Download Problems?

Great challenges – great innovations
Sustainable cities-smarter cities
Gabor Takacs
New York
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Topics
1. Introduction
2. Problems? What problems
3. Cities -sustainability context
4. Sustainable cities –technology context
5. Examples of great actions
6. General challenges
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Problems? What problems?
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Problems? What problems?
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Sustainablity – definition?
"A development that satisfies the needs of the present without
compromising the needs of the future" (World Commission on
Environment and Development (1987)
Sustainability: an idea too complex. Economic,
social,ecological….sustainabilty.
Practically it’s good enough resource management. For practical
reasons we usually talk about “good-enough” sustainability
any/some/all of these subsystems that last long enough and “here
enough”.
One “break down” of this complex issue is the concept of
sustainable CITIES.
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Cities in sustainability context
Cities in the context of sustainability: efficiency centers ,
results of optimization, dependent on outsourcing.
Platforms: concentrated activities and dependent on
outsourcing in order to increase overall system efficiency.
The challenge is three-fold:
1) survive and function long enough
2) solve the problems within borders: generated by
concentration
3) solve associated problems generated beyond the
borders (reduce ecological footprint. Input: energy, food,
water, environmental amenities, output: pollution)
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Sustainable cities-technology context
Role of technology: Now we a) have data, b) have technology –
to implement near-perfect resources management.
Building new and/or reorganizing the old:
Building new: leapfrogging technologies
Fixing old: visionary bridging between current (past) locked
in technologies and infrastructure to the future-near
perfect demand-supply and resource management
Conclusion: Sustainable IS smarter….smarter IS sustainable
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What makes a smart city?
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Examples: being realistic
Understanding risks/opportunity:
110 city survey, 88: risk from temperature increase, 81 risk
intense rainfall, etc. 81 % - sees climate change as social risk
See the opportunity:
98 % sees climate change as economic opportunity
Resilience: NYC climate change resilience program – subway
water resilience
Globally 110 cities survey: resilience plan 63 % ( 2011), 78 %
(2013)
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Examples –ambitions and visions
Setting targets (GHG emission): beyond national targets
• Washington DC 80 % (2005-2050)
• Portland 80 % (1990-2050)
• Philadelphia 25 % (1990-2015)
• St. Louis 25 % (2005-2020)
• San Francisco 25 % (1990-2017)
• New York 30 % (2005-2030)
• Los Angeles 35 % (1990-2030)
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Examples: transportation
• Boston application: to find on-street parking in the Innovation
District
• Bicycle friendly surface (Portland, NY, SF), Citi bike system (NY,
Washington DC, Boston) – and data collection
• Streetcars re-introduction – part of development plans
• Carpool -lanes
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Example: waste-smart
• NY 75% waste divert from landfill –
recycling, compost collection
• NY licensed waste hauls data used for
sanitation inspections:95 % success
rate
• LA Blue Bin School Recycling 10 school
in 2015, 684 in 2014, 2 billion USD
saving
• San Francisco: recycling compost and
landfill
• California (2014) total ban of plastic
bags
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Examples: energy
• SF, Seattle real time data and advice on energy use to
consumers
• NY solar roof maps
• SF over 100 electric charging stations
• Seattle City light – city’s own smart metering system,
Partnering with Microsoft : High-Performance Building
Program.
• Demand –response: financial incentive for participating in
peak demand decrease.
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Examples: embrace technology
Build on tech community:
•NYC, SF made all public data (big data) accessible for business
purposes
•Bring in the solutions from the world BigApp and WorldtoNYC.
Competition (NYC)
Enabling interaction - concentration-innovation clusters:
•Boston – Kendell Square, NY – Brooklyn High Tech Triangle,
Applied Sciences Campus
Full measure-real time data:
•NYC Hudson Yard
•San Jose – Green Vision goals
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Examples: embrace technology
Open government:
•Cisco: interactive platform/touchscreens (NYC, Boston, etc)
New York, SF open public big data
Government - combine data:
•NY:Waste and building inspection based on combined data
Citizen engagement:
•Boston: application used by citizens reporting road concerns
•Alamenda/Calif: Budget Challenge
Public-smart
City wifi networks: NYC and SF (Market Street 3 miles of free
wifi) – public payphones turned into WIFI hotspots.
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Examples: etc
Taxation: Seattle – taxbreak for business/citizens investing into
environmentally friendly
Consumer behavior change:
Water waste: Portland – smart metering and feedback system
Energy efficiency data, feedback and information (Seattle, NYC)
Create community/green space:
make pedestrian friendly, park NY within 10 min (NY)
Public-private partnership: IBM, Alcatel-Lucent, Accenture, ABB,
Cisco, Cubic, Honeywell, Intel, Siemens and Oracle, Microsoft
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Challange: we’re not quite there yet.
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Scaling up, spread and adapt solutions
Go beyond borders
Open database – government approach?
Even if smart solutions help in management: basic
infrastructure remain the same
Data privacy and information security
Accountability: where is the boarder- internalization
Is sustainable livable?: be smarter to become greater
How to measure?
• Should majors rule the world????
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Thank you for your attention!
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