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a planet of civic laboratories
bottom-up innovation
for the smart city
Anthony Townsend
Research Director
INSTITUTE FOR THE FUTURE
SmartCity Expo and World Congress
Barcelona
29 November 2011
What is a smart city?
Let’s look back in time…
1855 city of the telegraph
“calm and tranquil, almost motionless man
of the earlier generations that preceded us”
vs.
“active, daring, entrepreneurial man… who
in a few brief instants travels vast
distances…
the man who in just minutes transmits and
circulates his news, his instructions, his
commands right around the globe.”
1855 four utilities
2011 “the network is the fourth utility”
Wim Elfrink Chief Globalization Officer Cisco Systems (2011)
1890 urban analytics 1.0
0
1,000,000
2,000,000
3,000,000
4,000,000
5,000,000
6,000,000
1890 1900 1910 1920
New York Chicago
“smart” technology unlocked urban growth
1900 13%
1950 29%
2008 50%
2100 90%
global urban population
double the world’s urban population in 100 years
completely urbanize the planet
2008
urbanization and ubiquity collide again
2008
more than 50% urban
more mobile broadband than fixed
more things online than people
5 billion people connected
a symbiosis
“in the lifetimes of our children, the urbanization project will be competed.
We will have built the system of cities that
their descendants will live with forever”
-Paul Romer, economist
so we get one chance
to urbanize properly
ubiquity is a driver of urbanization
also a toolkit
to address its challenges
2011 New Songdo City
behind the scenes innovations
re-inventing existing systems
efficiency, control, convenience
there’s another vision
entrepreneurs + citizen hackers
sociability, transparency, fun
environmental monitoring la montre Verte / City Pulse
crisis management Ushahidi
citizen sentiment dynamics Pulse of the Nation
city governments
fuel the fire with
open data
we all believe…
we are building technologies that make cities better
“better”
fast-emerging conflicts over…
what should be measured
how it is measured
how it is used to analyze and control
who owns it
who has access
where it goes later
a battle for the smart city?
in my city!
the battle for the motorized city
“Cities have the capability of providing something for everybody
only because and only when they are created by everybody.”
-Jane Jacobs
a planet of civic laboratories??
good technology design is just like good city design
every city must address its own unique problems
every city has to adapt, repurpose, create its own solutions
every city is a laboratory for smart
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY Center for Urban Science and Progress
“Using cities as living laboratories
will be essential to this research enterprise.”
avoiding the battle: aligning smart city stakeholders
industry startups government
a planet of civic laboratories
bottom-up innovation
for the smart city
Anthony Townsend
Research Director
INSTITUTE FOR THE FUTURE
SmartCity Expo and World Congress
Barcelona
29 November 2011
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