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Smart and sustainable cities:
International business opportunities for the Thames Valley across the
Commonwealth Tuesday 6th May, 2014
#futurecities
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© University of Reading 2008 www.reading.ac.uk
School of Construction Management and Engineering
City Visions and Urban Innovation
Tim Dixon, Professor in Sustainable Futures in the Built Environment, School of Construction Management & Engineering
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Planning for the future • Unpredictable • Speed of change • Complexity • Conflict and disagreement • Disconnect between planning and
longer term environment issues
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Why do we need visions?
Source: Wikimedia
• Sense of purpose • Vitality and belief systems • What sort of future do we want? • Promote discussion and debate • Mobilise resources around
desired futures
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EPSRC Retrofit 2050
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Vision I: Smart-Networked City: A hub within a highly mobile and competitive globally networked society Pervasive, information-rich virtual environments integrated with the physical world, driving efficiencies through automation with market oriented solutions. Vision II: Compact City: A site of intensive and efficient urban living Urban land-use and infrastructure provision are optimised into dense urban settlement forms to reduce demand and improve use of energy and resources. Communitarian and localist values. Vision III: Self Reliant-Green City: A self-reliant bio-region, living in harmony with nature A self-reliant system of circular metabolism, where resources are local, demand is constrained and the inputs and outputs of the city are connected (cradle to cradle). Cooperative and collectivist values. www.retrofit2050.org.uk
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What makes a successful vision? • Vision, strategy and action • Linking climate change, energy, economy
and people • Participatory and inclusive • Analytically sound • Politically viable
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Urban innovation • Urban hubs and
local links • Technology and
institutions • Co-creation and
partnership (‘urban transition labs’/’urban rooms’)
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Source: NESTA
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Reading UK Future 2050 Project • BIS Future Cities Foresight Programme (2065 City
Visions) • Environment, economy and lifestyle
• How can Reading be smart and sustainable? • What would low carbon living look like?
• Physical infrastructure, growth and development • What will be the key growth areas? • What are Reading’s key infrastructure requirements?
• Partners: Barton Willmore, University of Reading, Reading UK CIC
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Key challenges • Every city is different • People (and their behaviour) matter • Overcoming fragmentation (sectoral and
governance) • Linking economic growth and the low
carbon agendas • Urban infrastructure and retrofitting funding:
new business models