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What Kind of Problem a City Is?

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What

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Problem

a City

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432 Park Avenue

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495-room Drake Hotel

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Edificio España

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Order

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Solidified Chaos?

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Cities are often seem as works of art...

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Paris

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Rio

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Ulan Bator

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Mumbai

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Nairobi

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Urbanization: The pressure to Aglomerate

Year 1900: 200M people lived in cities, 12% of world populationYear 2015: 3,500M people live in cities, 50% of world populationYear 2050: 6,500M people will live in cities, 80% of world population

China will build the equivalent of New York every other year for 20 years

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Why Economists still like Cities

There is a near perfect correlation between

urbanization and prosperity across nations

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Songdo

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Cities happen to be problems in organized complexity

Jane Jacobs

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Urban Problems are “Wicked” Problems

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What you see is not what you get…when it comes to cities

Cities are now regarded as being in a

perpetual state of disequilibriumA city is not something that is planned from

the top down but emerges organicallyCities are beginning to be interpreted as

fractal structuresCities change in shape as they change in

size, and we usually call this allometryHow to model the generic processes that generate physical form

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Are cities part of biology? Is London a great big whale? Is Edinburgh a horse?

Geoffrey West

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Innovation Machines

Proximity has become ever more valuable as the cost of connecting across long distances has fallen. cities aren’t structures; cities are people. (Edward Glaeser, “The Triumph of the City”)

Cities are devices that enable us to communicate. Cities are places where people come together to “interact” with one another. (Michael Batty, “The New Science of Cities”)

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21st Century Gardens

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http://walluck.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/Bangkok-City-At-Night.jpg

An inconvenient truth?

In the Future, Companies Will Survive Only if They Help Solve Big Social Problems

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Thank you

Francisco J. Jariego@fjjariego

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Art & Science

Cover Image• Nagib KARSAN Numero 192, Venice http://goo.gl/6NkIBg

The Wonder City You May Live to See• Popular Science Monthly, August 1925

Cities happen to be problems in organized complexity• Jane Jacobs, “The Death and Live of Great American Cities” http://goo.gl/UfdQXs

What you see is not what you get• Michael Batty, “Cities as Complex Systems” http://goo.gl/yr2Z8W

Are cities part of biology?• Geoffrey West, “The surprising math of cities and corporations” TED Talk http://goo.gl/1VBACy• Geoffrey West et. al. “Growth, innovation, scaling, and the pace of life in cities” http://goo.gl/sG9Yq4

21 Century Gardens• Van Gogh-Roosegaarde bicycle path https://goo.gl/54xUvr• Newman & Kenworthy, Transport Related Energy Consumption, Gigajoules per capita per year, https://goo.gl/MWpfFP

Innovation Machines• Michael Batty, “The New Science of Cities” http://goo.gl/LK8mlm• Edward Glaeser, “The Triumph of the City” http://goo.gl/QiuMB3