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Creating smart, sustainable and inclusive cities through innovative civic engagement

Dave CarterHonorary Knowledge Exchange Fellow, Planning & Environmental

Management (2014-). Co-Lead, Smart & Sustainable Cities,

Manchester Urban Institute,

University of Manchester (UK)Head, Manchester Digital Development Agency - MDDA (2004-14)

Head, Economic Development (2002-04)

Economic Development Officer (1987-2002)

Manchester City Council

Manchester City Region

• Manchester a city of 530,000+ and growing• Greater Manchester (ten boroughs / local authorities)

2.75 million people (1,276 sq. km.)

Cottonopolis... the ‘original modern’ industrial city

Manchester – a city of ideas, innovation and social movements• “Peterloo” and Chartists (1819-1834)

- winning the right to vote

• The world’s first passenger railway in 1830

• The Co-operative movement established in 1844

• Trade unions – the Trade Union Congress (TUC) in 1868

• The Manchester Ship Canal in 1894

• The fight for womens suffrage (1903-)

• Rolls meets Royce in 1904

• The world’s first computer (with a stored program) in 1946

• Graphene is invented at Manchester University in 2004

1970s and 80s – 20+ years of economic decline

1981 riots

https://www.newhistorian.com/1981-summer-riots-london-manchester/6810/

https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2011/dec/09/riots-1981-2011-differences

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moss_Side

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1981_Brixton_riot

… and a search for some solutions for urban regeneration

The 1996 bomb• 15th June 1996 – huge bomb devastates Manchester city Centre http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4EoXH1ju_0• 40% of retail space wiped out• Damage put at £700M (little insurance)• £83 Million public money given which levered in another £500M• Viewed by city leaders as an opportunity for redevelopment

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The 2017 bomb - in memory of the victims of the Manchester bomb –May 22nd 2017 (Tony Walsh, Manchester Poet)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Walsh_(poet) (live TV broadcast at Vigil, the next day)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JiLXFvACVuY (photo montage – history of Manchester)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zQGZUQtZM4 (Manchester DJs Remix)

Manchester Today...• Dealing with post-industrialisation and Modernist architectural ‘solutions’• Key infrastructures: new tram network, regional and national rail, new logistics hubs, Airport expansion, “Airport City”, digital – fibre & wireless inc. 5G• Manchester continues to be transformed – current economic decline is creating further challenges

• Localised deprivation• Job uncertainties• Economic and social polarisation, including homelessness

Innovation and Economic Development• Digital pioneers influenced the City’s Economic Development Strategy from 1989 onwards:

• Manchester Host – UK’s first public access computer communications and on-line information system –launched in 1991

• Electronic Village Halls – neighbourhood based ICT access centres: 1992-

• Manchester Community Information Network (MCIN) launched in 1994

• Digital Arts Projects – Digital Summer 1998 celebrating the 50 years since the launch of the world’s first real computer (with memory) in Manchester

• 1990s – convergent creative, cultural & digital agendas, including Manchester as an “Information City” predating ideas of a “Digital City” or “Smart City” – Manchester’s role in launch of .coop

• 1993/4 – founder member of Telecities and the Inter-Regional Information Society Initiative (IRISI)

• 2000s - Open networks, open source, open data – Manchester Living Lab Network and links with European Smart Cities Network

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Policy drivers:Smart City Agendas• UN Agenda 21 – ’smart growth’ 1992• https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/content/documents/Agenda21.pdf

• Telecities (part of Eurocities) set up in 1993• https://cordis.europa.eu/news/rcn/3414_en.html

• http://www.eurocities.eu/eurocities/home

• European Inter-Regional Information Society Initiative (IRISI) 1994

• UK Digital Strategy 2005

• Digital Agenda for Europe 2010

https://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/en

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Smart, inclusive & sustainable growth• Green & Digital• Transformational services• e-Government to Smart Government• Future Internet enabled services in Smart Cities• Web 2.0 https://www.oreilly.com/pub/a/web2/archive/what-is-web-20.html

• Participative (or Participatory) and Social Web, emphasising user-generated content, usability (ease of use), participatory culture, peer-to-peer (P2P) services and interoperability

• Internet of Things (IoT) + Cloud + Open Data +

3D printing + nano.........

• Beyond Web 2.0 – Artificial Intelligence (AI),

Blockchain, Augmented & Virtual Reality (AR/VR)

Smart cities – something missing?

Where are the people?Urban living - realities and complexities

https://www.nesta.org.uk/report/rethinking-smart-cities-from-the-ground-up/

http://liveablecities.org.uk/

Networking Living Labs and Creative Spaces• City + University + Business + Community -

Partnership• Supporting the delivery of the “Our

Manchester” strategy and local smart city demonstrator projects

Manchester: A Smart CityMeeting new challenges – partnership with the public, private and community sectors

http://triangulum-project.eu/

https://synchronicity-iot.eu/

Manchester’s Internet of Things Demonstratorhttp://www.cityverve.org.uk

• UK Government funded IoT cities national demonstrator

• 2 Year programme July 2016 – June 2018

• £16M investment

• 21 delivery partners

• 2km2 Innovation Corridor

See.Sense cycling sensors project

https://seesense.cc/pages/manchester

https://cityverve.org.uk/seeing-benefits-bicycle-sensors/

• Sensing obstacles and road quality• Crowdsourcing data for future planning and safety

“The City as public good” http://www.cityofsound.com/blog/2013/02/on-the-smart-city-a-call-for-smart-citizens-instead.html

• redefining smart cities for smart citizens

• engaging with citizens and generating awareness

• linking smart business with smart consumers

• demonstrating practical improvements in quality of life

• making smart cities fun

Living Labs – user driven open innovationhttps://enoll.org/

• MIT Media Lab Smart Cities Research Group: Prof. Bill Mitchell (1945-2010)http://news.mit.edu/2010/obit-mitchell

• Intelcities Project (2001-2005): City of Helsinki, Nokia Research + Manchester: City as a “Living Lab”

• European Network of Living Labs (ENoLL) set up in 2007: 20 cities, now 200+

• Towards a new definition of ‘Smart Cities’ with people at the centre – example of an EU funded project coordinated by the City of Manchester: “SMARTiP: Smart Metropolitan Areas Realised Through Innovation & People”

https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/document/smartip-smart-metropolitan-areas-realised-through-innovation-people-smartip

Working Futures for Future Cities• Economic change: an ongoing challenge for local

economic development and regeneration

• Impacts of accelerating automation, robotics and artificial intelligence (AI)

• Time lags between job losses and new job gains

• Lack of public policy measures to mitigate change

• Is an Industrial Strategy enough?

“Automation will affect one in five jobs across the UK, says study”https://www.theguardian.com/business/2017/oct/16/automation-jobs-uk-robots

Creative thinking for smart cities• Challenging new orthodoxies

• Recalling, reimagining & remixing radical pasts

• Small can still be beautiful

• Creative skills and action rather than a “creative class”

• ‘Post-work: the radical idea of a world without jobs’https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/jan/19/post-work-the-radical-idea-of-a-world-without-jobs The Guardian. 19th. Jan. 2018

http://www.autonomyinstitute.org/

Rethinking Work:The Autonomy Institute

Smart practical lessons for the cities of now

• Planning for change: new collaborations thinking about future scenarios

• Jobs and skills in transition: access to training and start up opportunities

• Spaces to experiment: co-working, co-production, co-location

• Public engagement: participatory planning, budgeting and service delivery

• Change leaders and mentors: find and support committed people from the city/region, business, not-

for profit sectors as well as from local communities

• New urban environments: innovative and participatory design to create new urban areas and spaces for

creating parts of the ‘future city’ today (or tomorrow …)

• Creativity as catalyst: thinking innovation and technology through the eyes, minds and hands of people

engaging in art, culture, creative practice and having fun …

Creativity as catalyst

IERC

Smart Cities – good practice examples

Mobility, energy, smart buildings,lighting, e-health, service assistants, sensors, mobile, flexible working, e-learning, open data, Living Labs, e-infrastructures, e-government …….

IERC

Networking the networks

• Connected Smart Cities Network –

Open & Agile Smart Cities (OASC)http://oascities.org/

http://openlivinglabs.eu/news/connected-smart-cities-conference-2017

• Future Internet

EUROCITIES, European Network of Living Labs (ENoLL), Future

Internet Assembly (FIA), Digital Agenda for Europe• www.eurocities.eu

• www.openlivinglabs.eu

• www.future-internet.eu

• https://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/en/europe-2020-strategy

• Smart Cities & Communities• http://ec.europa.eu/eip/smartcities/

Thank You!dave.carter@manchester.ac.uk

http://www.mui.manchester.ac.uk/research/themes/smart-cities-and-transitions/