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Rick Robinson - Smart Cities - Amey
The document discusses the concept of smart cities and their development with a focus on human-centric design. It emphasizes the role of technology, citizen engagement, and innovation in urban planning while highlighting essential characteristics and tools that facilitate small-scale innovations within cities. Additionally, it includes various resources and references to key figures in the smart urbanism movement.
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- 1. Cover with focuspicture 1 Cover with focus picture 2 Cover with focus picture 3 Concrete, data 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
- 2. Pressure, resilience andinequality
- 3. Data Image from “TheInformation Capital”, James Cheshire and Oliver Uberti http://theinformationcapital.com/
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- 6. Brutal urbanism Photo ofMasshouse 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
- 7. Smart urbanism Images andconcept 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?
- 8. Photo of JaneJacobs 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/
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- 11. Citizen engagement &social value
- 12. Smart Hack Birmingham2012 Coders taking part in “Smart Hack” at Birmingham Science Park Aston in 2012 by Sebastian Lenton: https://twitter.com/sebastianlenton
- 13. Birmingham Smart CityAlliance http://birminghamsmartcityalliance.wordpress.com/
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- 15. Translational thinking Photo bylecercle 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
- 16. Cover with focuspicture 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
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- #3 (“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
- #9 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/
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- #13 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?
- #14 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.
- #15 … 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.
- #16 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/ http://www.fastcompany.com/1842367/tropical-tale-tourists-networks-and-new-kind-leadership