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The smart enough city: Lessons from the past and a framework for the…
The smart enough city: Lessons from the past and a framework for the future
Today's technology
Gather data about phenomena.
Predict outcomes that appeared unforeseeable.
Interact with others.
Digital technologies (designed)
Revolution in urban life.
Will drastically alter municipal government and urban life.
The automobile
Was remarkably destructive.
Not inevitably harmful to cities.
The cars where the key to urban progress was disastrous.
“Motor age”
Socially optimal efficiencies.
Smoother traffic was universally desirable.
Smart city as a new form of corporate propaganda.
Recent scientific and technological developments provide the tools to solve pressing urban issues.
“Optimizing society with rationality and efficiency in mind requires reducing complex ecosystems to simplified schemas, often causing irrevocable damages.”
Algorithms are not inherently flawed or malicious but rather that ecological systems such as cities are far too complex, and that often creates long-term damage.
Tech goggles
The smart enough city.
Hyper-rationalized planning
Tech goggles
Inspired by new scientific methods of mathematical analysis.
Simplify and distort a given ecosystem into something that can be optimized.
May generate unforeseen and irreparable damage.
High modernism
A new and optimal society could be achieved only by starting from a black slate.
British Urban Planner
Ill-ventilated
Unplanned
Crowded
Unwieldy
Unhealthy cities
Garden city
New type of rational community with every facility placed in its proper location.
The proper balance between housing and jobs.
Modern scientific methods
Radiant City
Vertical garden city that was to be an organized, ordered entity.
Total efficiency and rationalization
Linear and Cartesian logic
Vast open spaces
Minimize transportation between the residential and industrial zones.
The unique solution for an ideal society, and that no politician, law, or member of the public should be allowed to stand in the way of its creation.
Cities, What type of problem are they?
The Smart City Playbook
Solve real people problems
: How do you know the problem it's an actual problem
Stop sales people:
send someone who knows about cities, talk to residents and workers.
Don't worship efficiency
: Efficiency assumes we know what services to provide residents, but now make it cheap.
Smart city
Cities as abstract technical processes that optimized by the use of sensors, data and algorithms.
Employing technology only to alleviate real people problems.
Urbanism can’t be reduced to an app or algorithm.
Anti-city
What should a city optimize for?
Build the best city possible with the existing law.
It's the laws fault of imperfect cities
The real danger is in ‘Smart Washing’, cities need real investment
“We say ‘let's just throw some technology fairy dust at it and that's going to make it go away’”
Almendra Teycalco García García - A01746426