Urban Systems Meeting

Imperial College London 2013

Agenda Day 1, Sept 10 AMbvTime Theme Presenter / Facilitator

09:00 Welcome Prof. John Polak, Imperial College

09:15 Panel – The City as a Design Problem Prof. Michael Batty, University College London; Shane Mitchell, Cisco Urban Innovation; Michael Weinstock, Architectural Association. Facilitator Colin Harrison (USC)

10:00 Break

10:30 Summary thus far Colin Harrison

10:45 Breakout Sessions

The Adaptive City Richard Dawson, University of Newcastle

The Personalised City Shane Mitchell, Cisco

The Supportive City Martin Rieser, Institute of Creative Technologies, De Montfort University, Leicester

Perceptions of Quality of Life Rick Robinson, IBM UK

Agenda Day 1, Sept 10 PMTime Theme Presenter / Facilitator

13:30 Talks on Illustrative Projects Prof. Michael Batty, Centre for Advanced Spatial Analytics, UCLProf. Richard Dawson, Earth Systems Engineering, University of NewcastleProf. Martin Rieser, Institute of Creative Technologies, De Montfort University

15:00 Break

15:30 Summary Thus Far Colin Harrison, USC

15:45 4 break out group discussions to further develop scenarios.

Themes and leaders as before

17:00 Report by group rapporteurs Jurij Paraszczak, IBM Research

17:30 Keynote Presentation Peter Madden, CEO of the Future Cities Catapult

18:00- 20:00

Student Posters and ReceptionSkempton Building

All

Agenda Day 2, Sept 11 AMTime Theme Presenter / Facilitator

9:00 Summarise Day 1 Colin Harrison

9:15 Discuss scenarios from Day 1 theme workshops

Jurij Paraszczak and the rapporteurs.

10:30 Break

11:00 4 break out group discussions to refine scenarios, cross-cutting.

Themes As Before

13:00 Lunch

14:00 Talk on “Quality of Life” Samir Menon, Eco Sustainability Services, Tata Consulting Services

15:00 Break

15;30 Industry Views on People and Smart Cities

Volker Buscher, Arup; Shane Mitchell, Cisco, and Jurij Paraszczak, IBM. Facilitator Colin Harrison, USC

16:30 Closing panel by workshop rapporteurs

Jurij Paraszczak, IBM

17:15 Wrap up John Polak, Imperial College and Jurij Paraszczak, IBM

Defining the Themes• For each of the themes - lets develop a compact

explanation– Adaptive City – Personalised City– Supportive City– Quality of Life

• In a short paragraph, what do we mean by each of the themes ?

• For each theme how do we measure them, what data do they need ?

Adaptive City• Integrates a variety of professions• City that responds to internal and external

changes with minimal resource requirements while maintaining a required functionality

• City denizens need minimal stress to meet their needs to live in a city

• City denizens understand and play their role as part of the city (they provide input and response)

• Balances the needs of the individual and the many

• Mayor and flow therefrom• CMM Maturity model• Resilience – is adaptivity

– Flexibility and diversity, redundancy and modularity, resourcefulness, situational awareness, capacity to learn

• Many organisaitons making decisions– Plurality of objectives

• What are city objectives ? How are they measured• Adaptive city offers affordance to actors to contribute• Need elected body with a mandate – how to flow

objectives to influence city – define ROI of investments

• Adaptive city drives change promotes social attraction, promotes governance – Decisions made and a hierarchy exists. Government

enables health promotion as part of agenda

• Successful / Adaptive city has a vision and economic resilience which is linked to the vision– London as example

• People centered view – city where smart people exist, adaptive city has adaptive denizens– Centralisation does not help with adaptability

Personalised City

Personalised City

• How denizens interact with the city and their modes of interactions– Issues of personal data and its ownership– Evolution of engagement of individuals with cities (data, experience etc)

• Appears to individual that the city is designed around them– Capacity/affordance from the city to engage in different ways– Harmony between city members

• City as org or people ?– City is concentration of human interaction

• Lisbon experiment – Rick

• City with aspirations – is often adaptive• Portland, Boston, Sidney, Amsterdam

– Visionary Plans with aspirations, structures who interact with each other and private sector well

– Developed visions and structure personally– Barcelona District 21– Hamburg artist rents– Charleston SC– Middle East Qatar, Masdar Songdo (did not work)– East Brum

Supportive City

• Supports social engagement mechanisms with transparent governance processes– Governance associated with planning and that

associated with operations

• Gaming – Bogota and clowns Penalosa. Mockus– Water consumption issues, cycling path, planned

develpoment

• Jaime lerner Curitiba• Connecting the disconnected

– But cities are not democracies

Quality of Life

• Mechanism to determine what people care about based on Maslow’s pyramid– Dimension by which people’s attitude affects the view of

the pyramid (age, culture etc)– Urban contexts and how they support quality of life

• Availability and quality of resources,economic wealth etc patents etc

– Framework of our concerns and needs– Lets see what’s already been done – Liveable Cities

Project– Travel and commuting

Quality of Life

• Use of Maslow’s pyramid was a good map to a larger entity

• Whatever reduces stress improves the QoL– Independent of city or rural area

• Should we expect citizens to actively engage or should the city adapt