Smart Cities: The Players, the Potential and the Role of Planning Practice

Karen Quinn Fung Secretary-Treasurer, APA Technology Division karen@countablyinfinite.ca 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: karen@counti8.ca Web: countablyinfinite.ca; vancouverpublicspace.ca Task Force: http://planning.org/divisions/ transportation | sustainable | tech |

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