‘After Kopenhagen’ (2009): Global politics falters …

A PERIOD OF TRANSITION

Smart cities or smart citizens?

http://www.vliegtuigvolger.nl

‘iShack’: off grid development

Enkanini, Capetown

Caught in a Dichotomy?

“Smart cities can reduce greenhouse gas emissions by as

much as 7.8 Gt in 2020”

The World Bank

Too good to be true?

From Smart Cities to Smart Urbanism

20th Cent. urbanism, a brief reminder

The Need for a Globally Networked Urbanism

KNOW YOUR URBAN METABOLISMS

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IABR 2014:

‘Urban by Nature’

SMART URBANISM

WASTE 01: scale

WASTE 02: flows

WASTE 03: infrastructure

WASTE 04: European comparison

WASTE 05: global issues

DECOUPLING AS STRATEGIC PERSPECTIVE

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Infrastructure is crucial … but always has a Default

3.

Infrastructure sets defaults

Hard infra: influences routines day by day

Soft infra: rules enable or constrain

Cultural: habits

CONNECT LEARNING TO PUBLIC EXPERIENCE

5.

Picture: David Laws

Urban Infrastructure -

a $30 to $50 trillion investment over the next 20 years

Booz Allen Hamilton, Boston Consultancy Group, World Bank

So:

• If we need something ‘smart’, it is a smart urbanism & new normative ideas of the city

• We need a globally networked urbanism if we want to allow the Global South a ‘leap frog’ into sustainable cities

• As infrastructures sets defaults, make sure that they deliver what you want them to achieve to the city

It all begins with data…

•… but ultimately we need more collaboration: What are the coalitions that can make a smart urbanism work?

•What are the opportunities & pitfalls?

•How to spot ‘lock ins’, avoid new ones, illuminate new potentials for human growth?

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