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Insights from the New Cities Summit

2015

Sophie Freiermuth

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Nick Clark of Al Jazeera English, Greg Lindsay of the New Cities Foundation, Patrik Regårdh of Ericsson, Ahamed J.M Muzammil, Mayor of Colombo, Siddhartha Sengupta of State Bank of India

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This kind of talks

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“Should we have cities at all?

Cities come from a previous kind of

thinking: You don’t have infrastructure

everywhere, so you put it all in one

place.”

Prof. Muhammad Yunus Nobel Peace Prize 2006

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People

• Urbanisation is only starting

• Cities are for the poor

• Cities’ outcomes are citizens’ experiences

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Transportation

• Urban mobility rather than mass transit

• Transit-centered living

• Financing of infrastructures need to innovation

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Technology

• Heavy investment

• Making sense of the data collected

• Use data for liveability before efficiency

• Some phenomenons cannot be patterned

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Governments

• Crime, corruption

• The rise of 1-stop-shops for citizens and businesses

• A plea for open, usable data

• Building chronic and acute resilience together

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Cleverness wins

• Free breakfast gets kids to school

• Stop rich people using free services by downgrading slightly the experience

• Incentivise good behaviour

• Beat the law by using it

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The exit trap

• Privatisation hides gaps in the service

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Jakarta Urban Challenge winners: SQUEE.io

A “ratwalk” sharing app that unifies pedestrians and cyclists to travel together on shorter, safer, non‐motorized routes across Jakarta's urban kampongs

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my take away for designers and entrepreneurs

• Cities are not unchartered waters where entrepreneurs can be sheriffs

• Engage with your city from the get-go

• Go observe other cities solutions / share yours!

• Cities are wicked problems: can’t be solved, only managed once