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Explore the challenges and opportunities in cities today focusing on innovation, digitalization, governance, resiliency, and inequality. Analyzing the impact of sharing economy, climate resilience, and metropolitan governance on shaping the urban landscape towards a sustainable future. Discover the potential of urban metabolism and efficient energy flows in creating resilient cities through integrated planning strategies.
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Gabriel Lanfranchi Cities Program Director A New EconomyfortheCity. Makinga StakeontheFuture
INNOVATION GOVERNANCE DIGITALIZATION CHALLENGES INEQUALITY RESILIENCE
INEQUALITY 75% of the world cities have high leveles of inequality since the last 2 decades. (ONU-Habitat) THE MAIN CHALLENGES OF THE CITIES
RESILIENCY 70.000 Deaths during the past 5 years as the result of a media of 300 natural disasters per year (CRED-2017) www.lanacion.com.ar THE MAIN CHALLENGES OF THE CITIES
DIGITALIZATION 90% Of the available world data was produced during the last 4 years. (IBM – 2015) THE MAIN CHALLENGES OF THE CITIES
METROPOLITAN GOVERNANCE 21 countries 64 metropolitan areas 954 municipalities 206.542.149 inhabitant 33,35% total population Approach Paper on Metropolitan Governance in LAC. BID - CIPPEC According to OCDE, we are in the Metropolitan Century. In LATAM and the Caribbean, there are 64 metropolitan areas with more tan 1 million inhabitants THE MAIN CHALLENGES OF THE CITIES
INNOVATION GOVERNANCE DIGITALIZATION CHALLENGES INEQUALITY RESILIENCE
Sharing economy Models of Production, consumption or financing that are based on exchanges between peers, or from peers to professionals and through digital platforms that do not provide the underlying service. ABUNDANCE SHORTAGE ACCESS EXCLUSIVE PROPERTY SHARE BUY INDIVIDUAL EMPOWERMENT INDUSTRIAL EMPOWERMENT PUT IN VALUE THE EXISTING RESOURCES
Challenges of SharingEconomy Limit the adaptation capacity Fragmentationof Labourforce ConsumerProtection Competitiondefense Regulation and legal framework Source: Confilegal
Opportunities of SharingEconomy Tools to reduce inequality Build social trust Tacklechallengesfromtherapid pace of urbanization Opportunity to formalize Economic potencial As a Source of entrepreneurship
INNOVATION GOVERNANCE DIGITALIZATION CHALLENGES INEQUALITY RESILIENCE
ClimateResilience GHG emissions are strongly linked to materials, energy use in a city, and the waste that it generates. Buildings Transport Energy Urbanization is an opportunity: to build climate resilience in order to face the negative impacts that climate change poses to cities. FROM PLANNING TO “PLANIFICACTION”
InfrastructureInvestment • To mitigate climate change and to adapt to its risks, planned investment must be steered towards lower-carbon, climate-resilient options. GREEN WHITE GRAY BLUE ENVIRONMENTAL SERVICES KNOWLEDGE / INNOVATION PRODUCTIVITY HEALTH / RESILIENCY ** Metro LabInititative @ MIT COMPLEX SYSTEM
T20 Recommendations URBAN METABOLISM Integrate the concept of urban metabolism into adaptation strategies TO: FROM: Efficient and SustainableEnergyFlow Non-RenewableEnergyFlow Understanding of urban metabolism allows for a rethinking of place-making through flows of resources in and out.
T20 Recommendations METROPOLITAN GOVERNANCE Develop metropolitan governance mechanisms to manage resilience 85% of urban agglomerations above 100,000 inhabitants are already metropolitan. (UN-Habitat 2016) In order to be responsive to global threats such as climate change it requires changing the rules of the game by rethinking the institutional arrangements