24th EAROPH World Congress

Towards Resilient & Smart Cities

Hotel Borobudur, Jakarta, 10th-13th August 2014

Presented by

Mr William Lau
Immd Past President, Singapore Institute of Planners (SIP)
Principal of A. Alliance Design International(AADI)


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* Urban Growth
* Global Warming &
Resource Depletion

Urban Growth in the world

* Urban

Population + 2.3 billion

Growth over next 40 years

* 70% Live in Cities

World Population by 2050

In 2012,

26 urban areas ! MEGACITIES

(>10 million people)

!Asia most populous: 60% worlds population

Global Warming & Resource Depletion

Cities consume

* Worlds Energy 75%

* Greenhouse Gases 80%
GHGs Production

Growing Populations vs Scarce Resources

! a "unrecognizable" world by 2050?

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Creative

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From WIKIPEDIA

Effortless
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AVAILABILITY & QUALITY

! KNOWLEDGE

OF INFO

Communication
&

! Social

INFRASTRUCTURE
Intellectual

SOCIAL
CAPITAL

!ICT

: Growing Importance

(Information & Communication Technology)

!Social

& Environmental Capital

Key Performance
Indicators (KPI)

Interplay of people, markets & technology

SMART
CITY

SMART CITIES WHEEL

" Sustainable economy
" High quality of life
" Wise management of
natural resources
" Participatory action

NO ONE CITY

today embody all

these systems &
characteristics
Each city has to
respond to its own
unique environment

TheSmartCities
Hongkong
2. Singapore
3. Seoul
4. Tokyo
5. Auckland
6. Sydney
7. Kuala Lumpur
8. Taipei
9. Shanghai
10. Osaka
1.

Vienna
2. Toronto
3. Paris
4. New York
5. London
6. Berlin
7. Copenhagen
8. Barcelona
9. Munich
10.Frankfurt
1.

Songdo International Business District , Korea

Songdo City, Korea

! 607

Acres (6 km)
! Test bed: new technologies
! Digital form of life
Cisco sold 20,000 units telepresence:
its advanced videoconference system

Every nook & corner

* Wired
* Connected
* Green

Won World Smart Cities Awards at World Smart Cities Forum 2012 for its
Open Data Program for transport & mobility to improve accessibility of city

Future Cities

1. GREENIFICATION
Extract From BBC

! City

of the PAST ! shaped by PEOPLE

! City

of the FUTURE ! shaped by IDEAS

SMARTER = GREENER
Carbon neutral cities:
Electric Vehicles & Bike Share
! Good Air Quality
! Floating Greenhouses in Skycrapers
!

on public transport, walking,

or cycling for transport

! Relies

Vital link
One of Rio's largest slums,
the Complexo do Alemao,
has a 3.5 km-long cable
system that saves residents
hours of journey time to the
main city.

On your bike
Velib bicycle rental
scheme in Paris has been
copied in many cities
worldwide

Day of rest
Cars are banned from
streets of Bogota,
Columbia on Sundays;
city filled with
pedestrians, cyclists &
rollerbladers instead

Hi

Greenhouse
!Everywhere, from Rivers to Rooftops to

Skyscrapers

VERTICALLY INTEGRATED
G R E E N H O U S E
- Buildings with

their walls

farms

that run up

- Hydroponic systems
to 100 feet

rising up

Future Cities

2. Role of Government

Air Citys Secret

!

Good Platform
rather than service provider or vendor

Urban Transport System

! Open
!

Data in transit

Open connectivity

17 February 2013 Last updated at 23:24 GMT

How will our future cities look?

By Jane Wakefield, Technology reporter

Flying'cars'to'avoid'rush2hour?!
Imagine'a'city'of'future.''
Clean'streets,'ying'cars'&'
Robots'doing'all'the'work?'
!

FUTURE CITY PROJECTS

Dolphin watching - in Dublin a scheme
to monitor water quality in Galway Bay by
counting marine life has inspired an app for
fishermen & restaurants to see catch of day

Health care in Honolulu a crowd-sourced

scheme has collated where all defibrillators

are located in buildings around city to offer
immediate help if someone has heart attack

City pulse - Silicon Valley firm

Screampoint developed a city dashboard

Or!perhaps!your!vision!is!more!of!a!
takes the pulse of city from energy usage, to
waste management, to the number of jobs
dystopian,!with!the!Big!Brother7style!!
available. Kansas has one, Amsterdam &
authoritarian! regime,! dark! alleys! full! of! crime,! &! people! forced! to! Barcelona are considering getting one
live!in!herme<cally!sealed!pods!because!war!or!some!other!disaster! Predicting crime - AGT is working with
has!rendered!whole!swathes!of!the!city!unliveable.!
cities around the world to create a picture of
!

What!If?!is!a!season!across!BBC!News!looking!at!visions!of!future.!

how safe a city is at any given time, using

city-wide data & predictive algorithms

No2one'really'knows'what'the'future'beholds.'Reality:''
Now'our'urban'spaces'are'overcrowded'&'polluted.'

Hug a tree - in Madrid there is a scheme

can be moved, depend on need

to have citizens adopt a tree, to make them

more aware of environmental needs

Almost! half! of! world's! popula<on! currently! lives! in! ci<es.! By! 2050! it! is! Algorithmic apartment MIT engineers
projected!to!increase!to!75%,!but!what!kind!of!city!will!they!be!living!in?! are working on homes with robo-walls that

Time' is' ripe' to' start' designing' smarter' urban'

environments,! both! new! ci<es! needed! to! sustain! an! ever7growing!
popula<on,!&!retro7ts!on!the!ones!that!we!have!lived!in!for!centuries.!

Data sharing - Estonia people plan better

for their future, thanks to a system that links
their state & private pensions in one place

7 folding cars =1 parking bay area

Space saver: 2.5m,
shrink to 1.5m when
folded

Electric cars to recharge

while they are moving
via a recharging road.

2002 URA Architectural Heritage Awards

165 PENANG ROAD SINGAPORE

The 2-storey Victorian building

is retained & integrated within
overall envelope of a modern
development spanning over
it, providing a delightful
surprise along busy Road.

In Paris, average citizen spends 4 years of

his life trying to find a parking place

Invest in ICT
Ubiquitous cameras
Traffic management system
monitors traffic flow, detect
congestion, guide parking

New Unprecedented Visibility

Eco-map

tracks greenhouse gas emissions

produced by neighbourhoods

Smart buildings

run heating, lighting or display

systems according to needs

T H A N K

Y O U

Presented By

Mr William Lau
Immd Past President, Singapore Institute of Planners (SIP)
Principal of A. Alliance Design International(AADI)