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Smart Cities Smart Citizens Smart Planners
Michael Batty
Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis CASA-UCL
[email protected] @jmichaelbatty
Future City Summit
October 23rd 2014
Let me begin by showing you how we can see London as a
pumping heart with two massive spikes of energy during the day
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This has only become possible quite recently due to new ‘big’
data from the ‘smart city’
We now have quite simple models that explain how cities grow as the
product of millions of individual decisions built from the bottom up.
Cities are thus ‘emergent
phenomena’, And what difference then will new technologies make to
these patterns
Most of these contemporary technologies let us communicate
differently and these generate different network patterns
And ‘smart cities’ are all about new technologies - shifting information rather than energy, and changing
our behaviours in the process
In the future, smart cities are really about how we use these
technologies to advantage; how we connect up better
Where we locate and how we build things in the future will depend on
these. The big question is ‘Will all this alter the shape of the city’
So what cities will look like, how they will function, and how we will
visualise them as networks and locations will change in the future.
We do not know how.
There are obvious changes in inequalities. Social media & open
data are essential in understanding.
And for planners these new technologies are not just changing
the city, they are letting us represent, simulate and predict the
future in more effective ways
Through 3D- models, augmented reality, urban simulations, and so on
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By the end of this century we will all be living in cities of one form or another and our behaviour is going to be much changed by
new technologies ….
I think London will still grow and evolve physically and
functionally in the same manner we have shown but ……
Thank You
Michael Batty Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis
CASA-UCL
www.complexcity.info www.spatialcomplexity.info
[email protected] @jmichaelbatty