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Why do Smart Cities need standards?
Rick Robinson, Executive Architect, Smarter Cities, IBM
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Smarter city systems will need to interoperate seamlessly
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Smarter cities will need reliable and resilient physical and technology infrastructures, working together
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Standards help us to get what we really want
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What sort of Smart City do we want?
• Efficient, intelligent transportation and utility infrastructure?
• Well planned, operated and coordinated services?
• A high degree of social mobility and a low degree of inequality?
• A happy, safe and vibrant community?
• Economic growth and job creation?
• Reduced carbon footprint?
• Intelligent and proactive city services that harness advanced technology?
• Empowered digital citizens?
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William Robinson Leigh’s 1908 painting “Visionary City” envisaged future cities constructed from mile-long buildings of hundreds of stories
connected by gas-lit skyways for trams, pedestrians and horse-drawn carriages. A century later we’ve realised that developments in transport
and power technology have eclipsed Leigh’s vision, but do we still want to live in cities constructed from buildings on this scale?
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How will Smart Cities be built?
“Private investment shapes cities, but social ideas (and laws) shape private investment.
First comes the image of what we want, then the machinery is adapted to turn out that image.
The financial machinery has been adjusted to create anti-city images because, and only because, we as a society thought this would be good for us.
If and when we think that lively, diversified city, capable of continual, close-grained improvement and change, is desirable, then we will adjust the financial machinery to get that.”
Jane Jacobs, “The Death and Life of Great American Cities”, 1961
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(“Lives on the Line” by James Cheshire at UCL’s Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis, showing the variation in life
expectancy and correlation to child poverty in London. From Cheshire, J. 2012. Lives on the Line: Mapping Life
Expectancy Along the London Tube Network. Environment and Planning A. 44 (7). Doi: 10.1068/a45341)
Smarter city systems should deliver better outcomes as well as better operations
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Smarter cities need an open infrastructure to support scalable, localised innovation
Photo of a pickup in Cambodia by Hendrik Terbek http://www.flickr.com/photos/terbeck/
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Photo of pedestrian roundabout in Shanghai, China, by Chris UK
http://www.flickr.com/photos/_chrisuk/7580861928/
Photo of Masshouse Circus, Birmingham, before its redevelopment, by Birmingham City Council
http://www.birmingham.gov.uk/cs/Satellite?c=Page&childpagename=Planning-Management%2FPageLayout&cid=1223092740947&pagename=BCC%2FCommon%2FWrapper%2FWrapper
Thankyou
Rick Robinson, Executive Architect, Smarter Cities, IBM
[email protected] twitter.com/dr_rick theurbantechnologist.com
