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Discovering Open Cities Through Open Data With Ben Cave
Discovering Open Cities Through Open Data With Ben Cave
Benjamin Cave
Trainer
10/30/15
@cave_ben
Aim
To equip participants to define open cities and
their key building blocks
Learning Objectives
Define an open smart city
Classify important components of an open smart
city
List 3 building blocks of open smart cities
Apply open city principles to solve city
challenges
Part 1: Definitions
Exercise
Define a Smart
City
Exercis
e
What is the most
important thing to
making a city
smarter?
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Exercise
What role does data
serve in the
infrastructure of a
city?
Part 2: Building
Blocks
Data Infrastructure
Smart Technologies
Transport
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1 Tube
Tube network
network
13
13 Bus
Bus Companies
Companies with
with 100s
100s of
of routes
routes
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11 Train
Train companies
companies connecting
connecting urban
urban
areas
areas
1
1 integrated
integrated payment
payment system
system
Network
Thinking
How might
you decide
on the route
of a new
cycle path?
Desire Lines
Desire
offer a
Poeticslines
of Space
way to make
design
A pathfollow
that isnt
human
decisiondesigned
but rather
making
rather than
is worn casually
anticipate
it
away by people
finding the shortest
distance between
two points
Discussion
Can you think of a
time when your
desire line
through a city
differed from the
planned routes?
Network Thinking
Smart cities enable
people to interact they
way they want to.
Successful services enhance this
choice by supporting different
behaviors
Infrastructure
Technologies
Networks
Part 3: Problem
Solving
Exercise
Solving city
challenges through
open city principles
Challenge
1
City planners are
trying to decide on
the route for a new
cycle path.
Challenge
2
The mayor is trying
to reduce stress on
the citys power grid
Challenge
3
Commuters are
trying to avoid
overcrowded trains
Thank You
Benjamin Cave
Trainer
10/30/15
@cave_ben