What's so Smart about Cities?

Igor SchwarzmannTwitter: @zeigor

eMail: schwarzmann@gmail.comhttp://smartcities.posterous.com/

I'm explaining technology induced social change

at Ketchum Pleon

The 19th century was a century of empires, the 20th century was a century of nation states. The 21st century will be the century of cities. - Wellington E. Webb, Former mayor of Denver

2050 according to IBM (USA): 70 percent of people will be living

in cities.Image by strangeharvest.com

SustainabilityUrban planingPatternsArchitectureInfrastructure...

Wild City, Berlage Institute + STEALTHhttp://www.stealth.ultd.net/stealth/01_wildcity.html

Chişinău, Nahariya, Tel Aviv, Darmstadt, Frankfurt am Main,Cologne, Düsseldorf, Berlin,

New York

[...] Next comes ubiquitous computing, or the age of calm technology, when technology recedes into the background of our lives. - Mark Weiser, Xerox PARC

Ubiquity today

Internet of Things

Photo by Timo Arnall: http://www.flickr.com/photos/timo/1616057288/

= A lot of information

But how is it transforming

cities?

Image by Maya Design: http://vimeo.com/7395079

Community poweredsolutions

twitter, 4square, everyblock, DIYcity, ...

Government enabledsolutions

A City that thinkslike the web.

- Mark Surman,Mozilla Foundation

Internet City=

• Communities• API• Programmable (digital) Properties

• Farmville• ...

• Communities• API• Programmable (digital) Properties

• Farm• ...

IBM Smart Cities: Enhancing the cities we live in

In 5 years: Cities will predict diseases, react to catastrophes before they are called in, self-repairing infrastructure, substantially lowered emissions

Image by IBM

New Songdo. Let's built a city from scratch.

Gale International + 35 Billion + Cisco = New 300.000 large, networked metropolis

Photograph by James Whitlow Delano

Build infrastructure + sell the citizens of the city the right consumer device for their infrastructure = 30 Billion Business

New Sondgo = Template for 20 cities in China & India

Future: A network of networked cities?

Everything we think of as organic and emergent in cities is absent.- Adam Greenfield, Nokia

Our cities are now linked and learning. - Lord Richard Roger

Image by urbanismo.com

Thank you.

Here be dragons.