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The social design methods menu Kimball. Dialogue mapping overview (Conklin) TED co-founder launches an observatory for the largest cities on Earth. By Richard Byrne Reilly TED co-founder Richard Saul Wurman’s Urban Observatory is now a virtual reality.
The Urban Observatory is a multi-media interactive exhibit culled from big data that is displayed on screens to let viewers compare and contrast data from the world’s largest cities. Fifty-five of the world’s largest metropolitan cities shared their data to create what Wurman is calling the globe’s first real public observatory. Early Warning Signs in Social-Ecological Networks. A number of social-ecological systems exhibit complex behaviour associated with nonlinearities, bifurcations, and interaction with stochastic drivers.
These systems are often prone to abrupt and unexpected instabilities and state shifts that emerge as a discontinuous response to gradual changes in environmental drivers. Predicting such behaviours is crucial to the prevention of or preparation for unwanted regime shifts. Recent research in ecology has investigated early warning signs that anticipate the divergence of univariate ecosystem dynamics from a stable attractor. To date, leading indicators of instability in systems with multiple interacting components have remained poorly investigated. Seeking Community. Tamarack Learning Centre - Learn about Community Collaboration, Poverty Reduction, Leadership. Public Sphere Project. CUSP-Lectures. I am giving two lectures which are Sessions 9 and 10 in the Foundations of Urban Science Course at CUSP: Center for Urban Science and Progress in the Fall of 2013.
An outline of the course is given below so you can see my two lectures in context. The two lectures as PDF files can be accessed by clicking on the images below. If you click on the PDF Icon, this will give you the detailed instructions on the assignment and if you click on the Excel Icon, you will load the spreadsheet of the data that includes all the material you will need. Of you have any issues, then email me at m.batty@ucl.ac.uk. Background Reading. Against the Smart City. Absolutely the best thing to read on the corporate hype and innuendos from the big computer companies pedalling the idea of ‘the smart city’.
Adam Greenfield’s new book – that you can only get on Kindle and which was my first Kindle purchase that I read on my iPad (a success I must say) – is a wonderful and eloquent essay on the extreme hype surrounding the top down new town-like smart cities of Songdo (in South Korea), Masdar (in the UAE), PlanIT Valley (near Paredes in Portugal). He also comments on Singapore, Rio de Janeiro and some of the other established cities who are injecting automation into their urban services and other functions from the top down. His message is that most of the smart cities hype associated with IBM, Cisco, and Siemens amongst others which he recounts in detail is based on the most simplistic of notions as to what a city actually is. There is a nice summary on the Urban Omnibus Blog But Against the Smart City comes with a warning. Against the Smart City. On November 6th, we will co-host a talk by writer and urbanist Adam Greenfield at the New Museum entitled “Another City is Possible: Alternatives to the Smart City.”
The event marks the release of Greenfield’s new pamphlet, “Against the smart city,” the first installment of his forthcoming book The City is Here for You to Use, in which he challenges the prevalent cultural understanding of the current deployment and proposed possibilities of networked information technology. The potential of the devices and information now available is rich, but our awareness of the powerful ways in which these systems and their use will alter our world — our policies, economies, built environment, and, in Greenfield’s words, “the structure and content of our own psyches” — is limited.
What follows is an excerpt from “Against the smart city.” The smart city pretends to an objectivity, a unity and a perfect knowledge that are nowhere achievable, even in principle. [1] Siemens Corporation. . [10] See, e.g. Rittel+Webber+Dilemmas+General_Theory_of_Planning. Pillar Nonprofit Network. MaRS Discovery District. Community%20informatics%20in%20tourism. 36.1%20Intro_Pigg%202004. Itidjournal. Research note: Measuring the globalization of knowledge: The case of community informatics.