open city? platform urbanism and the data-driven urban innovation agenda
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What are the possibilities of open data in the city? This presentation takes a look at different ways of imagining cities in the age of big data - and introduces some critical questions about rights to knowledge and infrastructure not only for urban planners but everyday citizens as well.TRANSCRIPT
Open City: Platform Urbanism and the data-driven urban
innovation agenda
“Not since the planting of
cobblestones, the laying of
water mains, or the roll out of
sewage pipes have we installed
such a vast and versatile new
infrastructure for controlling and
organising our physical world”
Anthony Townsend, Smart Cities, 2013
Re-imagining the city: The City as software
development kit
Re-imagining the city: The Urban Operating System
In 2012, for the first time ever, the TED Prize went not to an individual, but to an idea on
which our planet's future depends: the City 2.0
Re-imaging the city: open data interventions
A new civics?
You are part of the mind of the smart city itself. And that gives you power
to shape the future.
Look in your pocket. You already own a smart-city construction kit.
The democratization of computing power that started with the PC in the 1970s and leaped onto the Internet in the 1990s is now spilling out into
the streets.
Anthony Townsend 2013
Re-imaging the City: Platform Urbanism
"In 2012 it made less and less sense to talk about 'the Internet’, 'the PC
business,' 'telephones,' 'Silicon Valley,' or 'the media,' and much more sense to just study Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon and Microsoft. These big five American vertically organized silos are re-making
the world in their image. ”
-Bruce Stirling
When I wrote The World Is Flat [in 2005] Facebook did
not exist, Twitter was a
sound, the Cloud was a
sky, 4G was a parking space,
applications were what you sent to college, LinkedIn was a prison, and, for most people, Skype was a
typo. All of that changed in the last six years.
Thomas Friedman, 2011
‘Government as Platform’
There’s been a convulsive shock to the system that’s creating this
burning platform in all of our institutions,” he says. “This is it. This is happening now.” – Don
Tapscott
“If you’re really building a platform, your customers and partners build new features
before you do” – Tim O Reilly
Consumerisation of open data
Rights to infrastructure?
