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Smart Cities: The Players, the Potential and the Role of Planning Practice
Karen Quinn Fung Secretary-Treasurer, APA Technology Division [email protected] EPIC Conference – Puget Sound Section, Washington APA 4 June 2014, 11:30am
Let’s make a deal over lunch.
Lighting Format, 6"¾"
Stories & Examples,
5 APA Task Force, 5
Discussion, 10
YES, LIGHTNING FORMAT! 20 SLIDES, 20 SECONDS EACH…NOW!
Pecha Kucha, Ignite, etc.
WHAT IS(N’T) THE SMART CITY? What is the smart city?
Data-driven Responsive Adaptive Cutting-edge Predictable Controllable Cost-effective / efficient Resource-mindful
…SMART GENERALLY DEPENDS ON WHO YOU ASK
WHO TALKS ABOUT THE SMART CITY?
So far… Hardware & Infrastructure Broadband technology Energy App developers Internet of Things startups
Increasingly…
Transportation planners Sustainability scholars & advocates Technology & Public Policy analysts
Service & Interaction Designers
TECHNOLOGY TO BRING ABOUT __________________ CITIES
versus
SMART ______________ (noun)
Please to be giving me creative partnerships and collaborations, social inclusion/justice, models for funding, accountability and policy with the new technology, kthx.
OPEN TRIP PLANNER
THIS IS OUR STOP
SERVICE DESIGN
OPEN GOVERNMENT CULTURE & DATA
NEW FRONTIERS OF URBAN EXPERIENCE
BOTTOM-UP CIVIC HACKING FOR __________ CITIES
TOP-DOWN SMART CITIES
BOTTOM-UP CIVIC HACKING FOR __________ CITIES
TOP-DOWN SMART CITIES
and
DEVELOPING A PRAXIS FOR SMART CITIES
WHO TELLS THE STORIES ABOUT TECHNOLOGY IN CITIES? (AND HOW?)
WHOSE SIDE DO PEOPLE THINK PLANNERS ARE ON? …ARE WE WALKING OUR TALK?
WHAT DECISIONS OUGHT WE BE INVOLVED IN? WHAT OPPORTUNITIES ARE WE NOT SEIZING?
WHO FEELS LIKE WE DO?
PEOPLE THAT SAY INSIGHTFUL THINGS ABOUT SMART CITIES ACCORDING TO KAREN
Adam Greenfield user experience
Anthony Townsend futurist
Kelvin Campbell urban scholar
Boyd Cohen climate adaptation strategist
Jennifer Evans-Cowley planning lecturer/researcher
Malcolm McCullough architect
Bill Pitkin planning researcher
Rick Robinson executive architect
Saskia Sassen sociologist
Richard Sennett sociologist
Alex Steffen futurist & sustainability advocate
APA TASK FORCE ON SMART CITIES FOR SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITIES
Coming to APA National 2015 in Seattle! Seeking volunteers – help us ask the right questions & answer them as practicing planners! Transportation Division - @apatpd Sustainable Communities Division - @apascd Technology Division - @apa_technology
Here endeth the Lightning Talk.
THE HACKERSPACE / MAKER MOVEMENT
SERVICES DESIGNED FOR CAR-FREE LIVING
OPEN STREET MAP à WALKING PAPERS
FROM DATA TO COLLABORATIVE MEANING MAKING
OPEN GOVERNMENT CULTURE SUPPORTING PLANNING CONVERSATIONS
E-CITIZENSHIP
We are not building yesterday’s places. They’ll be walkable, but they’ll also need to speak to the integrated information and service experiences people have become accustomed to, in addition to addressing our goals for livability, health and ecology. * Alex Steffen, 2013 EcoDistricts Summit, “The City As Service”
APA TASK FORCE ON SMART CITIES
Where shall we go with all of this? Who are you / do you want to be working with on this?
DISCUSSION
THANK YOU!
Twitter: @counti8, @APATechnology E-mail: [email protected] Web: countablyinfinite.ca; vancouverpublicspace.ca Task Force: http://planning.org/divisions/ transportation | sustainable | tech |
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