland.
Here we want to share our definition of sharing, show you what is happening in the sharing economy in Switzerland and what Sharecon is doing to shape and build the ecosystem.
Smart Cities: why they're not working for us yetRick Robinson
This is my January 2016 presentation to the United Nations Commission on Science and Technology for Development as part of their preparation of a report on Smart Cities. The idea of a “Smart City” (or town, or region, or community) is 20 years old; but it has so far achieved comparatively little. The vast majority of Smart City initiatives to date are pilot projects funded by research and innovation grants: there are very, very few sustainable, repeatable solutions yet. This is partly because Smart Cities is usually discussed as a technology trend not an economic and political imperative; and so it has not won the support of the highest level of political leadership, and the widest level of community and citizen engagement. In a few cases where that level of leadership and engagement does exist, however, some cities have shown that existing policy tools and spending streams - such as procurement practises, planning frameworks and property investment - can be been used to create sustainable projects and programmes that can deliver real change.
Business Innovation, CSR and Competitive Advantage: Strategic pathways to valueWayne Dunn
Presentation to Saudi Arabian business leaders at the Maple Leaf Club, Canadian Embassy, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
November 29, 2015
To keep updated on postings and events go to www.csrtraininginstitute.com and sign up for the newsletter. If interested the CSR Knowledge Centre http://bit.ly/CSRknowledge contains a series of short, pragmatic articles on CSR Strategy, Management and related areas.
Opportunities and Challenges of Crowdsourcing for Smart RegionsCrowdsourcing Week
By Birgitta Bergvall-Kåreborn & Anna Ståhlbröst, Luleå University of Technology, LTU. Presented at CSW Summit Arctic Circle 2015. Learn more and join us at our next event: www.crowdsourcingweek.com
The final presentation of the AIA national design team from its community process in Savannah, Georgia. The team focused on the Canal District and neighborhoods of West Savannah by working in a community driven process led by the Ivory Bay Development Corporation, neighborhood organizations, and elected leaders.
Presentation to the Regional/Urban Design Committee Symposium, "Mind the Gap: The Future of Urban Design Education," at the American Institute of Architects, Jan 2019.
"Strengthening the City's Civic Spine: The Future of Court Avenue," is the final presentation of the American Institute of Architects Sustainable Design Assessment Team to the community of Jeffersonville, Indiana. A national team of volunteer professionals worked with the community through a 3-day public process to produce a community-driven strategy for the area.
Keynote address given to University of South Florida on the occasion of World Health Day, addressing global urbanization and its impact on global health as well as participatory urban design and its contribution to healthy cities.
Vinalhaven, Maine hosted a Design & Resilience Team (DART) in October 2017 to produce a strategy on adaptation to sea-level rise, downtown revitalization, and livability.
Panel organized for the RECAST conference in Santa Fe, marking the 20th anniversary of the public process that created the Santa Fe Railyard Redevelopment. Panelists included: Joel Mills, Cheryl Morgan, Erin Simmons, and Thea Crum. The panel explored issues facing cities today and multiple democratic methodologies (participatory budgeting, democratic urbanism) for city building.
The American Institute of Architects' Sustainable Design Assessment Team (SDAT) presentation to the Helper, Utah community following a 3 day public process to build revitalization strategies.
The American Institute of Architects and Urban Sustainability Directors Network partnered with the community of Dubuque, Iowa to produce a strategy on climate and resilience in the context of equity and health.
Presentation to the American Planning Association's National Planning Conference, New York City, May 2017. Presenters Wayne Feiden, Joel Mills, Eva Hull.
The final presentation of the Reimagine Dublin One process. From March 9-13, 2017 an American and Irish team of professionals worked with the Dublin One community to develop a series of regeneration strategies for the neighborhood.
Final presentation of the American Institute of Architects' Sustainable Design Assessment Team (SDAT) to the community of Oakland, Maryland on strategies for downtown revitalization. November 2016.
Workshop presentation to the International Association for Public Participation (IAP2) annual conference in Montreal framing a discussion about how to spread good P2 practice.
Elevating Tactical DDD Patterns Through Object CalisthenicsDorra BARTAGUIZ
After immersing yourself in the blue book and its red counterpart, attending DDD-focused conferences, and applying tactical patterns, you're left with a crucial question: How do I ensure my design is effective? Tactical patterns within Domain-Driven Design (DDD) serve as guiding principles for creating clear and manageable domain models. However, achieving success with these patterns requires additional guidance. Interestingly, we've observed that a set of constraints initially designed for training purposes remarkably aligns with effective pattern implementation, offering a more ‘mechanical’ approach. Let's explore together how Object Calisthenics can elevate the design of your tactical DDD patterns, offering concrete help for those venturing into DDD for the first time!
Key Trends Shaping the Future of Infrastructure.pdfCheryl Hung
Keynote at DIGIT West Expo, Glasgow on 29 May 2024.
Cheryl Hung, ochery.com
Sr Director, Infrastructure Ecosystem, Arm.
The key trends across hardware, cloud and open-source; exploring how these areas are likely to mature and develop over the short and long-term, and then considering how organisations can position themselves to adapt and thrive.
Transcript: Selling digital books in 2024: Insights from industry leaders - T...BookNet Canada
The publishing industry has been selling digital audiobooks and ebooks for over a decade and has found its groove. What’s changed? What has stayed the same? Where do we go from here? Join a group of leading sales peers from across the industry for a conversation about the lessons learned since the popularization of digital books, best practices, digital book supply chain management, and more.
Link to video recording: https://bnctechforum.ca/sessions/selling-digital-books-in-2024-insights-from-industry-leaders/
Presented by BookNet Canada on May 28, 2024, with support from the Department of Canadian Heritage.
State of ICS and IoT Cyber Threat Landscape Report 2024 previewPrayukth K V
The IoT and OT threat landscape report has been prepared by the Threat Research Team at Sectrio using data from Sectrio, cyber threat intelligence farming facilities spread across over 85 cities around the world. In addition, Sectrio also runs AI-based advanced threat and payload engagement facilities that serve as sinks to attract and engage sophisticated threat actors, and newer malware including new variants and latent threats that are at an earlier stage of development.
The latest edition of the OT/ICS and IoT security Threat Landscape Report 2024 also covers:
State of global ICS asset and network exposure
Sectoral targets and attacks as well as the cost of ransom
Global APT activity, AI usage, actor and tactic profiles, and implications
Rise in volumes of AI-powered cyberattacks
Major cyber events in 2024
Malware and malicious payload trends
Cyberattack types and targets
Vulnerability exploit attempts on CVEs
Attacks on counties – USA
Expansion of bot farms – how, where, and why
In-depth analysis of the cyber threat landscape across North America, South America, Europe, APAC, and the Middle East
Why are attacks on smart factories rising?
Cyber risk predictions
Axis of attacks – Europe
Systemic attacks in the Middle East
Download the full report from here:
https://sectrio.com/resources/ot-threat-landscape-reports/sectrio-releases-ot-ics-and-iot-security-threat-landscape-report-2024/
Software Delivery At the Speed of AI: Inflectra Invests In AI-Powered QualityInflectra
In this insightful webinar, Inflectra explores how artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming software development and testing. Discover how AI-powered tools are revolutionizing every stage of the software development lifecycle (SDLC), from design and prototyping to testing, deployment, and monitoring.
Learn about:
• The Future of Testing: How AI is shifting testing towards verification, analysis, and higher-level skills, while reducing repetitive tasks.
• Test Automation: How AI-powered test case generation, optimization, and self-healing tests are making testing more efficient and effective.
• Visual Testing: Explore the emerging capabilities of AI in visual testing and how it's set to revolutionize UI verification.
• Inflectra's AI Solutions: See demonstrations of Inflectra's cutting-edge AI tools like the ChatGPT plugin and Azure Open AI platform, designed to streamline your testing process.
Whether you're a developer, tester, or QA professional, this webinar will give you valuable insights into how AI is shaping the future of software delivery.
Neuro-symbolic is not enough, we need neuro-*semantic*Frank van Harmelen
Neuro-symbolic (NeSy) AI is on the rise. However, simply machine learning on just any symbolic structure is not sufficient to really harvest the gains of NeSy. These will only be gained when the symbolic structures have an actual semantics. I give an operational definition of semantics as “predictable inference”.
All of this illustrated with link prediction over knowledge graphs, but the argument is general.
GDG Cloud Southlake #33: Boule & Rebala: Effective AppSec in SDLC using Deplo...James Anderson
Effective Application Security in Software Delivery lifecycle using Deployment Firewall and DBOM
The modern software delivery process (or the CI/CD process) includes many tools, distributed teams, open-source code, and cloud platforms. Constant focus on speed to release software to market, along with the traditional slow and manual security checks has caused gaps in continuous security as an important piece in the software supply chain. Today organizations feel more susceptible to external and internal cyber threats due to the vast attack surface in their applications supply chain and the lack of end-to-end governance and risk management.
The software team must secure its software delivery process to avoid vulnerability and security breaches. This needs to be achieved with existing tool chains and without extensive rework of the delivery processes. This talk will present strategies and techniques for providing visibility into the true risk of the existing vulnerabilities, preventing the introduction of security issues in the software, resolving vulnerabilities in production environments quickly, and capturing the deployment bill of materials (DBOM).
Speakers:
Bob Boule
Robert Boule is a technology enthusiast with PASSION for technology and making things work along with a knack for helping others understand how things work. He comes with around 20 years of solution engineering experience in application security, software continuous delivery, and SaaS platforms. He is known for his dynamic presentations in CI/CD and application security integrated in software delivery lifecycle.
Gopinath Rebala
Gopinath Rebala is the CTO of OpsMx, where he has overall responsibility for the machine learning and data processing architectures for Secure Software Delivery. Gopi also has a strong connection with our customers, leading design and architecture for strategic implementations. Gopi is a frequent speaker and well-known leader in continuous delivery and integrating security into software delivery.
Accelerate your Kubernetes clusters with Varnish CachingThijs Feryn
A presentation about the usage and availability of Varnish on Kubernetes. This talk explores the capabilities of Varnish caching and shows how to use the Varnish Helm chart to deploy it to Kubernetes.
This presentation was delivered at K8SUG Singapore. See https://feryn.eu/presentations/accelerate-your-kubernetes-clusters-with-varnish-caching-k8sug-singapore-28-2024 for more details.
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This is a hands-on session specifically designed for automation developers and AI enthusiasts seeking to enhance their knowledge in leveraging the latest intelligent document processing capabilities offered by UiPath.
Speakers:
👨🏫 Andras Palfi, Senior Product Manager, UiPath
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Encryption in Microsoft 365 - ExpertsLive Netherlands 2024Albert Hoitingh
In this session I delve into the encryption technology used in Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Purview. Including the concepts of Customer Key and Double Key Encryption.
Essentials of Automations: Optimizing FME Workflows with ParametersSafe Software
Are you looking to streamline your workflows and boost your projects’ efficiency? Do you find yourself searching for ways to add flexibility and control over your FME workflows? If so, you’re in the right place.
Join us for an insightful dive into the world of FME parameters, a critical element in optimizing workflow efficiency. This webinar marks the beginning of our three-part “Essentials of Automation” series. This first webinar is designed to equip you with the knowledge and skills to utilize parameters effectively: enhancing the flexibility, maintainability, and user control of your FME projects.
Here’s what you’ll gain:
- Essentials of FME Parameters: Understand the pivotal role of parameters, including Reader/Writer, Transformer, User, and FME Flow categories. Discover how they are the key to unlocking automation and optimization within your workflows.
- Practical Applications in FME Form: Delve into key user parameter types including choice, connections, and file URLs. Allow users to control how a workflow runs, making your workflows more reusable. Learn to import values and deliver the best user experience for your workflows while enhancing accuracy.
- Optimization Strategies in FME Flow: Explore the creation and strategic deployment of parameters in FME Flow, including the use of deployment and geometry parameters, to maximize workflow efficiency.
- Pro Tips for Success: Gain insights on parameterizing connections and leveraging new features like Conditional Visibility for clarity and simplicity.
We’ll wrap up with a glimpse into future webinars, followed by a Q&A session to address your specific questions surrounding this topic.
Don’t miss this opportunity to elevate your FME expertise and drive your projects to new heights of efficiency.
2. THE VISION
“A Livable, Economically Diverse Hub for Sustainable Business”
Our Charge
•Assess the feasibility of the Diamond Concept
•How and what it should be
• What the public and private sectors can do to make
it happen
8. • What does the Diamond boundary
mean?
• How can we be competitive nationally?
• We want to diversify the economy through
innovative research and sustainable
industries
• Is this a marketing exercise?
8
9. • Skyplex adjacency to the airport is
a competitive advantage.
• Potential synergy with the University.
• Some DRGR and lands bordering on
mines poses challenge for development.
10. • Effective public-private partnerships
are essential.
• A concern planning won’t bear fruit
• People need to be patient. It will take time
to achieve the vision.
• We don’t want “more of the same”
11. WE HEARD YOU WANT
•
A complete community to attract families
•
Walkable, comfortable setting with
Transportation Choices
•
Attract and retain FGCU faculty and
students
•
Distinctive architecture and landscape
•
Cool things to do
20. Foundations of the Recent “Consensus” 1950 - 2007
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
The Open Road
Demographics – uniform household structure
Cheap energy
Abundant, available and accessible land
Massive government subsidies - home mortgages, strip
construction, highway construction & maintenance
6. Fordist model of national economic development –
based on consuming homes, cars, and home
appliances.
7. Nostalgia - New generations of Americans learned to
associate sprawl with America
21. Foundations of the Emerging Consensus 2008 - ?
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
The Open Road
Demographics – uniform household structure
Cheap energy
Abundant, available and accessible land
Massive government subsidies - home mortgages, strip
construction, highway construction & maintenance
6. Fordist model of national economic development –
based on consuming homes, cars, and home
appliances.
7. Nostalgia - New generations of Americans learned to
associate sprawl with America
22. Does the Mid-20th Century
“Consensus” and its City format
still fit the needs of today’s
economic activity?
27. Saskia Sassen: the heightened
importance of rapid creative
invention has effected all industries
– from mining and agriculture to
electronics.
28. Innovation is a social process
Research has shown that
innovation comes
from:
• Group collaboration
rather than individual
solitary effort.
Source: analytics20.org
• Interaction between
people with different
specializations,
experiences, and
perspectives.
29. Essential Principal: Innovation is fostered by
providing settings that bring people together to
collaborate and exchange ideas
• In the office and the lab
• In the conference room
• In cafes, bars and
restaurants
• During breaks, recreation
and leisure
• Especially while socializing
30. We are still designing
our cities to meet the
needs of the old
industrial economy
33. Leading cities (of all sizes) are beginning to
understand:
To Attract, Build, and Serve
the Businesses of Tomorrow, we must
Physically re-shape cities
to attract and accommodate the needs of
innovators
36. Emerging: A Dynamic Mix of Uses
(instead of the old habit of separating uses)
Offices
Hotel
Offices
Studios
Small-medium
sized businesses
University of Salford
& iTV
BBC
Housing
BBC
BBC
HDTV
Entertainment
MediaCity – Manchester UK
37. Emerging: A Range of Building & Workspace Types
Mixture of space costs, sizes, and configurations to
match the needs of different work activity in close proximity
Quality Medium Sized Space
Creative rehab – lower cost spaces
New lower cost, small scale space
Established Corporate Space
38. The U.S. General Services Administration has embraced these
ideas in planning and managing its properties:
Source: GSA Public Buildings Service White Paper, Leveraging Mobility, Managing Place (2010)
40. Segregated land uses + arterial roadway system
– failing as a habitat
Forces Undermining the Viability of the “Modernist” City:
•Poor Accessibility
•Rapid Consumption of Farmland, Natural Resources
•Acceleration of Climate Change
•Wasteful of Diminishing Fossil Fuel Reserves
•Increasingly expensive for families
41. Emerging: Transit-Connected Hubs of Activity
• Multi-Nucleated
Patterns of
walkable, bikeable,
mixed-use, denser
development
• Integrated with a
Transit Network
offering modern,
frequent service
44. Activity-generating retail is one of the
most precious city building
commodities. Urban vitality drives
innovation and attracts “talent.”
The most important and most difficult decision in the
design of the (suburban) metro area is where (and how)
to strategically build the retail.
45. To foster creativity & innovation
cities must provide “Vital Centers” with clustering,
density, mix, and settings for interaction
Centerless Workplace
“Vital Center”
Classifying and locating these centers
is a critical strategic decision cities must make
46. ULI Emerging Trends 2011: Commercial real
estate needs to cope with “Era of Less”
“Most areas need less retail,
not more. Endless strip
construction is over. …. [we
must] rethink how we
deliver retail in better
transportation-linked urban
centers, moving away from
car-dependent models”
52. PREVIOUS ERA:
Economic Value
Created by large corporate firms
•
•
•
•
•
Attracting Talent
Training
Compensation packages
Services
Infrastructure/Building
Investment
53. PREVIOUS ERA:
Economic Development
Tap into the “Big-Firm Ecosystem” by attracting large firms
• Transportation access
• Infrastructure
improvements
• Financial incentives
(tax incentives, land
write-downs, etc.)
55. Change: Work is distributed among a
highly connected network of
specialized, collaborating partners
56. To be successful in this transformed
economic landscape, Cities need to:
1. Attract and accommodate small and
medium sized firms along with large
ones.
2. Attract, produce and retain a pool
of Knowledge Workers.
57. CEOs for Cities survey of
25 – 34 year old college graduates:
• Almost 64 percent of them
reported they pick where they
want to live before launching a
job search.
• They are about 90% more likely
to live in close-in urban
neighborhoods
59. Attracting, Building, and Serving
the Businesses of Tomorrow requires
a new approach to Economic Development
Industrial Economy
Focus Exclusively on
Attracting Big, Vertically
Integrated Firms
Innovation Economy
Physically re-shape cities
to attract and accommodate the
needs of innovators
+
Assemble knowledge districts
that foster innovation and
produce innovators
61. Smaller cities and
towns are
remaking
themselves as
hubs for the
knowledge
economy.
Livable cities draw creative
people, and creative people
spawn jobs. Some places
you’d never expect—small
cities not dominated by a
university—are learning how
to lure knowledge workers,
entrepreneurs, and other
imaginative types at levels
that track or exceed the US
average (30 percent of
workers)
“Small Cities Feed the Knowledge
Economy,” WIRED Magazine –
May 31, 2012
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62. Build on Local Strengths
1. Studies have shown that up to 80 percent of
job growth is from existing businesses
2. In the new era of specialized, networked
businesses, proximity matters
3. Focus on strengthening existing workplace
districts / industry clusters
4. Target those industries related to existing
City assets
63. • When Work Changes, the
City is Transformed
• The City will be Reshaped
• New Formats of
Development in the
Innovation Economy
64. Stability Areas and Change Areas
Treeline Blvd
I-75
Daniels Pkwy
RSW
Terminal Acc Rd
Alico Rd
FGCU
LEGEND
Stable Area
Estero Pkwy
Change Area
Institutional Area
Natural Preserve
Co
c
rks
rew
Rd
65. Current Economic
Conditions
• Very large area to absorb
• Glut of vacant space across
all commercial and
industrial
– Low rents, marketwide
• Markets rebounding in
2013, but a long ways to go
66. Two paths
• Wait for market trends to develop the area
• Go after what you want
67. Waiting for market trends
• Will likely result in
– Low density, low cost development patterns
– Scattered absorption
– Little cohesive identity
68. Stability Areas and Change Areas
Treeline Blvd
I-75
Daniels Pkwy
RSW
Terminal Acc Rd
Alico Rd
FGCU
LEGEND
Stable Area
Estero Pkwy
Change Area
Institutional Area
Natural Preserve
Co
c
rks
rew
Rd
69. Daniels Pkwy
I-75
Institutional
Treeline Blvd
Potential Development
Pattern
RSW
Innovation Cluster
Tradeport/Industrial
Terminal Acc Rd
Commercial Strip
Alico Rd
Commercial Retail
Hospitality & Services
Residential
FGCU
Natural Area
Estero Pkwy
Entertainment
r
Co
rew
ksc
Rd
103. Encourage development will
require addressing
• Innovation
• Infrastructure
• Quality places
• Human capital
•
•
•
•
through
Investment
Encouragement
Recruitment
Focus
108. Target industries
• Aerospace
• Clean technology
– Biomass, renewable fuel sources
• Life sciences
• Information technology
• Health care
• Medical devices
• Freight and logistics
• Travel and tourism
113. Policy
• CURRENT: County General Plan Update
– Ensure that the Research and Enterprise Diamond
vision is emphatically articulated in the Update.
– Define the resulting supportive regulations and
catalytic capital investments
• CONCURRENT/FUTURE: Zoning & Regs Update
– Where new formats critical, revise development
regulations to provide greater investment reliability
(i.e. form-based) for both investors and neighbors
– The Land Development Code’s Compact
Communities Regulations is an example and
template.
115. Conventional Zoning
1. Very Restrictive Use Control (Use
Separation)
2. Very Specific Density & FAR Control
3. Not Enough Building Scale, Type, Form, &
Character Control
Hard to envision and predict physical
outcomes
116. TOOL –
District/Form Based Regulations:
• Regulations that shape physical characteristics of
buildings for compatibility, such as orientation,
volume, relationship to the street, and
architecture/massing.
• Regulations that are more flexible about adjacent
uses that are compatible with each other (e.g.
housing, workplaces, services)
• These provide greater investment security by
insuring that new (or renovated) buildings will be
located near others of similar type.
117. “Sense of place”
• Understand the “pieces of city” (neighborhoods,
subdistricts) whose in-common physical and
performance characteristics of development tell you
where you are.
• Each “piece of city” has to have developments of
physical coherence and regularity to make them
recognizable, valuable and secure for investing.
< < < OUTSKIRTS < < <
The “Urban Transect” (from the Smart Code, v.7)
> > > CENTERS > > >
118. Code Focused on Physical Outcomes
1. District Zones / Standards
2. Corridor Frontages / Standards.
119. Land Use Zones
District Zones
Define the Places for Incubators, Accelerators, Training Organizations,
Technical Assistance, NGOs, Institutions, Regulators…
120. Capital Improvements
• Priority Catalyst Projects
– Multi-modal street improvements
– Transit links for highest-priority destinations
– Boulevard Street Tree Plantings (ensure that Lee
County’s natural image remains visible along entry
corridors)
• Public-private partnerships to enable highspeed internet connectivity opportunities
(dark fiber activation, etc.)
121. The Public Agency Role:
1. Lead (or support) the vision
2. Provide a reliable policy
context for investment at
different scales
3. Ensure the emergence of
critical physical elements
(especially the infrastructure +
public pieces)
122. Thanks!
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AIA Florida Southwest
Lee County Port Authority
Florida Gulf Coast University
Lee County Metropolitan Planning Organization
Real Estate Investment Society
Estero Council of Community Leaders
Horizon Council
Lee County Community Sustainability Advisory Committee
Alliance for the Arts
Lee County Board of County Commissioners
Lee County Departments: Community Development, GIS,
Transportation, Parks & Recreation, Visitor & Convention Bureau,
Economic Development, Administration, Office of Sustainability
From 8th grade history we are familiar with story of the industrial revolution and how:
“Industrial revolution” was when steam power (later oil) took over from muscle power, creating enormous new markets, employment, and wealth.
A prosperity machine was created by change from agriculture + crafts economy to factory economy
So we say, when the nature of work changes, the city is entirely transformed – including formats of real estate investments
By early 20th Century, architects and planners around the world admired America’s prosperity machine and its scientific and organizational basis.
Planners are familiar with the story of how many leading international ones came together in a Congress (CIAM) in 1933. Under the resulting Charter of Athens, they codified how to plan cities with separated use zones.
Identified 4 primary use categories of work, home, shopping, and the roads to connect them.
With gasoline cost of the era not a factor, the many trips generated by segregated uses was not important.
Highly influential and spread to become the paradigm for planning all US cities and many around the world.
Even use the same colors on the maps.
To someone from the pre-industrial era, or even the early industrial era (v.1), our present suburban-scape and city-scape looks like MARS.
So, as when early industrialization transformed the US agricultural countryside and cities:
Midcentury US industry transformed again, especially growth of white collar workforce of R+D and administration.
They moved to suburbs for expansion, lifestyle appeal, and desired workers, and to leave behind factories and aging city centers.
Important to note that business park format was conceived and implemented by a relatively small group of business leaders.
Once the format was seen to mesh with work and living patterns, it became the paradigm.
It became a part of the new version of the prosperity machine.
It was a successful experiment that fit with the industrial economy of the era
It became the “Consensus” of how we build.
The consensus on which our national system for buliding relies is fraying badly
What of the assembly line – formerly based on huge inputs of synchronized and tightly controlled hourly labor?
At first we inserted information technology into work settings under the old paradigm.
This principal is now part of the updated thinking of one of the most conservative real estate organizations: The US General Services Administration, the source of this diagram
- It is not just about putting better seats by the water cooler, inside the buildings
- it is about organizing the districts where the key drivers of our economy are housed
We were sure of ourselves; we believed in where we were going, and we wanted to go there together
Is out of sync with the dense horizontal network of collaborative business innovation today.
This network and the size variety of its range of participants also the basis for today’s “innovation ecosystem”
Usually segregated in type of work as well
There are places that house chunks of the innovation ecosystem today that provide a diverse array of workplace development types in close proximity
These better enable market-driven clustering of firms at different scales to be close to the action, and support interaction
EXACERBATES OUR DRIVING-CENTRIC LIFESTYLE – SINGLE USE, LOW DENSITY, NOT WALKABLE, ENTIRELY AUTO-ORIENTED, SLATHERED OVER WITH IMPERMEABLE SURFACES
Set amidst large block and wide roads – accessed by driving, not walking
Just as the contrast between the 20th and 21st Century forces of change are becoming clear,
The contrast between place types to house these drivers of the economy are becoming clear.
The Business Park model supported a segregated way of working.
The emerging model supports connection, activity, and convenience
This is also a key to the 2nd question of supporting creativity and innovation, of attracting INNOVATORS
The “there” there of any neighborhood is created by the hot spot of focused activity.
Vital centers are especially important for workplace districts – traditionally where there has been no vitality to support connectivity
By midcentury, American corporate management evolved as companies successfully expanded to national and global scale.
Tiers of upper, middle and lower management created multiple branch operations controlled by head office.
Specialized professional functions and divisions developed at each level.
All of these created need for more administrative, professional & R+D space – typically housed before at factory facilities.
Although traditional city centers cannot accommodate all or even most of the economy’s workplace. Important to note that on ly in the 2nd one, work is the predominant use
By early 20th Century, architects and planners around the world admired America’s prosperity machine and its scientific and organizational basis.
Planners are familiar with the story of how many leading international ones came together in a Congress (CIAM) in 1933. Under the resulting Charter of Athens, they codified how to plan cities with separated use zones.
Identified 4 primary use categories of work, home, shopping, and the roads to connect them.
With gasoline cost of the era not a factor, the many trips generated by segregated uses was not important.
Highly influential and spread to become the paradigm for planning all US cities and many around the world.
Even use the same colors on the maps.
To someone from the pre-industrial era, or even the early industrial era (v.1), our present suburban-scape and city-scape looks like MARS.