smart city, related to urban vitality and social capital

‘To know the path, is to rule the system’understanding Urban Vitality, for socio-economic value capturing & social capital is crucial

Ir. Peter G. de Bois, Architect & Urban Designer

(Em) Professor. Delft University of Technology & University of Applied Sciences Amsterdam

Editor in Chief ‘Vital City’ Magazine Member AoU, Academy of Urbanism London Dir. Office4UrbanreSearchUrban-knowledge platform

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explaining whyTo know the path is to rule the system

Urban Vitality

is based on

an effective inter-relation between

spatial, economical and social urban systems

2005 © de Bois, Delft University of Technology

whyUrban Vitality

derives from the capacity of cities

to maintain their spatial conditions for urban quality

throughout a constant process of conscious re-validation

for societal innovation

spatial transition and flexibility in time

the worldGlobal threats local impacts

Extreme diaspora to Urban areas specifically harbour city’s

6.5 milliard now, 9 milliard in the near future

2% of surface is urban, needing 75% of all sources

300.000 people a day coming to cities

Extreme unbalance and concentration of people

More people inside this circle than outside

Extreme geographical flow’s, production is footloose

Knowledge is sustain

Extreme youth -15 | 24- unemployment up to 23,5%

Drain of social kapital

Extreme differences in democratic & economic systems

(Un) Predictable players

Extreme unbalance in access to food, water and minerals

There is a BIG slow war going on in 25 area’s, political powers using religion as leverage

The Netherlands second biggest export of vegetables in the world

Global treats for world peace

Extreme differences in human rights and emancipation

Secularisation versus democracy

Extreme differences in perception about income and wealth

1% has 40% of wealth

what we consider ideal what we think the truth

Extreme spatial separation & social-economic segregation

Income differences, 1 to 400……… the gap between the elite and the common people

Need reflection & actualisation of the concept of:

liberté - égalité - fraternité

Extreme waste of natural resources, related to extended land use

The paradigm of individualism, collectivism and totalitarianism

the cityGlobal paradigms, local impacts

Extreme urban expansion & physical fragmentation

Physical en functional divisions, socio economic fragmentation

Extreme loss of socio-economic support basis in public domain

The price for adapting a non-generic urban planning doctrine

New centre of Saint-Dié based on CIAM rules and historical centre of Parma

Extreme decrease of value of public space and private property

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Diminishing economic support basis in daily urban system

Extreme loss of local values due to global financial derivatives

Financial perversion on derivatives 550.000 billion SWAPS yearly, 550.000.000.000.000400 billion SWAPS per day, 400.000.000.000

Perversion of our liberal society

the societyGlobal developments local impacts

Extreme governance downfall of our welfare state

195020182008

rise and fall of collective governance

transitionThe assignment for a vital society in the 21th century

is urgent on three levels of interest

The balance between individualism en collectivism:

About learning to live with uncertaintyAbout interactions between our virtual, mental en physical worldAbout less ownership and more sharingAbout more the bottom up and less top down

Need to focus on:

Individual development | consciousnessMaking choices | giving place | connecting | quality of the city Societal awareness | participation | local societyLocal collectivism | sharing power | ownership

The assignment for a vital society 3.0

2013 Based on Prof. Jan Rotmans

The importance of, sustainable value capturing;

About co-creation and circular processAbout community based business en social cost benefits

Need to focud on:

Bounding and bridging of values in time and space | transparency | political consensusLocale coordination of investments | making value creation physical

The assignment for a vital society 3.0

The quest for, Quality of life:

About the value of lifeAbout trust in society and here leadersAbout room for individual identity and ideasAbout freedom of being

Need to focus on:

Personal reflection | mindfulness | daily urban system | locale identityEmpowerment | re-democratization | transparencies | citizenshipIntegration | validation | community building | empowermentCommunity | safety | being in charge

The assignment for a vital society 3.0

Resume:

Guarding the quality of:

The liberal democracyThe sharing welfare and ideasThe societal participation and social capitalThe inter-connection of virtual, mental en physical content of lifeThe implementation of circular economyThe integration of smart and clean technology

The assignment for a effective and vital society 3.0

whyUrban Vitality

is a precondition

for socio-economic value capturing

essential for

social capital, socio economic benefits & good citizenship

smart cityTo know the path is to rule the system

whySmart cities, urban vitality

statementUrbanVitality is an essential precondition

for the socio-economic existence of the smart city

Smart economy is about

The innovation of society

Smart flows and places for the daily urban system

Smart Cities are key elements in world economy

They derive from multiple flows of values

facilitated through concentrated networks of smart people

through socio-economic coincidence & confrontation

through economic synergy & creative thinking

Smart people make Vital Cities

Smart people like and need smart Cities

howGlobal technology local transition

Hardware makes us software

Context related action

Instant democracy

Understanding processes, tracking Garbage

Understanding processes, tracking Garbage

Flickr and Twitter

1.800.000.000 pictures shared on internet every day, connecting the virtual, mental and physical world of daily urban life

Mood twitters, understanding happiness or dispair

Bottom-up governance

We are software

We are the cloud

whatSpatial urban rules are about

our ‘daily urban system’, the ‘time-space’ budget

Its about context

knowing where you are

Real-time ‘daily urban’ system Amsterdam by GPS research

© WAAG society 2001

Individual spatial circuits in a parallel urban network

Its about motive

understanding why

Copyright © Joosten, Victor, Shops and Blocks, how block typologie influences the naturel movement economic proces, Berlin and Amsterdam, Delft University of Technology 2005

Amsterdam central area

position of retail, urban network, block and density relations

Photo streams Flickr, - tourists red- locals yello- Regionals bleu in Amsterdam central area

1.800.000.000 pictures shared on internet every day, connecting the virtual, mental and physical world of ‘daily urban’ life

© Erik Fisher

places of interest

Its about

the fit between

time‘urban flows’

space ‘urban places’

Representing the perception of our position in space

Facilitating ‘flows’ between ‘places’ in the urban network

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People like to flow in circuits

People like to flow in circuits, GPS research City Centre Haarlem

whatParameters for urban vitality

Parallel urban networks for variation of flows

providing socio-economic coincidence & support on urban places

Parallel contra Serial urban networks

Serial URBAN system by planning like New Towns

Weak support basis

Parallel URBAN system by organic developmentlike Amsterdam

Strong support basis

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Facilitating the overlap for socio-economic encounter, support basis for social capital

Parallel contra Serial urban networks

Facilitating the overlap for socioeconomic encounter and social cost benefits

Connecting the top –global- and the bottom –local- urban network by aINTRA net, connecting supply & demand

Supporting socio-economic demands byphysical connections, immediate context and precondition for FLOWS & PLACES

Smart technology for urban life and quality of vital cities

Variation of places, anchor points- shopping streets and malls, - parks,- squares, - harbours - sport facilities etc

Support basis - multifunctional densities on private domain and- intense use on public domain

Condensed spatial conditions on the parallel system

Variation of flows- streets, - alleys, - boulevards - (park) lanes, - canals etc

Variation of flows in a parallel urban network

2007 © Ir. E Stolk TUDelft 2009 © Ir. P. G. de Bois

Parallel URBAN flows and places alternating development

1994 © Ir. P. G. de Bois TUDelft

9th century

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20th century

By-pass A16Connecting A4

21th century

In The Hague these destinations comprise: (1) the coastal area; (2) the beach and the pier of Scheveningen; and (3) the city centre with the Parliament buildings, the city squares and shopping area, the tram tunnel, the City Hall and the theatre area.

In Delft these are: (4) the connection across the highway to IKEA, the recreation area of the "Delftse Hout" and the connection to the dwelling areas of Pijnacker. Further along the line lies the landscape area of "Midden Delfand" (Central Delfland)

And eventually in Rotterdam there can be found: (5)Aeroport, "Blijdorp" Zoo; (6) the City Hall with a number of squares including the cultural area around the "Doelen"; (7) the new "Koopgoot" shopping area; (8) the river fronts, the "Maasbrug" (Meuse Bridge) and "Maasboulevard" Meuse Boulevard) and the recentdevelopments on the "Kop van Zuid" pensinsula; (9) the "Zuidplein" (South Square) as centre of Rotterdam South; and eventually (10) the landscape area south of Rotterdam.

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Upcoming transition of the A13

Urban ‘places’ already existing on the urban corridor A13

Coolsingel, 4 episoden

Transition of flows, change of place

howKnowledge about urban systems

Understanding ‘flow’ connection of the city market ‘places’

© Ir. P. G. de Bois 2011

Analysis of the (inter)relation ‘flow’s’ between urban anchor points ’places’

Stepping stone relation “Markets” in the city and the extended areas

Understanding the hierarchy of the urban network

Understanding ‘steppingstones’ of urban places ‘anchor points’

Amsterdam Rotterdam

© Ir. P. G. de Bois 2011

The stepping stone relation between anchor points, ‘places’, derives from the quality of the bounding and bridging condition in the ‘flows’ system of the urban network

Analysis of the (inter)relation ‘flow’s’ between urban anchor points ’places’

Understanding ‘complex urban systems

Reconnecting Copenhagen Ørestad , NON plase of the city

Ørestad Copenhagen making the SLOW RING by flows & places

Activating existing beach Connect urban Anchor points by missing links

Ørestad Copenhagen making the SLOW RING by flows & places

Missing links in the local urban network

Concept of the new urban ‘flow’ system

Ørestad Copenhagen concept of the SLOW RING

The Bridge to connect the SLOW RING

Urban Design flows & places

Ørestad Copenhagen, connections effects & social cost benefits

Connecting knowledge understanding Urban Vitality

From this table I wish you a nice and vital day, meet you at

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