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Smart [ er ] Living | Environment | Infrastructure: Low-Tech or No-Tech Solutions

Smart [ er ] Living | Environment | Infrastructure: Low-Tech or No-Tech Solutions. Victor Negrete GSD Smart Cities October 8, 2012. Smart Low -Tech or No -Tech Solutions [?]. Smart Cities and Smart City solutions are not a new phenomenon

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Smart [ er ] Living | Environment | Infrastructure: Low-Tech or No-Tech Solutions

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  1. Smart[er] Living| Environment | Infrastructure: Low-Tech or No-Tech Solutions Victor Negrete GSD Smart Cities October 8, 2012

  2. Smart Low-Tech or No-Tech Solutions [?] • Smart Cities and Smart City solutions are not a new phenomenon • Smart Cities and Smart City solutions are not necessarily high-tech • Smart Cities and Smart City solutions empower individual citizens to participate in shaping the urban environment – a kind of DIY Urbanism

  3. Subthemes and Case Studies

  4. [1]

  5. [1] Bus Rapid Transit Bogota, Colombia

  6. [Smart]is Not New • BRT began in Curitiba, Brazil in 1974 • Bogota, Colombia opened its system (Transmilenio) in 2000 • The Transmilenio is considered to be among the best/most complete examples of BRT in the world • [Smart Design] – a low tech solution

  7. [Smart]is Not New Buses travel on dedicated lanes.

  8. [Smart]is Not New Bus Platform is level with bus.

  9. [Smart]is Not New Riders pay before entering the station.

  10. [Smart]is Not New BRT is referred to as “surface subway.” But it costs a fraction of traditional subway infrastructure.

  11. [2]

  12. [2] Grassroots Mapping Public Laboratory

  13. [Smart]is Not Always High-Tech • Grassroots Mapping utilizes digital cameras and open-source technology to stitch together aerial imagery • A balloon map has 100 times higher resolution than those produced by Google • Grassroots Mapping empowers communities • [Accessible technology] – a smart solution

  14. [Smart]is Not Always High-Tech A DIY Mapping Kit

  15. [Smart]is Not Always High-Tech MapKnitter allows you to “stitch” images into a web-viewable map.

  16. [Smart]is Not Always High-Tech Balloon mapping has been used to document the Gulf oil spill.

  17. [Smart]is Not Always High-Tech Balloon mapping was also used to document Occupy protests.

  18. [Smart]is Not Always High-Tech Is it smart to rely on Apple and Google to map our cities?

  19. [3]

  20. [3] PARK(ing) Rebar

  21. [Smart]is DIY • [Tactical Urbanism] – • “The goal is not to simply do a cool project that will get cleaned up by the city or thrown away, but to make something – even something temporary – that will change how a place works and is perceived. And once that change has been made, to figure out how it can be made again or made permanent.” • - Nate Berg • Writer, The Atlantic Cities

  22. [Smart]is DIY • The original Park(ing) installation occurred on November 16, 2005 in San Francisco, CA • Each year on Park(ing) Day, people all over the reclaim metered parking spaces as places for people • In 2010, the City of San Francisco made Park(ing) an official place-making strategy when it introduced its Pavement to Parks program

  23. [Smart]is DIY The first Park(ing) installation.

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