Urban Systems Meeting

1. Urban Systems Meeting Imperial College London 2013

2. Agenda Day 1, Sept 10 AMbv

3. Agenda Day 1, Sept 10 PM

4. Agenda Day 2, Sept 11 AM

5. Defining the Themes • For each of the themes - lets develop a compact explanation • Adaptive City • Personalised City • Supportive City • Quality of Life • In a short paragraph, what do we mean by each of the themes ? • For each theme how do we measure them, what data do they need ?

6. Adaptive City • Integrates a variety of professions • City that responds to internal and external changes with minimal resource requirements while maintaining a required functionality • City denizens need minimal stress to meet their needs to live in a city • City denizens understand and play their role as part of the city (they provide input and response) • Balances the needs of the individual and the many

7. Mayor and flow therefrom • CMM Maturity model • Resilience – is adaptivity • Flexibility and diversity, redundancy and modularity, resourcefulness, situational awareness, capacity to learn • Many organisaitons making decisions • Plurality of objectives • What are city objectives ? How are they measured • Adaptive city offers affordance to actors to contribute • Need elected body with a mandate – how to flow objectives to influence city – define ROI of investments

8. Adaptive city drives change promotes social attraction, promotes governance • Decisions made and a hierarchy exists. Government enables health promotion as part of agenda • Successful / Adaptive city has a vision and economic resilience which is linked to the vision • London as example • People centered view – city where smart people exist, adaptive city has adaptive denizens • Centralisation does not help with adaptability

9. Personalised City

10. Personalised City • How denizens interact with the city and their modes of interactions • Issues of personal data and its ownership • Evolution of engagement of individuals with cities (data, experience etc) • Appears to individual that the city is designed around them • Capacity/affordance from the city to engage in different ways • Harmony between city members • City as org or people ? • City is concentration of human interaction • Lisbon experiment – Rick • City with aspirations – is often adaptive • Portland, Boston, Sidney, Amsterdam • Visionary Plans with aspirations, structures who interact with each other and private sector well • Developed visions and structure personally • Barcelona District 21 • Hamburg artist rents • Charleston SC • Middle East Qatar, Masdar Songdo (did not work) • East Brum

11. Supportive City • Supports social engagement mechanisms with transparent governance processes • Governance associated with planning and that associated with operations • Gaming – Bogota and clowns Penalosa. Mockus • Water consumption issues, cycling path, planned develpoment • Jaime lerner Curitiba • Connecting the disconnected • But cities are not democracies

12. Quality of Life • Mechanism to determine what people care about based on Maslow’s pyramid • Dimension by which people’s attitude affects the view of the pyramid (age, culture etc) • Urban contexts and how they support quality of life • Availability and quality of resources,economic wealth etc patents etc • Framework of our concerns and needs • Lets see what’s already been done – Liveable Cities Project • Travel and commuting

13. Quality of Life • Use of Maslow’s pyramid was a good map to a larger entity • Whatever reduces stress improves the QoL • Independent of city or rural area • Should we expect citizens to actively engage or should the city adapt