Smart Cities: The Players, the Potential and the Role of Planning Practice

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1 Smart Cities: The Players, the Potential and the Role of Planning Practice Karen Quinn Fung Secretary-Treasurer, APA Technology Division EPIC Conference Puget Sound Section, Washington APA 4 June 2014, 11:30am

2 Let s make a deal over lunch. Discussion, 10 Lighting Format, 6"¾" APA Task Force, 5 Stories & Examples, 5

3 Pecha Kucha, Ignite, etc. YES, LIGHTNING FORMAT! 20 SLIDES, 20 SECONDS EACH NOW!

4 What is the smart city? WHAT IS(N T) THE SMART CITY?

5 Data-driven Responsive Adaptive Cutting-edge Predictable Controllable Cost-effective / efficient Resource-mindful SMART GENERALLY DEPENDS ON WHO YOU ASK

6 So far Hardware & Infrastructure Broadband technology Energy App developers Internet of Things startups WHO TALKS ABOUT THE SMART CITY? Increasingly Transportation planners Sustainability scholars & advocates Technology & Public Policy analysts Service & Interaction Designers

7 SMART (noun) versus TECHNOLOGY TO BRING ABOUT CITIES

8 Please to be giving me creative partnerships and collaborations, social inclusion/justice, models for funding, accountability and policy with the new technology, kthx.

9 OPEN TRIP PLANNER

10 THIS IS OUR STOP

11 SERVICE DESIGN

12 OPEN GOVERNMENT CULTURE & DATA

13 NEW FRONTIERS OF URBAN EXPERIENCE

14 TOP-DOWN SMART CITIES BOTTOM-UP CIVIC HACKING FOR CITIES

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17 TOP-DOWN SMART CITIES and BOTTOM-UP CIVIC HACKING FOR CITIES

18 DEVELOPING A PRAXIS FOR SMART CITIES

19 WHO TELLS THE STORIES ABOUT TECHNOLOGY IN CITIES? (AND HOW?)

20 WHOSE SIDE DO PEOPLE THINK PLANNERS ARE ON? ARE WE WALKING OUR TALK?

21 WHAT DECISIONS OUGHT WE BE INVOLVED IN? WHAT OPPORTUNITIES ARE WE NOT SEIZING?

22 WHO FEELS LIKE WE DO?

23 Adam Greenfield user experience Anthony Townsend futurist Kelvin Campbell urban scholar Boyd Cohen climate adaptation strategist Jennifer Evans-Cowley planning lecturer/researcher Malcolm McCullough architect Bill Pitkin planning researcher Rick Robinson executive architect Saskia Sassen sociologist Richard Sennett sociologist Alex Steffen futurist & sustainability advocate PEOPLE THAT SAY INSIGHTFUL THINGS ABOUT SMART CITIES ACCORDING TO KAREN

24 Coming to APA National 2015 in Seattle! Seeking volunteers help us ask the right questions & answer them as practicing planners! Transportation Division Sustainable Communities Division Technology Division APA TASK FORCE ON SMART CITIES FOR SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITIES

25 Here endeth the Lightning Talk.

26 THE HACKERSPACE / MAKER MOVEMENT

27 SERVICES DESIGNED FOR CAR-FREE LIVING

28 OPEN STREET MAP à WALKING PAPERS

29 FROM DATA TO COLLABORATIVE MEANING MAKING

30 OPEN GOVERNMENT CULTURE SUPPORTING PLANNING CONVERSATIONS

31 E-CITIZENSHIP

32 We are not building yesterday s places. They ll be walkable, but they ll also need to speak to the integrated information and service experiences people have become accustomed to, in addition to addressing our goals for livability, health and ecology. * Alex Steffen, 2013 EcoDistricts Summit, The City As Service

33 Where shall we go with all of this? Who are you / do you want to be working with on this? APA TASK FORCE ON SMART CITIES

34 DISCUSSION

35 Twitter: Web: countablyinfinite.ca; vancouverpublicspace.ca Task Force: transportation sustainable tech THANK YOU!

36 Photo credits: M. Southworth, Retrieved from socio75.html. Digital Trends ( Google Blog ( Flickr user animakitty ( City of Vancouver Green Streets Vancouver. Retrieved from Rocky Mountain Joe - Drew McLellan / Wikimedia Commons - Junifermarie - Canadianveggie mapping Vancouver bike racks /01/29/data-nerd-mapping-vancouvers-bike-racks/

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