This document discusses how cities are becoming "smarter" due to new technologies and increased connectivity. It notes that the 21st century will be the century of cities, with 70% of people living in cities by 2050. Key topics covered include sustainability, urban planning, architecture, infrastructure, ubiquitous computing/Internet of Things, community-powered solutions, government-enabled solutions, drawing parallels between the Internet and how cities can operate, and examples of smart cities like New Songdo being built from scratch. The document suggests that in 5 years, smart cities will be able to predict diseases, self-repair infrastructure, and substantially lower emissions through increased connectivity between cities.

1. Igor Schwarzmann
Twitter: @zeigor
eMail: schwarzmann@gmail.com
http://smartcities.posterous.com/
I'm explaining technology
induced social change
at Ketchum Pleon
What's so Smart
about Cities?

2. The 19th century was a century
of empires, the 20th century
was a century of nation states.
The 21st century will be the
century of cities. - Wellington
E. Webb, Former mayor of Denver

3. 2050 according to IBM
(USA): 70 percent of
people will be living
in cities.
Image by strangeharvest.com

4. Sustainability
Urban planing
Patterns
Architecture
Infrastructure
...
Wild City, Berlage Institute + STEALTH
http://www.stealth.ultd.net/stealth/01_wildcity.html

5. Chişinău, Nahariya, Tel Aviv,
Darmstadt, Frankfurt am Main,
Cologne, Düsseldorf, Berlin,
New York

6. [...] Next comes ubiquitous
computing, or the age of calm
technology, when technology
recedes into the background of
our lives. - Mark Weiser, Xerox
PARC

7. Ubiquity today

8. Internet of
Things
Photo by Timo Arnall: http://www.flickr.com/photos/timo/1616057288/

9. = A lot of
information
Image by Maya Design: http://vimeo.com/7395079
But how is it
transforming
cities?

10. Community powered
solutions
twitter, 4square, everyblock,
DIYcity, ...

11. Government enabled
solutions

12. A City that thinks
like the web.
- Mark Surman,
Mozilla Foundation

13. Internet = City
• Communities • Communities
• API • API
• Programmable • Programmable
(digital) (digital)
Properties Properties
• Farmville • Farm
• ... • ...

14. IBM Smart Cities: Enhancing
the cities we live in
Image by IBM
In 5 years: Cities will predict diseases, react
to catastrophes before they are called in,
self-repairing
infrastructure, substantially lowered emissions

15. New Songdo. Let's built a city
from scratch.
Photograph by James Whitlow Delano
Gale International + 35 Billion + Cisco
= New 300.000 large, networked
metropolis

16. Build infrastructure + sell
the citizens of the city the
right consumer device for
their infrastructure
= 30 Billion Business

17. New Sondgo = Template for 20
cities in China & India
Future: A network
of networked cities?

18. Everything we think of as
organic and emergent in cities
is absent.
- Adam Greenfield, Nokia

19. Image by urbanismo.com
Our cities are now linked and
learning. - Lord Richard Roger

20. Thank you.
Here be dragons.