What is The Future for Cities?
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062R_Urban Eutopia vs smart city (research summary)
28 juni 2022 · 9 min
Summary of the article titled Urban Eutopia vs smart city from 2015 by Marina Montuori, published in the Festival Architettura Magazine. Lees meer
Since we are investigating the future of cities, I thought it would be interesting to see specific design actions based on the use of reversible, low-tech and low-impact building systems of urban regeneration. This article introduces integrated procedures to focus on adaptive maintenance to update architectural objects in order to restore high typological and performance standard.
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Abstract: Urban regeneration should focus on a methodological and interdisciplinary approach, entrenched in the territories. Therefore, this paper promotes specific design actions, based on the use of reversible, low tech and low impact building systems. The “integrate” procedures focus on an “adaptive maintenance” (with character: “preventive” and “corrective”) able to “update” the architectural objects in order to restore high typological and performance standard, qualitatively increased.
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061R_Conceptualising smart city with dimensions of technology, people and institutions (research summary)
21 juni 2022 · 12 min
Summary of the article titled Conceptualising smart city with dimensions of technology, people and institutions from 2011 by Taewoo Nam and Theresa Prado, published at the 12th Annual International Conference on Digital Government Research. Lees meer
Since we are investigating the future of cities, I thought it would be interesting to see their collected core factors for establishing a smart city based on contemporary examples. This article offers strategic principles aligning to the three main dimensions of smart cities: integration of infrastructures and technology-mediated services, social learning for strengthening human infrastructure, and governance for institutional improvement and citizen engagement.
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Abstract: This conceptual paper discusses how we can consider a particular city as a smart one, drawing on recent practices to make cities smart. A set of the common multidimensional components underlying the smart city concept and the core factors for a successful smart city initiative is identified by exploring current working definitions of smart city and a diversity of various conceptual relatives similar to smart city. The paper offers strategic principles aligning to the three main dimensions (technology, people, and institutions) of smart city: integration of infrastructures and technology-mediated services, social learning for strengthening human infrastructure, and governance for institutional improvement and citizen engagement.
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060I_Gala Camacho Ferrari, data scientist and director at Diagonal Works
16 juni 2022 · 54 min
Interview with Gala Camacho Ferrari, data scientist and director at Diagonal Works. We talk about her vision for the future of cities, steward ownership, responsible technologies, collaboration, and many more. Lees meer
Gala is a mathematician and programmer, with a background in education, optimisation and all-things data. She is a Data Scientist and Director at Diagonal, where she is responsible for data science and built-environment analytics. Gala's experience is in strategic technical leadership, the design and implementation of algorithms and models within the urban planning and civil infrastructure space, and mathematical optimisation. Gala is passionate about using analytics to explore and break down urban and social inequalities.
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Gala Camacho Ferrari on LinkedIn;
@GalaCF as Gala Camacho on Twitter;
Gala Camacho Ferrari website;
Diagonal Works website;
@diagonalworks as Diagonal Works on Twitter;
Design Justice, the book Gala mentioned in the interview;
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059R_Smart city and horizon ... beyond (every) "hypocrisy" (research summary)
14 juni 2022 · 10 min
Summary of the article titled Smart city and horizon – beyond every hypocrisy from 2015 by Paola Scala, published in the Festival Architettura Magazine. Lees meer
Since we are investigating the future of cities, I thought it would be interesting to see real opportunities represented by smart city as the theme of architectural research more aware of its role and more accepting its contemporary challenges. This article advocates for research that is not seduced by fashion slogans and does not escape into universal certainties and abstract utopias.
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Abstract: Starting with a Vittorio Gregotti interview titled “the green hypocrisy of star-architects”, this paper focuses on real opportunities represented by “Smart city” as the theme of an architectural research more aware of its own role but also more capable of accepting contemporary challenges. Research that is not seduced by fashion slogans and does not escape into universal certainties and abstract utopias.
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058R_An adaptive learning process for developing and applying sustainability indicators with local communities (research summary)
7 juni 2022 · 12 min
Summary of the article titled An adaptive learning process for developing and applying sustainability indicators with local communities from 2005 by Mark Reed, Evan Fraser, and Andrew J. Dougill, published in the Ecological Economics journal by Science Direct. Lees meer
Since we are investigating the future of cities, I thought it would be interesting to see an investigation into sustainability measurements and indicators from top-down and bottom-up perspectives. This article proposes a process combining best practices of the different paradigms as a holistic approach for measuring progress towards sustainable development.
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Abstract: Sustainability indicators based on local data provide a practical method to monitor progress towards sustainable development. However, since there are many conflicting frameworks proposed to develop indicators, it is unclear how best to collect these data. The purpose of this paper is to analyse the literature on developing and applying sustainability indicators at local scales to develop a methodological framework that summarises best practice. First, two ideological paradigms are outlined: one that is expert-led and top–down, and one that is community-based and bottom–up. Second, the paper assesses the methodological steps proposed in each paradigm to identify, select and measure indicators. Finally, the paper concludes by proposing a learning process that integrates best practice for stakeholder-led local sustainability assessments. By integrating approaches from different paradigms, the proposed process offers a holistic approach for measuring progress towards sustainable development. It emphasizes the importance of participatory approaches setting the context for sustainability assessment at local scales, but stresses the role of expert-led methods in indicator evaluation and dissemination. Research findings from around the world are used to show how the proposed process can be used to develop q…
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057I_Amélie Uhrig, a climate change and sustainability advisor and manager
2 juni 2022 · 44 min
Interview with Amélie Uhrig, a climate change and sustainability advisor and manager. We talk about her vision for the future of cities, sustainability, city as an organism, differences among the names for climate change, and many more. Lees meer
Amélie Uhrig is a Manager at Point Advisory, a sustainability consultancy headquartered in Melbourne. She has over five years of experience in the climate change and broader sustainability sector and specialises on nature-based solutions for climate mitigation, carbon markets and carbon accounting. Prior to joining Point Advisory, she worked as consultant in development cooperation in Indonesia, where she was working on a project on climate and environmental awareness. As part of her role, she travelled to high schools and educational institutions facilitating workshops aimed at improving climate literacy and supporting climate action at school. Amélie holds a Master in Environmental Sciences, focusing on climate policies and politics as well as the role of forests in climate mitigation. As part of her studies, she conducted a qualitative social research project on community-based forest management and REDD+ in Indonesia. She also holds a Bachelor in Geography and Ethnology with a special focus on climate change. Amélie is also a founding member and co-creator at Talking in This Climate, a podcast dedicated to helping listeners to become more mindful about how we communicate climate and environmental issues.
You can find out more about Amélie through these links:
Amélie Uhrig on LinkedIn;
Amélie Uhrig at Point Advisory consultancy;
Point Advisory consultancy website;
Talking in This Climate podcast on Apple Podcasts;
Talking in This Climate podcast on Spotify;
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056R_A place-based model for understanding community resilience to natural disasters (research summary)
31 mei 2022 · 12 min
Summary of the article titled A place-based model for understanding community resilience to natural disasters from 2008 by Susan Cutter, Lindsey Barnes, Melissa Berry, Christopher Burton, Elijah Evans, Eric Tate, and Jennifer Webb, published in the Global Environmental Change journal. Lees meer
Since we are investigating the future of cities, I thought it would be interesting to see a framework for disaster resilience of place model. This article investigates and proposes a comparative assessment for disaster resilience at the local or community level with a set of variables for easier implementation.
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Abstract: There is considerable research interest on the meaning and measurement of resilience from a variety of research perspectives including those from the hazards/disasters and global change communities. The identification of standards and metrics for measuring disaster resilience is one of the challenges faced by local, state, and federal agencies, especially in the United States. This paper provides a new framework, the disaster resilience of place (DROP) model, designed to improve comparative assessments of disaster resilience at the local or community level. A candidate set of variables for implementing the model are also presented as a first step towards its implementation.
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055R_Smartness that matters: Towards a comprehensive and human-centred characterisation of smart cities (research summary)
24 mei 2022 · 11 min
Summary of the article titled Smartness that matters: Towards a comprehensive and human-centred characterisation of smart cities from 2016 by Alexander Prado Lara, Eduardo Moreira Da Costa, Thiago Zilinscki Furlani, and Tan Yigitcanlar, published in the Journal of Open Innovation: Technology, Market and Complexity. Lees meer
Since we are investigating the future of cities, I thought it would be interesting to see a collection of smart city definitions and their deficiencies. This article investigates previous smart city definitions and proposes a new, human-centred characterisation for them.
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Abstract: The term ‘smart cities’ is a widely used, but at the same time a highly fuzzy concept. The fuzziness hinders our understanding on the benefits of its adoption, and explains the existence of many relevant activities with fragmented or distorted views of what a truly smart city is. The aim of this paper is to undertake a comprehensive review of how smart cities are perceived in the literature and in the light of the findings propose a clearer definition. Overview of the key terms, concepts and definitions associated to smart cities, reported in this paper, demonstrates that the definitions found in the academic literature have limited scope, and are overly focused on strategic drivers and specific actions, instead of making explicitly the connection between the concept of smart cities and the creation of environments that promote happiness and wellbeing of their residents—which should be the main function of a city. Following the thorough review on the smart cities literature, the paper proposes a comprehensive, human-centred, and context-free definition for smart cities. This definition brings an endogenous view on smart cities in which the central element is the direct participation of local actors and stakeholders in the process of thinking, defining, planning, and executing social, technological and urban transformations in citie…
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054I_Dr Rolland Vida, the Head of High Speed Networks Laboratory
19 mei 2022 · 36 min
Interview with Dr Rolland Vida, the Head of High Speed Networks Laboratory. We talk about his vision for the future of cities, second and third rate effects of smaller urban changes, the future of education, and many more. Lees meer
Dr. Rolland Vida graduated in Computer Science at Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj, Romania, where he also obtained a BSc degree in European Studies. He obtained his PhD in Computer Networks at Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France, in 2003. He is currently an Associate Professor at Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Department of Telecommunications and Media Informatics, and Head of HSN Lab, a research laboratory that is a strategic partner of Ericsson for 30 years. In the last 15 years Rolland Vida had leading roles in IEEE formerly known as the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, which is the world’s largest technical professional organisation, with more than 400.000 members worldwide. Rolland served in both the IEEE Sensors Council, IEEE Communications Society and IEEE Smart Cities Initiative, and was involved in different roles, in organizing more than 40 international scientific conferences. His research areas are wireless sensor networks, sensor communications, Internet of Things, vehicular communications and Smart Cities of course. He is the Head of the Smart Cities MSc Specialisation at the university in Budapest.
You can find out more about Rolland through these links:
Dr Rolland Vida on LinkedIn;
High Speed Networks Laboratory website;
IEEE website;
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053R_Smart Telki – Answering Citizen Demand in the Outskirts of Budapest (research summary)
17 mei 2022 · 10 min
Summary of the article titled Smart Telki – Answering citizen demand in the outskirts of Budapest from 2020 by Bence Majoros, Marcell Molnár, Tamás Sajti, and Rolland Vida, presented at the 2020 IEEE International Smart Cities Conference. Lees meer
I will interview Rolland Vida in the next episode, number 054I, and this is a great preparation for that interview.
Plus, since we are investigating the future of cities, I thought it would be interesting to see how the global solutions can work in different settings. This article investigates some specific smart city developments applied to Telki, a small municipality in the outskirts of Budapest, Hungary, trying to answer some particular citizen demands.
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Abstract: In the last few years, more and more smart city applications and services were being deployed by municipalities all over the world. Best practices and lessons learned by other cities are certainly important, but each city has its own problems, constraints, budget limitations, but also specific user demands. In this paper we present some specific smart city developments in Telki, a small municipality in the outskirts of Budapest, Hungary, developments that tried to answer specific citizen demands while making use of the already deployed infrastructure (especially surveillance cameras), and avoiding further costly investments.
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052R_Introduction: Innovation and identity in next-generation smart cities (research summary)
10 mei 2022 · 12 min
Summary of the article titled Introduction: Innovation and identity in next-generation smart cities from 2018 by Hoon Han and Scott Hawken, published in City, Culture and Society journal. Lees meer
Since we are investigating the future of cities, I thought it would be interesting to see why it is important to critically consider urban identity and culture as central to the smart city. This article challenges smart city concepts from the urban identity, quality and value at a range of scales and geographic contexts point of view.
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Abstract: Cultural nuance, human behaviour and social identity require greater attention within the emerging smart city phenomenon. This special issue critically considers identity and urban culture as central to the smart city challenge. Current discourse on smart cities is obsessed with technological capability and development. Global rankings reduce cities to a one-dimensional business model and series of metrics. If the term ‘smart city’ is to have any enduring value, technology must be used to develop a city's unique cultural identity and quality of life for the future. The editorial reviews emerging research on the cultural dimensions of urban innovation and smart cities and places the six special issue papers within a theoretical context. Each paper critiques smart city theories in relation to the practical challenge of enhancing urban identity, quality and value at a range of scales and geographic contexts. Three main themes are used to frame the debate on smart cities and urban innovation: 1) local development histories, 2) face-to-face relationships and 3) local community scales. Each of these themes is lacking in current smart city approaches and requires innovative approaches to integrate into the smart city of tomorrow.
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051I_Laura Summers, design engineer
5 mei 2022 · 45 min
Interview with Laura Summers, design engineer. We will talk about her vision for the future of cities, urban revitalisation, the fear-FOMO pendulum, and many more. Lees meer
Laura is a multi-disciplinary designer researching technology ethics and building tools to promote fair machine learning. She's the founder of Debias AI and is the human behind Ethics Litmus Tests, fairXiv, the Melbourne Fair ML reading group. Most recently she released the open-source library "Sweet Summer Child Score", a risk assessment tool for automation and machine learning. Laura is passionate about feminism, digital rights and designing for privacy. She speaks, writes and runs workshops at the intersection of design and technology.
You can find out more about Laura through these links:
Laura Summers on LinkedIn;
@summerscope as Laura Summers on Twitter;
Debias AI website;
Ethics Litmus Test website;
fairXiv website;
Fair ML Reading Group website
Sweet Summer Child Score open-source library on GitHub;
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050R_Towards sustainable urban communities (research summary)
3 mei 2022 · 10 min
Summary of the article titled Towards sustainable urban communities from 2012 by Appu Haapio published in the Environmental Impact Assessment Review journal. Lees meer
Since we are investigating the future of cities, I thought it would be interesting to see comparison of the internationally well-known sustainability assessment tools, BREEAM Communities, CASBEE for Urban Development, and LEED for Neighbourhood Development. This article investigates and compares these assessment tools with regards to sustainability in urban development and how the decision-makers could use these tools the best.
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Abstract: Requirements for the assessment tools of buildings have increased, assessing of building components or separate buildings is not enough. Neighbourhoods, built environment, public transportations, and services, should be considered simultaneously. Number of population living in urban areas is high and increasing rapidly. Urbanisation is a major concern due to its detrimental effects on the environment. The aim of this study is to clarify the field of assessment tools for urban communities by analysing the current situation. The focus is on internationally well known assessment tools; BREEAM Communities, CASBEE for Urban Development and LEED for Neigborhood Development. The interest towards certification systems is increasing amongst the authorities, and especially amongst the global investors and property developers. Achieved certifications are expected to bring measureable publicity for the developers. The assessment of urban areas enables the comparison of municipalities and urban areas, and notably supports decision making processes. Authorities, city planners, and designers would benefit most from the use of the tools during the decision making process.
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049R_A multiple-attribute decision making-based approach for smart city rankings design (research summary)
26 april 2022 · 13 min
Summary of the article titled A multiple-attribute decision making-based approach for smart city rankings design from 2018 by Soledad Escolar, Félix Villanueva, Maria Santofimia, David Villa, Xavier del Toro, and Juan Carlos López published in the Technological Forecasting & Social Change journal. Lees meer
Since we are investigating the future of cities, I thought it would be interesting to see city-comparisons regarding smart cities. This article investigates and compares smart city rankings and suggests new approaches, using the example of New York, Seoul and Santander, to establish the proper evaluation of urban smartness.
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Abstract: Rankings are a valuable element for city-comparison purposes since results withdrawn from these comparisons can, eventually, support the evaluation of strategic decisions taken by cities. Smart city rankings are not an exception and, as they draw more attention, the number of them exponentially increases. This paper evaluates the appropriateness of existing smart city rankings for quantifying the materialization degree of the smart city concept. The analysis reveals that current rankings generally overlook indicators of the Information and Communication Technologies dimension. To bridge this gap, this work proposes a methodology based on Multiple-Attribute Decision Making that uses technological criteria for designing smart city rankings. The proposed methodology is evaluated against the cities of New York, Seoul, and Santander. Imbalances between results provided by the studied rankings and our evaluation are detected, which suggests the need for a new insight into more suitable and precise evaluation of the smartness degree of cities.
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048I_Professor Hussein Dia, the Chair of Civil Engineering at Swinburne University of Technology
21 april 2022 · 44 min
Interview with Professor Hussein Dia, the Chair of Civil Engineering at Swinburne University of Technology. We will talk about his vision for the future of cities, future urban mobility, city states, and many more. Lees meer
Hussein Dia is a professor of Future Urban Mobility in the School of Engineering at Swinburne University of Technology, currently serving as the Chair of the Department of Civil and Construction Engineering and the Program Leader of the Smart Cities Research Institute's Future Urban Mobility research program at Swinburne. He works alongside highly dedicated academic teams and internal & external stakeholders while facilitating interdisciplinary research and actively engaging with external organisations to identify issues and needs that the Institute can address through its thematic research programs. Hussein is a Chartered Professional Engineer, Fellow of the American Society of Civil Engineers, Fellow of Engineers Australia, and Fellow of the Institute of Transportation Engineers. His research interests are in the convergence of technology, infrastructure and human elements in urban environments. Hussein’s current work is focused on disruptive mobility and harnessing digital innovations to unlock potential opportunities for low carbon mobility. His current research includes investigations of how autonomous vehicles, Blockchain, Internet of Things and the sharing economy are set to transform mobility in the world's cities.
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Hussein Dia on LinkedIn,
@HusseinDia as Hussein Dia on Twitter,
Hussein Dia at Swinburne University of Technology,
Future Urban Mobility led by Hussein Dia at the Smart Cities Research Institute,
Hussein Dia’s Masterclass on Future Urban Mobility,
Hussein Dia on the Conversation,
Hussein Dia on YouTube,
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047R_Coronavirus recovery: public transport is key to avoid repeating old and unsustainable mistakes (article summary)
19 april 2022 · 8 min
Summary of the article titled Coronavirus recovery: public transport is key to avoid repeating old and unsustainable mistakes from 2020 by Hussein Dia published on The Conversation. Lees meer
I will interview Hussein Dia in the next episode, number 048R, and this is a great preparation for that interview. Plus, since we are investigating the future of cities, I thought it would be interesting to see how the urban mobility is affected by the pandemic and how to make urban mobility better in the future after the pandemic. This article investigates sustainable shifts currently observable in cities with working from home and staying local, and how transport will be a particular challenge towards more sustainability.
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046R_Analysis and comparison of Smart City initiatives (research summary)
12 april 2022 · 11 min
Summary of the book chapter titled Analysis and comparison of Smart City initiatives from 2016 by Aranzazu Fernández-Vázquez and Ignacio López-Forniés, in the book titled Advances on Mechanics, Design Engineering and Manufacturing, published by Springer. Lees meer
Since we are investigating the future of cities, I thought it would be interesting to see the investigation of smart city initiatives. This chapter investigates smart city initiatives based on citizen-centred design methodologies, also paying attention to living labs as methodologies and organisations.
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Abstract: Complexity in cities is expected to become even higher in the short term, which implies the need to face new challenges. The Smart City (SC) model and its associate initiatives have become very popular for undertaking them but it is not often very clear what it really means. Starting with a previous classification of the initiatives developed under the SC model into two big categories, according to their approach to citizens, this paper aims to make a critical analysis of this model of city, and to propose the development of new initiatives for it based on Citizen-Centered Design methodologies. Living Labs, both as methodology and as organization, appear in this context as an interesting choice for developing initiatives with real citizen involvement along the entire design process, which it is expected to arise in later stages of research.
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045I_Milan Janosov, Ph.D., the Chief Data Scientist at Datapolis and network and data science researcher at the Central European University
7 april 2022 · 43 min
Interview with Milan Janosov, Ph.D., the Chief Data Scientist at Datapolis and network and data science researcher at the Central European University. We will talk about his vision for the future of cities, network science and complexity research, the different layers of a city, and many more. Lees meer
With a background in physics and biophysics, Milan earned my PhD in network and data science in 2020. He studied and researched at the Eötvös Loránd University and the Central European University in Budapest, at the Barabási Lab in Boston, and the Bell Labs in Cambridge. Milan is an alumni at Eötvös Collegium, belongs to Forbes 30u30 club, and has NFT contributions on SuperRare. Milan is currently the chief data scientist of Datapolis, a research affiliate at the Central European University, a senior data scientist at Maven7, and a data science expert of the European Commission. He was awarded the Scholarship of the Republic of Hungary three times, won multiple prizes at science competitions, presented my work in peer-reviewed journals and conferences from Scientific Reports to MIT. His work has been featured in Nature Social Science Research, GQ, Times Higher Education, New Scientist, New York Times, TechXplore, The Economic Times, Futurism, Phys.org, and more.
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Milan Janosov on LinkedIn;
@milan_janosov as Milan Janosov on Twitter;
Milan Janosov website;
Datapolis website;
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044R_Measuring community disaster resilience in the Latvian context: an apply case using a composite indicator approach (research summary)
5 april 2022 · 11 min
Summary of the article titled Measuring community disaster resilience in the Latvian context: an apply case using a composite indicator approach from 2016 by Maksism Feofilovs and Fancesco Romagnoli presented at the International Scientific Conference “Environmental and Climate Technologies” in Riga, Latvia. Lees meer
Since we are investigating the future of cities, I thought it would be interesting to investigate resilience from the community perspective. This article investigates community resilience to man-made and natural disasters based on a previously developed framework in the case of Latvia.
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Abstract: Despite a growing and considerable interest and implementation of disaster resilience framework methods in research, policy programs and engineering design, metrics and standards for a quantitative measuring of resilience are still an open issue. Recent literatures on hazard and disaster show that the resilience concept represents a guideline toward a valuable hazard risk management and mitigation. For the Latvian context this also represents a beneficial approach for the implementation of policy strategies based on (semi)quantitative framework aiming to enhance resilience within communities in order to properly and most efficient spend a limited availability of funds. In fact man-made and natural disasters are usually preceded by periods where communities develop toward increasing risk states until a loss occurred due to a specific disaster event. In regard to this aspect this study, principally based on the definition of the Community Disaster Resilience Framework (CDRF) developed by Mayunga, is aiming to evaluate the level of community resilience to disaster at the Latvian national level for a specific set of social, economic, human, physical, and environmental indicators. The method implements the concept of a composite-based, multi-criteria analysis aiming to measure baseline quantitative characteristics of the communi…
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043R_Shifting from sustainability to regeneration (research summary)
29 maart 2022 · 11 min
Summary of the article titled Shifting from sustainability to regeneration from 2007 by Bill Reed published in the Building Research & Information journal. Lees meer
Since we are investigating the future of cities, I thought it would be interesting to see the difference between sustainability and regeneration in relation to the environment. This article investigates how the designers and stakeholders can create a whole system of mutually beneficial relationships thus moving beyond sustaining the environment to regenerate its health as well as our own.
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Abstract: Sustainability, as currently practised in the built environment, is primarily an exercise in efficiency. In other words, the use of environmental rating systems and other mechanisms allows a reduction in the damage caused by excessive resource use. However, instead of doing less damage to the environment, it is necessary to learn how one can participate with the environment by using the health of ecological systems as a basis for design. The shift from a fragmented to a whole systems model is the significant cultural leap that consumer society needs to make – through framing and understanding living system interrelationships in an integrated way. A place-based approach is one way to achieve this understanding. The design process begins by attempting to understand how the systems of life work in each unique place. The role of designers and stakeholders is to create a whole system of mutually beneficial relationships. By doing so, the potential for green design moves beyond sustaining the environment to one that can regenerate its health – as well as our own.
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042I_Professor Mark Burry, the founding director of the Smart Cities Research Institute and Professor of Urban Futures at Swinburne University of Technology
23 maart 2022 · 35 min
Interview with Professor Mark Burry, the founding director or the Smart Cities Research Institute and Professor of Urban Futures at Swinburne University of Technology. We will talk about his vision for the future of cities, urban citizen engagement, collaboration across disciplines, and many more. Lees meer
Mark Burry is the Founding Director for Swinburne University of Technology’s ‘Smart Cities Research Institute’, an appointment he took up in May 2017. His role is to lead the development of a whole-of-university research approach to helping ensure that our future cities anticipate and meet the needs of all – engaged smart citizens for engaging smart cities. Mark is also a practising architect who has published internationally on two main themes: putting theory into practice with regard to procuring ‘challenging’ architecture, and the life, work and theories of the architect Antoni Gaudí. He has been Senior Architect to the Sagrada Família Basilica Foundation since 1979, pioneering distant collaboration with his colleagues based on-site in Barcelona. In 2001 Mark founded the Spatial Information Architecture Laboratory (SIAL) at RMIT University before establishing the Design Research Institute (DRI) in 2008. He joined the University of Melbourne in 2014 as Professor of Urban Futures at the Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning where he helped develop the Faculty’s capacity to consolidate research in urban futures, drawing together and augmenting expertise in urban visualisation, urban analytics, and urban policy.
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Mark Burry on LinkedIn
@mcb_4 as Mark Burry on Twitter
Mark Burry at Swinburne University of Technology
Smart Cities Research Institute at Swinburne University of Technology
Mark Burry website
Sagrada Familia website
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041R_A 100 smart cities, a 100 utopias (research summary)
21 maart 2022 · 10 min
Summary of the article titled A 100 smart cities, a 100 utopias from 2015 by Ayona Datta published in the Dialogues in Human Geography journal. Lees meer
Since we are investigating the future of cities, I thought it would be interesting to see the smart city application in India as it becomes the site of producing 100 proposed smart cities. This article investigates the technocratic nationalism, and the presence of young urban population influencing the smart city dream.
The article is available through this link.
Abstract: In my response to the commentaries on my anchor article, I have taken on board the key question of how and why India has become the site of production of 100 proposed smart cities. I forward a notion of ‘technocratic nationalism’ to suggest that it is the young urban population in India who have largely bought into the smart city dream. Whilst drawing encouragement from the largely positive commentaries on my article, I then take on three main critiques of the article – first, that it has inadvertently promoted a hegemony of ‘city-ness’ by focusing on the imagined smart city to be; second, that the smart city has strong connections with colonial urban planning and third, whether Dholera should be considered the first smart city at all. I suggest that the article’s city-ness and postcolonial links to India’s urban planning is both political and heuristic, since it is the postcolonial ‘urban’ moment where India has situated its moment of modernity globalization and economic power. I contend that the final critique is based on a misinterpretation of the use of the word ‘first’, which was always intended to reflect a politics of innovation among cities. Finally, I suggest that the other ‘gaps’ in my article highlighted by one of the commentators is not a gap, rather beyond the scope and objectives of an exploratory article such as this.
The transcript is available through this link.
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040R_Urban sustainability in the information age (research summary)
14 maart 2022 · 9 min
Summary of the article titled Urban sustainability in the information age from 2010 by Manuel Castells published in the City, analysis of urban trends, culture, theory, policy, action journal. Lees meer
Since we are investigating the future of cities, I thought it would be interesting to see the sustainable city in action and as a personal matter instead of being an abstract utopian ideology. This article is a transcript of a lecture and it investigates sustainability in urban, sociological and political terms as intergenerational solidarity.
The article is available through this link.
The transcript is available through this link.
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039I_Dr Kirsten Day, architect and lecturer at the University of Melbourne
9 maart 2022 · 1 uur 9 min
Interview with Dr Kirsten Day, an architect and lecturer at the University of Melbourne. We will talk about her vision for the future of cities, neuro diversity, quality of places, and many more. Lees meer
Dr Kirsten Day lectures in Architecture at the University of Melbourne in Architectural, Practice, Applied Design Thinking, Contemporary Architectural Archives, and Thesis Design Studio. She is also the Senior Academic Advisor for the Bachelor of Design program. Her publications, workshops, and studios explore themes of future scenarios and the impact of change on the architectural profession and the human condition. She was an invited speaker on the subject Future Design | Future Melbourne as part of Melbourne Design Week for the Design Institute of Australia and involved with design and futures projects for Melbourne Knowledge Week since 2018. She organised the international Conference Future Housing: Global issues regional problems at Swinburne in 2016 with Architecture Media Politics Society as part of the Housing Critical Futures conference series.
Kirsten is a Chief Investigator on the ARC LIEF project LE220100057 The Australian Emulation Network: Born Digital Cultural Collections Access. Other research projects include Work-life in Wodonga: Co-design workshops for housing and work opportunities with people with disabilities in regional Victoria, (2022) funded by Melbourne Disability Institute at The University of Melbourne. Kirsten is Chair of the Education Committee for the Victorian Chapter of the Australian Institute of Architects, and an examiner for the Architects Registration Board (Victoria). She is registered as a practicing architect and director of Norman Day + Associates Architects with over 20 years of experience in the profession. Prior to joining Melbourne, she was Course Director of Interior Architecture at Swinburne. Kirsten is also a member of The Architects Lobby and a member of the TAL Academic Caucus.
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038R_But how bad this "smart city"! (research summary)
7 maart 2022 · 10 min
Summary of the article titled But how bad this smart city from 2015 by Umberto Cao published in the Festival Architettura magazine. Lees meer
Since we are investigating the future of cities, I thought it would be interesting to see smart city as the efficient city in absolute sense. This article investigates how this efficiency affects the architectural form and quality of the city, possibly creating a dystopia.
The article is available through this link.
Abstract: The Smart City is a machine, a sort of city-computer, where the hardware is made by buildings and infrastructures and the software by integrated digital networks. So an efficient city in absolute sense. The problem is when these goals and these procedures are considered able to generate an architectural form, or when considered sufficient to return quality to the city. An urban quality that derives from "efficiency" makes think more about dystopia of Fritz Lang's Metropolis that utopia of the New City of Sant'Elia.
The transcript available through this link.
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037R_Big data, smart cities and city planning (research summary)
28 februari 2022 · 9 min
Summary of the commentary article titled Big data, smart cities and city planning from 2013 by Michael Batty published in the Dialogues in Human Geography journal. Lees meer
Since we are investigating the future of cities, I thought it would be interesting to see sea of available data changes urban areas. This article investigates how the big data shifts the emphasis from longer term strategic planning to short term thinking about urban functions and management.
The article is available through this link.
Abstract: I define big data with respect to its size but pay particular attention to the fact that the data I am referring to is urban data, that is, data for cities that are invariably tagged to space and time. I argue that this sort of data are largely being streamed from sensors, and this represents a sea change in the kinds of data that we have about what happens where and when in cities. I describe how the growth of big data is shifting the emphasis from longer term strategic planning to short-term thinking about how cities function and can be managed, although with the possibility that over much longer periods of time, this kind of big data will become a source for information about every time horizon. By way of conclusion, I illustrate the need for new theory and analysis with respect to 6 months of smart travel card data of individual trips on Greater London’s public transport systems.
The transcript is available through this link.
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036I_Magnus Moglia, associate professor and Urban Regeneration Theme leader at Swinburne University of Technology's Centre for Urban Transitions
23 februari 2022 · 44 min
Interview with Magnus Moglia, associate professor at Swinburne University of Technology. We will talk about his vision for the future of cities, urban complexity, sustainability, urban resilience, and many more. Lees meer
Magnus Moglia loves data and numbers, so it was not strange that he was drawn to the sciences. In his native Sweden, he studied Physics and Mathematics, graduating from the Royal Institute of Technology of Stockholm in 2000. After a year travelling Asia and Africa, he became passionate about cities and water management. He arrived in Australia in 2001, and then spent nearly 20 years studying urban sustainability at the CSIRO. There, he discovered and embraced the science of complex systems, leading him to complete a PhD on the topic at the ANU’s Crawford School for Public Policy. Now Magnus is an Associate Professor at Swinburne University’s Centre for Urban Transitions and a theme leader for Urban Regeneration research. In the last few years, he has been leading and undertaking transdisciplinary research on a range of potential sustainability solutions, including residential solar panels, rainwater harvesting, telework, future city imaginaries, climate adaptation in Kiribati and Vietnam, rice farming technologies in Laos, and just workforce transitions in Queensland. Magnus argues that to overcome the critical challenges of the 21st century, technology is both necessary and risky, but more important will be our capacity to work together towards shared visions.
You can find out more about Magnus through these links:
Magnus Moglia on LinkedIn;
@magnusmoglia as Magnus Moglia on Twitter
Magnus Moglia at Swinburne University of Technology
Urban Regeneration Themes at at Swinburne University of Technology's Centre for Urban Transitions
KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm website
Crawford School of Public Policy at Australian National University website
Land and Water at CSIRO (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation)
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035R_Review of sustainability indices and indicators: Towards a new City Sustainability Index (research summary)
21 februari 2022 · 10 min
Summary of the article titled Review of sustainability indices and indicators: Towards a new City Sustainability Index from 2012 by Koichiro Mori and Aris Christodoulou published in the Environmental Impact Assessment Review journal. Lees meer
Since we are investigating the future of cities, I thought it would be interesting to see how the different sustainability indices work and whether a new is needed to better assess urban sustainability. This article investigates whether a new sustainability index is needed, enabling to assess and compare cites’ sustainability performance in order to understand the global impact of cities on the environment and human life as compared with their economic contribution.
The article available through this link.
Abstract: The purpose of this paper is to discuss conceptual requirements for a City Sustainability Index (CSI) and to review existing major sustainability indices/indicators in terms of the requirements. The following indices are reviewed: Ecological Footprint (EF), Environmental Sustainability Index (ESI), Dashboard of Sustainability (DS), Welfare Index, Genuine Progress Indicator (GPI), Index of Sustainable Economic Welfare, City Development Index, emergy/exergy, Human Development Index (HDI), Environmental Vulnerability Index (EVI), Environmental Policy Index (EPI), Living Planet Index (LPI), Environmentally-adjusted Domestic Product (EDP), Genuine Saving (GS), and some applications of composite indices or/and multivariate indicators to local or regional context as case studies. The key conceptual requirements for an adequate CSI are: (i) to consider environmental, economic and social aspects (the triple bottom line of sustainability) from the viewpoint of strong sustainability; (ii) to capture external impacts (leakage effects) of city on other areas beyond the city boundaries particularly in terms of environmental aspects; (iii) to create indices/indicators originally for the purpose of assessing city sustainability; and (iv…
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034R_Actually existing smart citizens – Expertise and (non)participation in the making of the smart city (research summary)
14 februari 2022 · 12 min
Summary of the article titled Actually existing smart citizens – Expertise and (non)participation in the making of the smart city from 2019 by Taylor Shelton and Thomas Lodato published in the City – analysis of urban trends, culture, theory, policy, action journal. Lees meer
Since we are investigating the future of cities, I thought it would be interesting to see how smart citizens are or aren’t involved in establishing the smart city. This article argues that while the citizen participation is crucial to truly democratic systems, the emerging discourse around the promise of smart citizenship fails to capture the realities of how citizens are actually discussed and enrolled in the making of smart city or smart citizen policies.
The article is available through this link.
Abstract: In response to the mounting criticism of emerging ‘smart cities’ strategies around the world, a number of individuals and institutions have attempted to pivot from discussions of smart cities towards a focus on ‘smart citizens’. While the smart citizen is most often seen as a kind of foil for those more stereotypically top-down, neoliberal and repressive visions of the smart city that have been widely critiqued within the literature, this paper argues for an attention to the ‘actually existing smart citizen’, who plays a much messier and more ambivalent role in practice. This paper proposes the dual figures of ‘the general citizen’ and ‘the absent citizen’ as a heuristic for thinking about how the lines of inclusion and exclusion are drawn for citizens, both discursively and materially, in the actual making of the smart city. These figures are meant to highlight how the universal and unspecified figure of ‘the citizen’ is discursively deployed to justify smart city policies, while at the same time, actual citizens remain largely excluded from such decision and policy-making processes. Using a case study of Atlanta, Georgia and its ongoing smart cities initiatives, we argue that while the partic…
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033I_Anthony Mazzei, co-founder and Chief Product Officer at Erin Living
9 februari 2022 · 59 min
Interview with Anthony Mazzei, the co-founder and Chief Product Officer at Erin Living. We will talk about his vision for the future of cities, sustainable apartment buildings, effortless living, and many more. So, let’s start with a proper introduction. Lees meer
Anthony Mazzei is the Co-founder and Chief Product Officer at Erin Living. He has spent over 15 years in product and technology, building and designing software for some of the biggest (and smallest) companies and brands in the world. Anthony recently spent 5 years at ASX-listed Carsales.com working on their B2B software platforms as well as consumer facing mobile apps. Together, with Thomas Walkley, he founded Erin Living, a resident experience company in 2018 aimed to build software for the PropTech industry.
Erin Living is a resident experience company who has designed and developed a dedicated mobile app for apartment owners and tenants. Their suite of products allow residents to live effortlessly in any built environment, solving the everyday pain points of apartment living. Anthony has set out to overhaul the customer and product experience in the Proptech space, creating a unique resident-focused app that unlocks the full benefits of apartment living. Erin Living operates sustainably and efficiently, offering a completely touch-free and automated lifestyle across multi-dwelling residential. The future is bright for Erin Living, who aims to become the No. 1 Resident Experience platform in Australia, New Zealand and the rest of the world.
You can find out more about Anthony and Erin Living through these links:
Anthony Mazzei on LinkedIn,
@anthmazzei as Anthony Mazzei on Twitter,
Erin Living website,
Erin Living on Instagram
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032R_Smart City implementation and discourses: An integrated conceptual model. The case of Vienna (research summary)
7 februari 2022 · 11 min
Summary of the article titled Smart city implementation and discourses: An integrated conceptual model, the case of Vienna from 2018 by Victoria Fernandez-Anez, José Miguel Fernández-Güell, and Rudolf Giffinger published in the Cities journal. Lees meer
Since we are investigating the future of cities, I thought it would be interesting to see how citizens can be involved in smart city initiatives and their capacity to face urban challenges. This article creates a conceptual model for the involvement of inhabitants, through the example of Vienna Smart City strategy.
The article is available through this link.
Abstract: In recent years many initiatives have been developed under the Smart City label in a bid to provide a response to challenges facing cities today. The concept has evolved from a sector-based approach to a more comprehensive view that places governance and stakeholders' involvement at the core of strategies. However, Smart City implementation requires lowering the scale from the strategy to the project level. Therefore, the ability of Smart City initiatives to provide an integrated and systematic answer to urban challenges is constantly being called into question. Stakeholder involvement in both the projects and the city strategy is key to developing a governance framework that allows an integrated and comprehensive understanding. This can only be done if Smart City strategies take the stakeholders' opinion into account and seek a compromise between their views and the implementation of the strategy. Multiple attempts have been made to analyse Smart Cities, but tools are needed to understand their complexity and reflect the stakeholders' role in developing Smart City initiatives and their capacity to face urban challenges. This paper pursues two objectives: (A) to develop a conceptual model capable of displaying an overview of (a) the stakeholders taking part in the initiative in relation to (b) the projects developed and (c) the challenges they face; and (B) t…
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031R_City attachment and use of urban services: Benefits for smart cities (research summary)
31 januari 2022 · 11 min
Summary of the article titled City attachment and use of urban services: Benefits for smart cities from 2016 by Daniel Belanche, Luis V. Casaló, and Carlos Orús, published in the Cities journal. Lees meer
Since we are investigating the future of cities, I thought it would be interesting to see how the increasing uses of urban services enhance urban management efficiency and also favour social, environmental and economic sustainability. This article analyses how users’ city attachment levels and other personal determinants contribute to their uses of urban services, and suggest implications for managing citizen-oriented urban services to achieve higher living standards.
The article is available through this link.
Abstract: Increasing uses of urban services enhance urban management efficiency and also favor social, environmental, and economic sustainability. This research analyzes how users' city attachment levels and other personal determinants contribute to their uses of urban services. Focusing on the city of Zaragoza (Spain), the empirical study reveals that personal attitudes and needs, possession of user cards, and education levels have positive influences on the use of urban services. City attachment affects use indirectly through attitude. This study also presents some innovative approaches to advance the development of smart cities and suggests implications for managing citizen-oriented urban services to achieve higher living standards.
The transcript is available through this link.
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030I_Ville Sirviö, CEO of the Nordic Institute for Interoperability (NIIS)
26 januari 2022 · 45 min
Interview with Ville Sirviö, the CEO of the Nordic Institute for Interoperability. We will talk about his vision for the future of cities, interoperability on national and city level, challenges of change management, and many more. Lees meer
Ville Sirviö is the CEO of the Nordic Institute for Interoperability Solutions (NIIS), a non-profit developing digital government infrastructure, best known for the X-Road® open-source software. Having international experience in leading businesses ranging from startups to Nasdaq listed companies, he is also a board professional and advisor and keynote speaker on cross-border digital cooperation. He holds an EMBA from the Quantic School of Business and Technology, specialising in strategic thinking, advanced corporate-level strategy, and startup entrepreneurship.
You can find out more about Richard through these links:
Ville Sirviö on LinkedIn;
@sirvioville as Ville Sirviö on Twitter;
NIIS on LinkedIn;
NIIS website;
X-Road website;
X-Road community website;
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029R_Smart cities in a smart world (research summary)
24 januari 2022 · 12 min
Summary of the book chapter titled Smart cities in a smart world from 2015 by Beniamino Murgante and Giuseppe Burroso, from the book Future City architecture for optimal living, edited by Stamatina Rassia and Panos Pardalos, published by Springer. Lees meer
Since we are investigating the future of cities, I thought it would be interesting to see what clever approaches they talk about to guarantee a better management of resources and their sustainable access to present and future generations This chapter tries to insert the technological issues within a framework closer to planning and with attention to the social impact.
You can find the chapter through this link.
You can find the book through this link.
Abstract: Very often the concept of smart city is strongly related to the flourishing of mobile applications, stressing the technological aspects and a top-down approach of high-tech centralized control systems capable of resolving all the urban issues, completely forgetting the essence of a city with its connected problems. The real challenge in future years will be a huge increase in the urban population and the changes this will produce in energy and resource consumption. It is fundamental to manage this phenomenon with clever approaches in order to guarantee a better management of resources and their sustainable access to present and future generations. This chapter develops some considerations on these aspects, trying to insert the technological issues within a framework closer to planning and with attention to the social impact.
The transcript is available through this link.
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028R_Enhancing sustainable urban development through smart city applications (research article)
17 januari 2022 · 13 min
Summary of the article titled Enhancing sustainable urban development through smart city applications from 2017 by Margarita Angelidiou, Artemis Psaltoglou, Nicos Komninos, Christina Kakderi, Panagiotis Tsarchopoulos and Anastasia Panori, published in the Journal of Science and Technology Policy Management. Lees meer
Since we are investigating the future of cities, I thought it would be interesting to see what smart city approaches and tools can contribute to the environmental sustainability domain. This article connects the smart and sustainable cities debate and identifies areas where the smart city applications could and should be enhanced for better sustainability.
You can find the article through this link.
Abstract: This paper investigates the potential contribution of smart city approaches and tools to sustainable urban development in the environment domain. Recent research has highlighted the need to explore the relation of smart and sustainable cities more systematically, focusing on practical applications that could enable a deeper understanding of the included domains, typologies and design concepts, and this paper aims to address this research gap. At the same time, it tries to identify whether these applications could contribute to the “zero vision” strategy, an extremely ambitious challenge within the field of smart cities. This objective is pursued through an in-depth investigation of available open source and proprietary smart city applications related to environmental sustainability in urban environments. A total of 32 applications were detected through the Intelligent/Smart Cities Open Source (ICOS) community, a meta-repository for smart cities solutions. The applications are analyzed comparatively regarding (i) the environmental issue addressed, (ii) the associated mitigation strategies, (iii) the included innovation mechanism, (iv) the role of information and communication technologies and (v) the overall outcome. The findings suggest that the smart an…
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027I_Richard Manasseh, mechanical engineer and Professor at Swinburne University of Technology - Fluid flows and urban brains
12 januari 2022 · 58 min
Interview with Richard Manasseh, mechanical engineer and Professor at Swinburne University of Technology. We will talk about his visions for the future of cities, his journey towards being involved in cities, urban brains, and many more. Lees meer
Professor Richard Manasseh is a mechanical engineer with specialist knowledge of fluid dynamics. At a fundamental level, Richard’s research focuses on wave modes and oscillators in fluids and their interactions. He is best known for his work on the vibrations of bubbles, called bubble acoustics. His active projects examine ocean wave-power machines; the interaction of ultrasound with microbubbles and live cells for medical diagnostics and therapeutics; and the interaction of ultrasound with droplets for food processing. Further applications of his research have included spacecraft engineering, coastal oceanography, thunderstorms, submarine noise, wastewater treatment and microfluidic devices.
Richard is a Fellow of the Institution of Engineers, Australia (IEAust), and an IEAust Chartered Professional Engineer. He has served as both President and Vice-President of the Australasian Fluid Mechanics Society. He became a full-time academic in 2010 after a career in industrial R&D and headed Swinburne's Department of Mechanical and Product Design Engineering for three years after a year as Mechanical Engineering Discipline Leader.
You can find out more about Richard through these links:
Richard Manasseh on LinkedIn;
@RLManasseh as Richard Manasseh on Twitter;
Richard Manasseh at Swinburne University;
The leadership team of Smart Cities Research Institute of Swinburne University of Technology
Smart Cities Research Institute at Swinburne University;
Fluid Waves by Richard Manasseh;
Bubble acoustics - A short introduction by Richard Manasseh on Youtube;
Australasian Fluid Mechanics Society website;
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026R_Smart cities - A roadmap for development (research summary)
10 januari 2022 · 9 min
Summary of the article titled Smart cities – a road map for development from 2018 by Sam Musa, published in IEEE Potentials journal. Lees meer
Since we are investigating the future of cities, I thought it would be interesting to understand how a practical approach defines smart city as the future of cities. This article introduces a city-wide smart, secure and resilient transformation needed in light of urban challenges.
You can find the article through this link.
Abstract: Cities and counties face many challenges and risks, such as unemployment, poverty, traffic congestion, high crime rates, cyberattacks, and slow bureaucratic systems for processing business transactions. People, processes, and technology are three pillars of smart-city initiatives that can be utilized to alleviate such a challenge. Cities and counties should study their communities, create policies, and implement technological solutions to meet the needs of their local communities. Local, state, and federal governments must be innovative and develop a road map to address and provide solutions to mitigate risks and challenges to create a sustainable future for their citizens. Digital transformation is one option that governments can rely on to overcome many of these challenges; other options may include adopting e-government, engaging residents, and building resilient cities. Government officials must build a coalition to collaborate, leverage, and integrate technologies to create real economic opportunities by fostering a citywide, smart, secure, and resilient transformation.
The transcript is available through this link.
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025R_Smart cities of tomorrow (research article)
3 januari 2022 · 13 min
Summary of the the article titled Smart cities of tomorrow from 2013 by Paul Budde, published in the Cities for smart environment and energy futures book. Lees meer
Since we are investigating the future of cities, I thought it would be interesting to see how technological advancements enhance smart, citizen-centric applications, which with the right building blocks, lead to smart cities.
You can find the article through this link.
The book is available through this link.
Abstract: Tomorrow’s digital cities will be the product of today’s dreams. The world presently faces numerous challenges, many of which can only be overcome by changing the way we do things. We are now at a turning point and our future will be shaped by the way in which we respond to today’s problems, and how successfully we can move into the digital world. An important element of these developments lies in the creation of Smart Cities, consisting of cohesive and open telecommunication and software architecture, which will underpin the smart, citizen-centric applications that will abound. These applications will also be applied in areas of national interest and social need, such as e-health, smart energy and e-education. For this occur a trans-sector approach is needed, along with strong government leadership – a more horizontal system of collaboration which combines the knowledge and resources of different sectors. The building blocks upon which smart cities will be created include smart and renewable energy; next-generation networks; smart buildings; smart transport; and, extremely important, smart government.
The transcript is available through this link.
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027I_Trailer_Richard Manasseh, mechanical engineer and Professor at Swinburne University of Technology - Fluid flows and urban brains
1 januari 2022 · 3 min
Trailer to episode 027I for the interview with Richard Manasseh, mechanical engineer and Professor at Swinburne University of Technology. We will talk about his visions for the future of cities, his journey towards being involved in cities, urban brains, and many more. Lees meer
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024_Merry Christmas and a very Happy New Year!
29 december 2021 · 1 min
Today would be an interview, but since it is 2021 Christmas time, I want to just wish you all relaxing holidays with or without celebrating Christmas, Merry Christmas if you do celebrate it, and a very Happy New Year when we will have many interesting topics to discover and further discuss. I am already preparing those episodes and I am very excited about what will come! So I hope you are well and also full with plans for the new year, see you then and thanks for tuning in. Lees meer
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023R_Smart cities and disaster resilience (research summary)
27 december 2021 · 11 min
Summary of the article titled Smart cities and disaster resilience from 2017 by Neha Bansal, Mahua Mukherjee and Ajay Gairola in the book titled From poverty, inequality to smart city, published by Springer. Lees meer
Since we are investigating the future of cities, and cities are said to bare more and more natural disasters, I thought it would interesting to see how disaster resilience can be enhanced by the smart city concept. This article investigates how efficient urban planning can have a major impact on preparedness and capacities to recover after natural disasters.
You can find the article through this link.
Abstract: Most of the present cities are characterized by low-density urban sprawl, fragile infrastructure, low resilience, and people’s poor coping capability to disasters. Further with the increasing unplanned rapid urbanization, the disasters (in terms of frequency and numbers) and their impacts are increasing, which is primarily associated with badly planned and managed urban development, degraded ecosystems, and poverty. According to a study by the United Nations, almost 890 million people (60 %) across the globe live in cities that are at risk from at least one major natural disaster, including floods, droughts, cyclones, or earthquakes. Disasters eventually wipe off years of development and cause death, injury, economic losses, and environmental and urban systems’ degradation. Since a city is an integration of complicated urban systems like transportation, water supply, sanitation, housing, and other urban infrastructure and services, strengthening these systems will increase the resilience and help in disaster management in urban areas. On the other hand, smart cities use information and communications technology (ICT) to involve people, improve city services, and enhance urban systems which in turn will improve disaster resilience. To make cities disaster resilient right at the inception stage, the efficiency in urban planning can have a major impact o…
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022R_Crypto cities (article summary)
20 december 2021 · 11 min
Summary of the article titled Crypto cities from 2021 by Vitalik Buterin on his own blog. Lees meer
Since we are investigating the future of cities, I though it would be interesting to see how the ever trending crypto world and cities can work together. This article explores how and to what extent the blockchain technology and the city can collaborate and what enhancements are possible.
You can find the article through this link.
Additional information about city token engineering can be found through this link.
The transcript is available through this link.
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021I_Bridgette Engeler, foresight specialist
15 december 2021 · 1 uur 2 min
Interview with Bridgette Engeler, a foresight specialist. We will talk about her visions for the future of cities, what futurists and foresight specialists do, her understanding of sustainability, and many more. Lees meer
Bridgette is a Senior Lecturer teaching across strategic foresight, design and innovation in Swinburne University’s Business School. She has 30 years' industry experience in brand, design and innovation strategy, and holds master degrees in Strategic Foresight and Women’s Studies. Bridgette's work focuses on the potential of design and futures to tackle challenges facing people, culture and systems, and her research interests include post-growth innovation, the unintended consequences of design, and embedding futures literacy in design and innovation. Recent projects include public participatory futures installations in Melbourne and Hong Kong, investigating VR and AR wearables for people with early-onset dementia, exploring the challenges of self-sovereign identity and digital wallets, and finding ways to use technology and new materials to support sexual and reproductive health.
You can find out more about Bridgette through these links:
Bridgette Engeler on LinkedIn;
@incognitosum as Bridgette Engeler on Twitter
Bridgette Engeler at Swinburne University;
Design Futures Initiative website;
Speculative Futures Melbourne on LinkedIn;
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020R_Antifragile: Things that gain from disorder (Incerto) (book summary)
13 december 2021 · 10 min
Summary of the book titled Antifragile: Things that gain from disorder from 2014 by Nassim Nicholas Taleb. This summary is based on Larry Prusak’s summary which Taleb has praised, another summary found on Farnam Steet Blog, and my own reading experience. Lees meer
Since we are investigating the future of cities, I though it would be interesting to see how systems can work beyond sustainability and robustness, antifragile, as Nassim Nicholas Taleb defines it. The book is about how systems can become antifragile and what the advantages are of becoming one through many different examples.
You can find the book through this link.
Book description from Amazon:
Nassim Nicholas Taleb, the bestselling author of The Black Swan and one of the foremost thinkers of our time, reveals how to thrive in an uncertain world. Just as human bones get stronger when subjected to stress and tension, and rumors or riots intensify when someone tries to repress them, many things in life benefit from stress, disorder, volatility, and turmoil. What Taleb has identified and calls “antifragile” is that category of things that not only gain from chaos but need it in order to survive and flourish. In The Black Swan, Taleb showed us that highly improbable and unpredictable events underlie almost everything about our world. In Antifragile, Taleb stands uncertainty on its head, making it desirable, even necessary, and proposes that things be built in an antifragile manner. The antifragile is beyond the resilient or robust. The resilient resists shocks and stays the same; the antifragile gets better and better.
Furthermore, the antifragile is immune to prediction errors and protected from adverse events. Why is the city-state better than the nation-state, why is debt bad for you, and why is what we call “efficient” not efficient at all? Why do government responses and social policies protect the strong and hurt the weak? Why should you write your resignation letter before even starting on the job? How did…
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019R_How the car transformed society in the 20th century? (research summary)
6 december 2021 · 8 min
Summary of the article titled How the car transformed society in the 20th century from 2020 by James Arbib and Tony Seba, in Rethinking Humanity – Five foundational sector disruption, the lifecycle of civilizations and the coming age of freedom, from the RethinkXTeam. Lees meer
Since we are investigating the future of cities, I though it would interesting be to see how the car has changed and been changing cities, as it is said to be one of the biggest problems for current urban environments. This article explores how and to what extent the car and the auto industry have changed our society since their infancy, and what were the moving forces.
You can find Rethinking Humanity and this specific article through this link.
The transcript is available through this link.
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018I_María Jose Yanez, assistant development manager at Nightingale Housing
1 december 2021 · 36 min
Interview with María Yanez, an assistant development manager at Nightingale Housing. We will talk about her and their visions for the future of cities, how Nightingale changes the development industry, what sustainability means to them, and many more. Lees meer
Maria Yanez forms part of the development management team at Nightingale Housing, a not-for-profit organisation that provides economically, socially, and environmentally sustainable homes across Australia. Maria holds a Master of Architecture degree at the University of Melbourne and was recently awarded the 2021 Grimshaw Award for Architectural Engineering and the Dean's Award Master of Architecture 2019 and 2020. She is a registered architect in Chile and has previously led design studios at Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, alongside the 2016 Pritzker Prize architect Alejandro Aravena. She is currently a design tutor of the Bachelor of Design program at The University of Melbourne.
You can find out more about María Yanez and Nightingale Housing through these links:
María Jose Yanez on LinkedIn;
Nightingale Housing website;
Nightingale Housing on Instagram;
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017R_On the difficulty of agreeing upon a universal logic for city standards - A response to Schindler and Marvin (research summary)
29 november 2021 · 13 min
Summary of the response article titled On the difficulty of agreeing upon a universal logic for city standards from 2019 by James Merricks White, published in the City – analysis of urban trends, culture, theory, policy, action journal. Lees meer
This article is the response to the last research episode’s debate article, by Schindler and Marvin which was about three standards for the future of cities, and I highly encourage everyone to check that as well. But I thought it would be interesting to hear the contra arguments. This response article investigates and corrects Schindler and Marvin’s mistake of leaving out the system in which the chosen three ISO standards were conceptualised.
You can find the article through this link.
Abstract: In a paper published within the Debates section of City last year, Schindler and Marvin laid out an agenda for the study of city standards, which they argued impose a universal logic of control. While they described three published standards and situated city standards within the context of smart cities, their failure to consider the institutional setting of the International Organization of Standardization (ISO) led them to overemphasise the coherence and unity with which city standards are actually developed. In this response piece, I correct this omission by excavating the origins of TC 268, the technical committee dedicated to city standards. This reveals not a universal logic of control, but a body of expertise in contentious and contingent emergence. While ultimately, I agree with Schindler and Marvin that city standards are deserving of greater attention from critical urban scholars, I argue for a more situated response to their politics that leaves open the possibility of them having positive effects on urban equity and social change.
The transcript is available through this link.
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016R_Constructing a universal logic of urban control? International standards for data, management and interoperability (research summary)
22 november 2021 · 13 min
Summary of the the debate article titled Constructing a universal logic of urban control? International standards for city data, management and interoperability from 2018 by Seth Schindler and Simon Marvin, published in the City – analysis of urban trends, culture, theory, policy, action journal. Lees meer
Since we are investigating the future of cities, I though it would be interesting to include how standards approach data and urban management from a generalisation point of view. The article investigates 3 ISO standards promising to standardise cities as data, quality management and simplified decision-making. Furthermore, this article will be the basis of the next research episode which will debate the conclusions of this article.
You can find the article through this link.
The transcript is available through this link.
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015I_Luke Husengo, system architect and data magician
17 november 2021 · 46 min
Interview with Luke Husengo, system architect and data magician. We will talk about his two visions for the future of cities, the connection among data, information and knowledge, smart cities, awareness of opportunities, and many more. Lees meer
Luke Housengo is an Enterprise Architect with a focus on Data, Information, Knowledge and Artificial Intelligence. Luke develops data and technology strategies and manages data governance for Australian Enterprises and the Victorian Government. He also provides innovation research services in Swarm Intelligence, Graph AI and Cryptocurrency. Luke is the principal architect of a future city project that combines cryptocurrency, swarm intelligence and smart data.
You can find out more about Luke Husengo and his endeavors through these links:
Luke Husengo on LinkedIn
Jedi as a religion movement established by Luke Husengo
Edeity tie know invented by Luke Husengo
Links to the mentioned elements:
Mortal Engines
Susan Blackmore - Temes
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014R_Smart city policies: A spatial approach (research summary)
15 november 2021 · 13 min
Summary of the research article titled Smart city policies: A spatial approach from 2014 by Margarita Angelidou, published in the Cities journal. Lees meer
Since we are investigating the future of cities, I though it would be interesting to include smart cities spatial understanding. The article investigates the strategic choices around smart city policy making through examples from all over the world, with some recommendations towards the future.
You can find this paper through this link.
Abstract: This paper reviews the factors which differentiate policies for the development of smart cities, in an effort to provide a clear view of the strategic choices that come forth when mapping out such a strategy. The paper commences with a review and categorization of four strategic choices with a spatial reference, on the basis of the recent smart city literature and experience. The advantages and disadvantages of each strategic choice are presented. In the second part of the paper, the previous choices are illustrated through smart city strategy cases from all over the world. The third part of the paper includes recommendations for the development of smart cities based on the combined conclusions of the previous parts. The paper closes with a discussion of the insights that were provided and recommendations for future research areas.
The transcript is available through this link.
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