martin stewart-weeks - intro to day2 and review of day1
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Review of Day 1
Connecting Cities for Sustainable Living: An Urban RevolutionMartin Stewart‐Weeks, IBSG (A/Pac)
Remember what Nic said?• We confront a perfect storm…urbanisation, ageing, infrastructure renewal, climate change, an unprecedented financial and economic crisis
• We then heard lots of stories based on deep insight, smart thinking and innovation
• The question now is how does it all start to come together in a plan for change ‐ a common vision that will motivate and accelerate execution
Cities are 75% of the problem…
• …so they have to be 75% of the solution
If you get it right in the city, you get it right
Scale and speed
• Every day 180k…• A new city of 1 million every week for the next 30 years…
How do cities keep up – quality, access and cost
Parking tickets in NYC
• What happens when an immovable object (traditional government silos and processes) meets an irresistible force (social networking + citizen engagement)?
Trying to change the way government works…
Squaring the sustainability triangle
EconomicSocial
Environmental
Changing behaviour
• EcoMap, PTA, Cisco Bangalore, SenseableCity…?
• Information is the key (lots of it, everywhere, telling us things…)
Closing the gap between knowledge and action
Information , communication and collaboration, enabled and accelerated by the network as a critical infrastructure, changes the way we think about, design, build, manage and renew sustainable cities
An idea
Integrate
Converge
Connect
Platform for Urban Services
• Providing common services that are needed by different parts of the city…
• … on a platform that is designed and provisioned on a whole‐of‐city basis.
Buildings
Transport and mobility
People and community (live, play, work and learn)
Culture and creativity
Economic resilience Putting the pieces
together: a vision for the connected sustainable city ?
EM Forster: Howards End (1910)
Our motto?
“Only connect! …live in fragments no longer”