Intel, in partnership with Imperial university and University College, will use London as a lab for testing tech for future cities. 
@manufernandez It is likely you have heard about this project of building a new city from scratch to test new urban technologies, but no people will be living there. In fact, we first heard about it some months ago (I wrote some paragraphs linking this with my memories from Dead cities and other tales, by Mike Davis, in which he depicts the construction of a german town in Utah to test the destruction potential of city centres aerial bombing). 
Hace ya unos meses que dediqué unos párrafos a lo que por entonces era sólo un proyecto en sus primeros inicios: un laboratorio urbano sin personas en medio del desierto de Nuevo México. Entre otras cosas, ya vimos que estos mega-escenarios no son unos desconocidos en la historia. Ahora sabemos un poco más y vuelve a celebrarse acríticamente en los medios y las redes sociales, que se hacen eco de esta iniciativa 
Como esta es la primera edición de URBAPPS, queremos empezar de forma abierta y seguro que en sesiones posteriores podemos focalizar más (en temas y tecnologías), pero siempre trabajando en aplicaciones para la sostenibilidad de la ciudad en términos amplios. Se trata de abordar la capacidad de movilización cívica que los usuarios de dispositivos móviles tienen a la hora de incidir en la identificación de problemas urbanos, en compartir experiencias, en el control ciudadano de datos públicos, en la generación de soluciones colectivas, etc. 
Interaction designers can shape “smart” urban environments... For many people, the draw of cities is their pulse and flow, the veer and crush of humans, our shared machines, the vertical, the symmetrical, the seemingly impossible. We connect, go forward, are thrust. We revel in the contrasts of urban materials—steel, stone, leaf, blade, glass, branch, Plexiglas, vinyl, flesh. The sheer matrix of it, the complexity of relationships and their potential outcomes, is almost a will unto itself, compelling us to be shaped, inviting us to form and move with it.
Via Lauren Moss, paradoxcity, Manu Fernandez 
These observations will surely seem naive, but I cannot resist sharing them. In the face of the abundance of sophisticated promises surrounding the idea of the intelligent city, to offer up daily anecdotes as proof that the intelligent city goes beyond the idea of technology could appear frivolous. 
At the MakerBot headquarters in Brooklyn you can find this rather peculiar vending machine. It doesn’t sell Snickers, Mars and Nuts, but open source electronics instead. 
Here is a selection of some work I find suggestive as good examples of how to visualize the intensity of urban life in video format or as interactive web tools. I have chosen from the archives only a few examples that seem interesting, so I welcome other contributions that you know (and take a lok at this recent compilations to find other examples: London: A Year in Maps and The best of 2011 from Spatial Analysis): 
SalonYour next mayor: A computerSalonTechnology is helping cities control everything from traffic to disease. But who should control the technology? 
Llevaba un tiempo queriendo comentar algo en el blog sobre URBAPPS, una iniciativa que estamos impulsando y tratando de concretar desde hace unas semanas. Junto a David y Ainara, la idea de organizar un taller sobre aplicaciones móviles para la mejora de las ciudades ha ido tomando forma. Empezar simple y dejar que crezca la cosa si va ganando sentido, porque queremos que esta edición en Valladolid sea sólo el punto de no retorno para impulsar otras cosas que están en la recámara. 
We have all experienced “dehumanizing” technology – software or hardware that seems to diminish our ability to communicate with others or to function effectively in the world. Libelium presented a catalogue of sensor applications in areas such as smart cities, smart environment, smart water, smart energy metering, security, retai (50 Sensor Applications for a Smarter World http://t.co/ie3uszsW...)... |
This video provides examples and testimonials from cities and city stakeholders all over Europe about how to create a Smart City. Prof. Nicos Komninos, the. 
What is the impact of digital technology on the city and its architecture? 
What is a user-friendly city? We say that the iPhone is user-friendly, but what about Washington, D.C. or Madrid? The concept of designing from a user-centric perspective is common in the creation ... RT @lowresolution: The future of the city: special digital issue. 
RT @manufernandez: [New post] The intelligence of a city is on the streets http://t.co/2UVI1B3M #smartcities... The real intelligence of cities lies is in the almost miraculous, unstable, spontaneous order of city life. The social relationships between people generate the functional intelligence of cities. Imperfect, conflicting, disastrous at times, always open to improvement. Technology only facilitates certain processes, and the logic of collective life will defeat any attempt to implement systems that exceed the required level of sophistication. The technology which gives intelligence to the city and makes things work is invisible and has to do with diversity, reciprocal trust, finding another or the ability to appropriate and build the city together. Technological determinism inevitably collides with the unpredictability and complexity of urban life if technologically sophisticated top-down strategies are employed at a time, furthermore, of budget constraints for local authorities. 
Modulated Cities: redefinition of privacy in the age of big data and networked spaces http://t.co/ku4MukWS (HT @nicolasnova)... 
@manufernandez has gathered together a collection of visualisations highlighting the intensity of urban activity in cities around the world. RT @living_cities: 3 Factors to Build Digital NYC Govt by @rachelsterne http://t.co/7rwydoxC Find Pockets of Innovation, Listen to Public... Underscores importance of data to nyc tech. 
Thanks to architect and urban economist Isabel Carreras-Baquer (who participated in the inaugural Anam Rurban Design Workshop), we presented Anam City at the 2011 Smart City Expo in Barcelon... 
The Automation of Rio: Smart City or Digital Tyranny? This paper focuses on how European cities are currently developing strategies towards becoming “smarter cities” and the lessons we can draw for the future. |
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