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Building Community

Catalysing New Ideas

Engaging and Educating

Cabot InstituteLiving with Environmental Uncertainty

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Smart Cities =

Sustainable and Resilient Cities

(Why smart cities are necessary to make cities sustainable and resilient)

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Future cities and

communities

Water Security

Hazards

Low Carbon

Energy

Climate and Environmental

Change

Food

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Smart Cities = Sustainable and Resilient Cities

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Smart Cities = Sustainable and Resilient Cities

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Smart Cities = Sustainable and Resilient Cities

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Smart Cities = Sustainable and Resilient Cities

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Smart Cities = Sustainable and Resilient Cities

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Community Partnerships

Bristol Is Open Smart Metering

Smart Cities = Sustainable and Resilient Cities

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Bristol is one of only three UK Cities chosen by

the Rockefeller Foundation

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The Foundation requires resiliency to two major

urban challenges:

Those that are chronic

But also shocks

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Risk is becoming increasingly complex

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Global Warming:

Trimming the tails but uncertainty

(irreducible?) remains

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Uncertainty in warming propagates into

many other factors

Does not consider significant melting of Antarctic or Greenland Ice Sheets

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Deeper Uncertainty:Change in annual rainfall by 2100

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And this deep complexity and associated uncertainty is true for

many, many systems

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New forms of Systems Resilience that encompass this profound

uncertainty and complexity

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Floods

We develop dynamic flood models at building-resolving scales with grids of up to 100M cells and use these to predict inundation patterns

Example: 4 hour rainfall event (based on October 2011 storm) for Dublin, Ireland, modelled at 5 m resolution over a LIDAR grid

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Floods

OLD SCHOOL: Model the city at high resolution and see where the weaknesses and break points are

NEW SCHOOL: • High Resolution• Can interact with real time

sensor data• Can presumably feed data into

the City Operating System• Allows us to build fluid resilience

right into our system

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Air Pollution

Daily Mail

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Air Pollution

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Air Pollution

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Healthy Cities

From Cycling and Netwalking to the Home

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Infrastructure Resiliency

Smart Cities

GURP

BIO

Graduate School

Education

Human Geography

Systems Centre

Centre for Urban and Public Policy

Research

Economics

CommunityLaw

The city?

Business?

Communities?

Individuals?

Progressing these projects:Who will use Bristol is Open – and how?

Or how open is open?