Smart Cities Smart Citizens Smart Planners

Michael Batty

Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis CASA-UCL

m.batty@ucl.ac.uk @jmichaelbatty

Future City Summit

October 23rd 2014

Let me begin by showing you how we can see London as a

pumping heart with two massive spikes of energy during the day

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This has only become possible quite recently due to new ‘big’

data from the ‘smart city’

We now have quite simple models that explain how cities grow as the

product of millions of individual decisions built from the bottom up.

Cities are thus ‘emergent

phenomena’, And what difference then will new technologies make to

these patterns

Most of these contemporary technologies let us communicate

differently and these generate different network patterns

And ‘smart cities’ are all about new technologies - shifting information rather than energy, and changing

our behaviours in the process

In the future, smart cities are really about how we use these

technologies to advantage; how we connect up better

Where we locate and how we build things in the future will depend on

these. The big question is ‘Will all this alter the shape of the city’

So what cities will look like, how they will function, and how we will

visualise them as networks and locations will change in the future.

We do not know how.

There are obvious changes in inequalities. Social media & open

data are essential in understanding.

And for planners these new technologies are not just changing

the city, they are letting us represent, simulate and predict the

future in more effective ways

Through 3D- models, augmented reality, urban simulations, and so on

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By the end of this century we will all be living in cities of one form or another and our behaviour is going to be much changed by

new technologies ….

I think London will still grow and evolve physically and

functionally in the same manner we have shown but ……

Thank You

Michael Batty Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis

CASA-UCL

www.complexcity.info www.spatialcomplexity.info

m.batty@ucl.ac.uk @jmichaelbatty