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Global City Systems & ICT

Global City Systems & ICT. Developing GSS for Cities Evolution of intra-city systems Evolution of inter-city systems

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Global City Systems & ICT

Page 2: Global City Systems & ICT. Developing GSS for Cities Evolution of intra-city systems Evolution of inter-city systems

Global City Systems & ICT

• Developing GSS for Cities

• Evolution of intra-city systems

• Evolution of inter-city systems

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Developing GSS for Cities• Improving inter-disciplinary communication

– Technologist / ICT / Social Scientist gaps• Barriers

– Emphasis on quantitative modeling – consider unstructured information analysis as bridge

– Emphasis on uniqueness – consider development of formal hierarchies of abstraction and scales

• Formal development of “urban science”– Development of next generation of planners administrators

• Shaping the futures of specific cities through collaborative narrative development

• Roles of ICT– Identifying quantitative and qualitative patterns– Understanding how cities work and how people live in cities– Understanding the futures of cities

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Evolution of intra-city systems• Need for adaptability of cities in era of rapid change – lack of adaptability in traditional

design/planning methods• Transition from 19th Century industrial models of service & infrastructure management

to 21st Century decentralised management• Emergence of ICT as the fifth utility

– Open/closed, centralised/distributed• Making the invisible visible

– Knowledge aggregation and dissemination– Decentralised decision-making– Improving perceived Quality of Life

• Changing connectedness– Impacts of high-speed transportation and virtualization/dematerialisation on intra-city and

inter-city structures/systems– Maslow’s hierarchy / low -> Local connectedness, physical resources & infrastructure

dependencies– Maslow’s hierarchy / high –> Global connectedness, virtual resources & ICT dependencies

• Roles of ICT– New flexibilities, new dependencies– Governance of information– Impacts on democracy

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Evolution of inter-city systems• National and global coupling among cities

– Decay of 19th Century “feeder network” model with hierachy of economic roles– End-point of current urbanisation – a small number of mega-cities?

• Forces driving urbanisation– Resource efficiency, economic opportunity, innovation– Abandonment of countryside– Specialised roles in global ecosystems

• Countervailing forces– Pollution– Need for diversity in skills and economies– Alternatives to GDP as key metric – Genuine Progress Indicator (M Porter), Better Life Index

(OECD)• Questions

– Can failing cities be brought back to life?– Minimal threshold of size for social & economic survival?– Is there a maximum or optimal size for a city?

• Role of ICT– Globalised ecosystems– Dematerialisation of work– Macro-economic modeling, policy decisions