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Tomorrows Connected Communities:ICT Strategies and Opportunities

Connected Urban Development Global Conference 2008

Bill HutchisonChair, i-Waterfront Advisory CouncilExecutive Director, Intelligent CommunitiesWaterfront [email protected]

www.waterfrontoronto.caSan FranciscoFebruary 21 2008
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Established 2001

Three levels of government

Mandate to lead and oversee all aspects of revitalization

Waterfront Toronto


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Worlds Largest Urban Revitalization Initiative

Context for Revitalization:

Revitalization vs. Redevelopment

Goals: Sustainable Economic and Social Development

Blending Business Capital and Human Capital


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$17 billion

$4 billion public sector

$13 billion private investment

Four Districts

Exhibition Place/Ontario Place

East Bayfront

West Don Lands

Port Lands

200 hectares of parks and public spaces

Major Film Studio

40,000 residential units: +100,000 residents

Ten million square feet of employment space

Overall Scope


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Context for Revitalization Revitalization vs. redevelopment

Public Policy Agenda:

Reduce urban sprawl

Develop sustainable communities

Build more affordable housing

Create more parks and public spaces

Expand public transit

Increase economic competitiveness


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Public Accessibility

Sustainable Development

Design Excellence

Economic Prosperity

Fiscal Sustainability

Fundamental Principles


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Leading edge technology and innovation

Mixed use/local services

Transit

Parks & Open Spaces

Green Building Requirements

District Energy

Intelligent Communities

Market Transformation

Sustainability Framework/Swedish Audit

Sustainability


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Vision

Overall Scope


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Lake Ontario Park


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Waterfront Neighbourhoods

Lower Don Lands

Port LandsPort Lands

EastEastBayfrontBayfront

West Don LandsWest Don Lands


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Central Waterfront Promenade

International design competition

Bathurst to Parliament

Continuous public access

Transform Queens Quay into iconic boulevard


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West Don Lands & East Bayfront

130 acres of parks and publicspaces -

25% of precinct

12,000 residential housing units,

including 2,400 social

3, 000,000 sq ft commercial

Elementary School(s)

Recreation and childcare centres

Community Wellness Centre

Transit, bikeways & pedestrianconnections


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Strategy for Sustainable Economic &Social Development: Create a newIntelligent Community; i-Waterfront

Proven over 20 years to facilitateeconomic and development

Ensures Business InnovationAND Social Innovation

Key to success =

i-waterfront*Net

(low-cost gigabit broadbandintelligent communicationsinfrastructure: FTTH andubiquitous wireless


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Experienced Team

Integrated Design Process

LEED Gold Certification

Minimum Energy Use

Green Roofs

District Energy

Green Building Specifications


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District Energy system in the West

Don Lands and East Bayfront

District Energy provides heating andcooling to a community of buildings

from one central plant

Reduces costs of new buildings,lowers air emissions, improves air

quality, consistent with corporationssustainability goals

District Energy


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Transit first approach; within 5 minute walk of all residences

EA underway

Construction scheduled to start 2008; service operational in

2009

Transit


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i-waterfront*net: Open Access Architecture

Residents

Businesses

Institutions

Content and services

Ultra

broadbandInfrastructure

Content and

serviceproviders


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The Key Elements in Implementing i-Waterfront

Community collaboration:

Define the vision

Create the roadmap

Economic development, marketing and inbound investment:

Building the i-Waterfront plan into the economic developmentand job creation plans

Leadership:

Education of the WATERFRONToronto Board of Directors

Create and use of the i-Waterfront Advisory Council

Create focused subcommittees of the Advisory Council to lead the

e-application strategies

Create international expert panel on broadband infrastructure


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Other Global Intelligent Communities*

As selected by the Intelligent Community Forum,

ICF..a Global Think Tank based in New York

Taipei, Waterloo, Glasgow, Sunderland,

Mitaka, Singapore, Tianjin, Seoul, Vasteras

and many more

The Winning Characteristics : Communityleadership, collaboration, digital democracy,marketing, sustainability, advancedbroadband infrastructure


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In Closing

Ultra broadband infrastructure provides the foundation and

the first step

The e-applications generate usage social prosperity andsustainable economic development.


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