So now that we've covered a lot of the background
in the context for smart cities in the Urgent, urgency
for new solutions to solve a
lot of these urgent problems. I
think it's important to kind of First Take take a moment and really introduce
you to some real examples of what
smart cities are into concrete models
and references to for you to see and
The in understand what different countries
are doing, what different governments are
doing in and around the theme of smart city. So
in this section video 1.2, we're going to look
at five examples. Two of them are based here in the Netherlands and
three are international. But just
in these five examples, you will see immediately that ever
City in the richness of different kinds of ways that governments
and countries are
approaching smart cities and Smart City.
Development. A lot of it as you'll see is very, very
early stage, but nevertheless, there are providing
lots of viable solutions for a more livable future
together.
This first example is Singapore, the small city-state in
the east Southeast. Asia is population of
5.5 million. But since it's such a small island,
it's the second largest population density in the world. Singapore
has a lot of money in their investing, heavily
into digital society and digital economy issues that
hope to solve many of
the urban challenges facing this small island. The
entire country relies heavily heavily heavily on the
government. That puts them
Assists on sustainability. So
in other words, the Smart City kind of strikes, the balance
between the digital built in the natural environments and
four cities. This becomes a much more inclusive
and more livable way of Designing planning and
facilitating your city. So
it's a nice example of how the government with a Clear
Vision and clear mandate can invest heavily from the
top down perspective. It
makes making sure that there's an ecosystem.
Creating a healthy balance of technology and ecology
that achieves a much more sustainable and
livable City.
The next example is, of course, my favorite that's only because I
live in Amsterdam, but Amsterdam
is a fun example because it's not
tech-driven. It's it's more of a kind of
pragmatic bottom-up, Grassroots approach
to building in these Technologies into its
built infrastructure so that it's not tech-driven but
it's people driven. And a
lot of the Innovation that comes comes out of the cities or funded by
the government. However,
Developed by local startups entrepreneurs
and small businesses and
they do it in a way that is about kind of experimentation
by Design. So quick prototypes to
understand the value of these Technologies with the citizens and
have those discussions and and
it's all packaged in this kind of very historic,
very famous built environment
called called Amsterdam and where the
citizens are definitely at its core.
Or and we are trying to find ways
to make it more perfect future city.
The next example is the most infamous
example, some of you may have heard this in the news but sidewalk
Labs is a sister
company of Google. And they
had his vision to create a
whole new city in the East Waterfront
East Wharf, area of Toronto and
it was going to be built from the internet up and so it was a 12-acre site
on the, on the waterfront.
Thomas, uh, sustainable mixed-use, missed mixed income neighborhoods
to a new level community and it
won the tender from the government because
it was based on this kind of very radical concept of
how to Future District make and create
a more livable inner-city. I'll
get more into this later in the next sections, but this
didn't fly with with
a, with the citizens of Toronto because
They didn't trust Google enough with
what they were going to be doing with all of this surveillance. And
and all this data collecting. Was
it really going to be livable? Or was it going to be for profit?
So this next example of a smart city, of course, another
Dutch example here in the Netherlands. It's called the brainport a
smart district and it's a smart City District in
the city of Helmand. And that's home.
Decloak, quite close to. I ain't over, which is home
to the Phillips, famous Phillips Corporation in
the Technical University of I ain't OVA. So
this district is also home
to many other types of innovation kinds
of campuses, which makes up the entire.
Brainport as they call it. And the first one of
the most important campuses to mention is the automotive campus, which
is that place where they turn Automotive
Technologies and smart and green Mobility Solutions into
business models. And it's a kind of state-of-the-art technological
test facility in the flexible, accommodation Concepts.
Like I said, it's right
next to the Technical University. I'd over
campus and this is a talent and Technology district for
the city of
Ain't OVA which offers a unique mix
of young talents, Innovation, knowledge, research institutions, high-tech
companies and it's
basically a hot spot where science is meeting
business. Again, the High Tech
campus is another kind of Campus which
is mixing a multinationals knowledge institutions, small
medium, Enterprises startups and
are developing new and Innovation Solutions on
the future of the open Innovation environment.
So it's a kind of, yeah, it kind of
ecosystem that this new district is starting from
and it will be a kind of smart living and working area, which
resides where the residents, basically, play
a central role in development to determine their
own type of living environment, again, super important. And
more of the very Dutch bottom-up approaches and
this kind of co-creation process between
the residents the professionals, and other stakeholders is
taking place literally, again, on a living.
Lab, and and again, this is important. Because in
terms of managing expectations, people are willing to
take risks and try things out and in order to learn things. So,
the realization and development of
the brain, smart district report, smart district is
looking at eight different program lines, which are
circular District, participation social and
safe, District Health District, digital District,
mobile district, and district with energy and district with
water. I'm going to cover
A lot of these Concepts in much more detail in the
in the sections to come.
In this last example, it's fun to look at
concept feature city, which is called Toyota
woven City. So last year, Toyota the
car manufacturing company revealed plans to build a prototype future
city on 175 Acres at
the base of Mount Fuji in to Japan. So a very iconic
and Cultural Center
for the Japanese. It's called the
woven City because it wants to become a fully connected. Ecosystem,
powered by
Hydrogen fuel cells, again, another departure from
the kind of iconographic kind
of solar and Battery types of solutions. Hydrogen
is Japanese will be level fuel
the future. But contrary to say the
last example of the sidewalk
labs in Toronto. This is an
interesting one because it explores the rules of how corporations are
investing in smart cities. It really is a kind of research and
development strategy. That hopefully
Bring lots of benefits to the workers, but also surrounding
communities. So this, this
is a real living laboratory that serves as a full-time resident full-time.
Kind of place for people to live and
research and there'll be able to
test and develop Technologies, like, autonomy robotics
personal ability, Smart Homes in artificial intelligence
in a world world context. So
this is again, helping corporations like Toyota.
Going to go the distance to explore future, Mobility
systems, Energy Systems, and
Delivery Systems Etc. And it's not
just a technocratic kind of solutions is really,
really beautiful and picturesque. You should really check it
out on YouTube if you get a chance and
it was to plan design by the Danish architect Market
angles from big and
he writes that the Technologies are beginning to
radically change. How we have it or
not.
Navigate in our cities and continues say, connected
autonomous, admission, free and shared Mobility systems
are bound to unleash, a world of opportunities for
new forms of urban life, with a breadth of new
technologies and industries, like Toyota, in this case, we
have were able to access and collaborate with
new ecosystems companies and
they believe that they all have unique opportunity to
explore new forms of urbanity with a woven City that
could pave New Paths for other cities.
Score. So again, this is wonderful example of
bit of research and development living lab, but
also becomes a model for future
cities to to look to refer to so
that concludes section 1.2. And
and now I'm going to introduce
you to the deer various smart, see, sectors in
the last examples. Of course, you saw lots of different types
of topics ranging from Mobility Solutions, Energy
Solutions.
Environmental and the social kinds of research
that a lot of these companies and cities are
doing together, but we're going to take them apart and dive
into little bit more detail per section.