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URBAN RESILIENCE
FOR EQUITABLE CITIES
Juan José Cue
Secretary of Innovation
City of Puebla, México
Smart foundation
FOUNDATION:
1531 as “La Puebla de Los Angeles”
PROYECT:
1. A planned city, a need for a Spanish settlement
bewteen Mexico City and the port of Veracruz.
2. A logistics hub between the Gulf of Mexico
(Veracruz) and the Pacific Ocean (Acapulco)
LOGISTIC HUB:
“Panama´s Canal” for the New Spain Colonial Empire.
“For almost 300 hundred years worlds commerce
between Europe and Asia went through Puebla”
Datos Generales
Smart Foundation
Strategic location
Developed city
CATHEDRAL, with the tallest belltowers in Latin America
LA CONSTANCIA MEXICANA, the
first textile factory in Latin America
PUEBLA´S MAIN THEATER, is
the oldest theater in America
still in operation.
“Puebla is Cultural Heritage of
Humanity; it has the largest historic
center in America with over 2,600 sites
catalogued by UNESCO” (1987)
Strategic location
United States of America
Nuevo Laredo
Veracruz
Manzanillo
Mexico City
39.5 million people live within
124 miles of the City of Puebla.
Puebla
Guatemala
State Population: 6 million
City of Puebla Population: 1.6 million
2,100 meters Above Sea Level
38% of the National GDP is
produced in this area.
Important investments
Human capital
A safe place to live
Open government
Why become Smart?
SMART CITY PUEBLA
Initiative
Concepto Smart City
“The world is experiencing a period of extreme urbanization. In China alone, 300 million
rural inhabitants will move to urban areas over the next 15 years” MIT Media Lab – City
Science Initiative
Social Inequality
The City of Puebla has the largest number of people
in poverty in Mexico.
The municipalities with the largest number of people in poverty in 2010
PUEBLA
IZTAPALAPA
ECATEPEC
LEON
TIJUANA
CD JUAREZ
CD NEZA
TOLUCA
ACAPULCO
GUSTAVO MADERO - DF
732,154
727,128
723,559
600,145
525,769
494,726
462,405
407,691
405,499
356,328
Barcelona = Smart City
Working with the experts
Social inequality
Road Map
Smart City
Road Map
“Equitable City”
Social inequality
Mobile Food Units
Social inequality
Pink Rooms
Innovation
Open Science Labs
Science and Weather Sensors
Public Services
Internet Free Access
Mobility
Expand Smart Bike Project for june 2015 (+2,000
bikes)
Mobility
First city in Mexico to sign with WAZE (oct 2014)
Resilience
Earthquake Early
Warning System
“Hosting this international event in our city should
provide us with the tools to promote social equity in
all Latinamerican cities“
Tony Gali, Mayor of Puebla
Smart City Puebla