Urban Systems Design: An approach to designing smart city living lab for carbon neutrality
Date/Time
Date(s) - August 7, 2023
2:30 PM - 4:00 PM
Date/Time
Date(s) - August 7, 2023
2:30 pm - 4:00 pm
Location
CREATE Seminar Room, Level 2, CREATE Tower
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Monday 7 August
Seminar: 2:30pm – 3:30pm SG
Networking reception: 3:30 – 4pm SG
CREATE Seminar Room L2, CREATE Tower
Note: This is an on-site only event
Abstract: Future cities development is becoming data-driven in the context of data science, pervasive computing, internet of things (IoT) and urban automation. The emerging technologies are changing models of future urban living in the post-cyber space era. Ideas and methods for designing zero carbon smart cities are urgently needed. They consist of smart homes, creative working environment, interactive public spaces and critical infrastructure systems that are becoming situational, and have to be more adaptable and resilient for future changes. The talk introduces urban systems design and emerging models of smart cities development, including Tokyo’s smart cities living lab and Atlanta’s airport city digital twin. It explores future urban living in the face of global climate change, radical urban changes and impacts of emerging technologies to cities. Asian and global primate cities are facing these challenges and are experimenting new models of smart cities living laboratory to reduce urban carbon emission to zero before 2050. Novel methods are to be developed to integrate city information system, creative design, systems engineering, policy and technological applications to offer solutions and strategies for addressing the above global challenges.
About the speaker: Prof Perry Yang is a Professor and Director of Eco Urban Lab of the School of City and Regional Planning and the School of Architecture at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He is also a Visiting Professor of the Department of Urban Engineering at the University of Tokyo from 2022. Perry’s work focuses on incorporating data analytics into urban design to improve ecological and energy performance of cities. He has published more than fifty articles and book chapters in this area from 2009, including a new book Urban Systems Design: Creating Sustainable Smart Cities in the Internet of Things Era that he co-edited and co-authored six chapters in 2020 by Elsevier. He co-edited a 2019 theme issue Urban Systems Design: From Science for Design to Design in Science in Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science, a prestigious journal in planning to explore new urban design research agenda and applications of emerging technologies, data analytics and urban automation to placemaking in the context of smart city movement.
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