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Concrete, data and town planning

How to build Smart Cities as if people mattered

Dr Rick Robinson FBCS CITP FRSA AoU, IT Director, Smart Data and Technology

rick.robinson@amey.co.uk http://theurbantechnologist.com @dr_rick

Pressure, resilience and inequality

Data

Image from “The Information Capital”, James Cheshire and Oliver Uberti http://theinformationcapital.com/

Technology

Accessible Technology

Brutal urbanism

Photo of Masshouse Circus, Birmingham, before its redevelopment, by Birmingham City Councilhttp://www.birmingham.gov.uk/cs/Satellite?c=Page&childpagename=Planning-Management%2FPageLayout&cid=1223092740947&pagename=BCC%2FCommon%2FWrapper%2FWrapper

Smart urbanism

Images and concept from Kelvin Campbell’s “Smart Urbanism” movement:http://www.smarturbanism.org.uk/

Massive / Small: what are the characteristics of cities that give rise to “massive” amounts of “small-scale” innovation?

Photo of Jane Jacobs by Michèl Champagnehttp://www.mediamatic.net/104796/en/jane-jacobs-ideas-that-matter

Photo of Christopher Alexander by Eugene Kimhttp://www.flickr.com/photos/eekim/5686194142/

1. Broadband connectivity

2. Cloud computing3. Mobile and

smartphones4. Social media5. The touchscreen6. Open source software7. Intelligent hardware

8. Open APIs9. Open data10. Open standards11. Mundane interfaces12. Identity stores13. Maps and

geolocation14. Social enterprise

15. Alternative currencies16. The “sharing economy”17. Information partnerships18. Regeneration &

incubation19. Sustainable business20. Intelligent infrastructure21. Local energy22. Insight without certainty

Smarter City Design Patterns:http://theurbantechnologist.com/design-patterns/http://theurbantechnologist.com/2014/07/01/12-simple-technologies-for-cities-that-are-smart-open-and-fair/

http://asmarterplanet.com/blog/2013/05/inspiring-social-sustainability-one-village-at-a-time.html

http://www.syngentafoundation.org/index.cfm?pageID=562

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sponsored/sport/rugby-trytracker/10630406/ibm-big-data-analytics-dublin.html

Smarter cities “as if people mattered”

Citizen engagement & social value

Smart Hack Birmingham 2012

Coders taking part in “Smart Hack” at Birmingham Science Park Aston in 2012 by Sebastian Lenton: https://twitter.com/sebastianlenton

Birmingham Smart City Alliancehttp://birminghamsmartcityalliance.wordpress.com/

http://harbornefoodschool.co.uk/

Translational thinking

Photo by lecercle of a girl in Mumbai doing her

homework on whatever flat surface she could find:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/lecercle/439745670/ Ma

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all A US Department of Agriculture inspector examines a shipment

of imported frozen meat in New Orleans in 2013. Photo by Anson

Eaglin: https://www.flickr.com/photos/usdagov/11325445264

Little / big

Top-down / bottom-up

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Thankyou

Dr Rick Robinson FBCS CITP FRSA AoU, IT Director, Smart Data and Technology

rick.robinson@amey.co.uk http://theurbantechnologist.com @dr_rick