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Tale of Two Cities … better choices?
CITIES-as-a-PLATFORM …the BIG-SHIFT?
Smarter? Community Patterns
The cultural evolution to our Anthropocene era tells story-by-story the
incubation of human habitation into scalable urban patterns. Are there
better choices? We’ve had 1 million person cities for 1000 years, and 10
million person cities before cars. How many 100 million cities will we
need to support 10 billion people? China is clustering its economic
development around 20 mega-cities. Who is your city? Community-by-
community my Metro/Portland region has 100 neighborhoods of 10,000
people. What behavior-patterns incubate better places? A Turing-test:
Audubon certification? native Salmon-story?
Vision2020: is this the decade of PEAK?
Q: what does this mean for SmartTransit, SmartGrid, SmartBuilding?
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Peak CAR? … “Telework”!
The New Normal? … better choices
the 80%
Eighty percent of U.S. workers say
they would turn down a job that didn’t
offer flexible working, and it’s so
important to them that more than a
third say they would prioritize such
arrangements over having a more
prestigious role. In another survey,
more than three-fourths of
respondents cited flexible schedules
and remote work as the most
effective nonmonetary ways to retain
employees.
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Peak YOUTH? … “the BIG-SHIFT”!
Tipping? …the Future of Work (healthcare::in-home)
22. Stan Curtis
Leading Smart Cities “protocols”
主导智能城市的协议
Smarter Planet: city-by-city ( 智慧星球) – wrote IBM
business case for “Smarter” CITIES starting with UAE
Masdar and CH2M partnership.
Congress of New Urbanism (智能城市标准协会)–
developed “Better Commons” applying IBM platform
based development approach and analysis of “the Last
mile problem”.
Research Roadmap for Smart Cities Vision (智慧城市
愿景的研究路线图) – advisor to core team developing
“smart” cities vision and research programs for EU.
Eco Districts 1.0 (生态区1.0 标准) – advisor to core
team developing standard “protocols” for community
development. Adopted by GSA, incubated with Japan
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