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Given at the University of Houston Futures Gathering April 2013 on City Making.
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- 1. TATEMODERN“GlobalCities”www.borderlessculture.com Dr Cindy Frewen, FAIA cfw@frewenarchitects.com @urbanverse Great Urban Divides Houston Futures Spring Gathering 13 April 2013
- 2. What if the world’s population of 7 billion lived in one large city, how large would that city be if it were as dense as….
- 3. A typology of place identities Ecotopia Nature Conserve Planet first Environmental Utopia Community Shared All together, love Social Hi Tech Progress, BAS Competition, winning Efficient, convenient Techonomics Fortress Separation Tribal, barriers Fear, avoidance Politics CINDY FREWEN 2013
- 4. San Luis Obispo, CA 1970s Some cities are happier, is there a Happiness Divide?
- 5. San Luis Obispo Happiest City in America
- 6. San Luis Obispo No commutes, beautiful places so people accept lower income to live there.
- 7. China India Brazil U.S. Denmark World Values Survey, Inglehart & Welzel www.worldvaluessurvey.org Think about identity first, it’s in the place, buildings, and stories
- 8. MUMBAI Collectivism High Power Distance Long-term Orientation LOS ANGELES Individualism Egalitarian Short-term Orientation Hofstede’s Cultural Dimensions
- 9. LOS ANGELES, where homeless find the most public spaces because they’d be thrown off private property. Individual rules, short term solutions. INDIVIDUALISM EGALITARIAN SHORT-TERM ORIENTATION
- 10. MUMBAI INDIA, where people build a community but lack sanitation infrastructure. Community rules, long term orientation. COLLECTIVISM HIGH POWER DISTANCE
- 11. MUMBAILOS ANGELES HOFSTEDE CULTURAL DIMENSIONS Institutional public housing filled with hate, crime. Individualism Egalitarian Short-term Orientation Strong communities, terrible infrastructure Collectivism High Power Distance Long-term Orientation
- 12. litany 2m in slums; illegal immigrants; high crime/gangs systems Fear of deportation; low wages; property rights, taxes, utility/rent payments worldview Individuals fault vs. deserve better = disenfranchised myth/metaphor Hollywood, bright lights, opportunity = Temporary visitors, better future HOLLYWOOD BOLLYWOOD litany 6m in slums; rural migrants; high unemployment; desperate poverty and sanitation; safe systems Farms ruined; families strong; building community thru collective industry worldview Best they can do; future better through education myth/metaphor Gateway and “goddess of water” = continuity; connected to place & people Causal Layered Analysis (CLA)
- 13. Tate Modern Growth Gap Too many people, not enough city
- 14. Shrink Gap Too much city, not enough people Howzer cc flickr
- 15. Tate Modern
- 16. Largest cities over time from Europe to Asia, to Europe, to North Am, to Asia • 100 AD ROME 450,000 • 1000 CORDOVA SPAIN 450,000 • 1500 BEIJING 675,000 • 1800 BEIJING 1,100,000 • 1900 LONDON 6,500,000 • 1950 NEW YORK CITY 12,500,000 • 2000 TOKYO 26,400,000 • 2050 NEW DELHI 45,000,000 Or MUMBAI
- 18. Modern cities are a phenomena of just the last 100 years.
- 19. 1950 2013 21002050 20 billon WOW!!! And may be peaking in the next few decades.
- 20. Reuters +2 billion by 2050
- 21. Most rapid urbanization is behind us. showing 1950 – 2007 - 2030 WORLD 29-49-60 AFRICA 15-37-51 ASIA 17-41-54 EUROPE 51-72-78 LATIN AM 42-76-84 NORTH AM 64-79-87 51 54 78 84 87 UN Population Division
- 22. Shanghai 1990
- 23. Shanghai today
- 24. What a Modern Ghost Town looks like Creating Construction, Transplanting Culture Ordos China
- 25. More people than city Rio de Janeiro
- 27. Some places have larger gaps between richest and poorest Gini Coefficient describes income inequality; 0 = all have equal income; 1 = one person has all the income.
- 28. No income for many people, creates slums. Addis Ethiopia
- 29. When populations peak, so do cities. And probably not at the same time. That’s Peak Urban. You are here Nigeria U.S. India China 2010 21002050 2010 2050 2100 1.7B 1.3B UNPopDivision
- 30. CINDY FREWEN 2012 Peak Urban happens when there’s more place than people. More city than people.
- 31. Tate Modern Vision and Leadership Is there also an Innovation Gap? Or can cities be improved by design?
- 32. Curitiba Brazil Some cities find new life after decades of problems.
- 33. It’s many things, walkable streets, public transit solutions, more parks, bike paths, embracing sustainable design solutions. People coming together to create a city.
- 34. Tech Differences As technology increases, some cities will adopt rapidly and others won’t, creating a larger difference between cities.
- 35. Heads Up display wearable lenses
- 36. Digital Cities, For design futures, Simulating ideas
- 37. Layar – on android cell phone Junaio In the Sentient City, technology overlays every surface.
- 38. Sensors connect people into the, Internet of Things
- 39. With Big Urban Data, we will map every thing about a city, energy, walkable zones, crime, parties, ….
- 40. While other places will find low Tech Innovation, like these recycled bottle solar lights.
- 41. Sometimes an idea comes along like One Laptop Per Child. Here’s the company’s image.
- 42. Here’s One Laptop per Child in reality.
- 43. Arcosanti AZ, Paolo Soleri Flickr cc alterscape feb 2013 Thank you! Dr Cindy Frewen, FAIA cfw@frewenarchitects.com www.urbanverse.net @urbanverse