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Bill Hutchison - Waterfront Toronto - Tomorrow's Connected Communities: ICT Strategies & Opportunities
1. Tomorrow’s Connected Communities:
ICT Strategies and Opportunities
Connected Urban Development Global Conference 2008
Bill Hutchison
Chair, i-Waterfront Advisory Council
Executive Director, Intelligent Communities
Waterfront Toronto
bhutchison@waterfrontoronto.ca San Francisco
www.waterfrontoronto.ca February 21 2008
3. World’s Largest Urban Revitalization Initiative
Context for Revitalization:
• Revitalization vs. Redevelopment
• Goals: Sustainable Economic and Social Development
• Blending Business Capital and Human Capital
4. Overall Scope
• $17 billion
– $4 billion public sector
– $13 billion private investment
• Four Districts
– Exhibition Place/Ontario Place
– East Bayfront
– West Don Lands
– Port Lands
• 200 hectares of parks and public spaces
• Major Film Studio
• 40,000 residential units: +100,000 residents
• Ten million square feet of employment space
5. Context for Revitalization
Revitalization vs. redevelopment
Public Policy Agenda:
– Reduce urban sprawl
– Develop sustainable communities
– Build more affordable housing
– Create more parks and public spaces
– Expand public transit
– Increase economic competitiveness
6. Fundamental Principles
Public Accessibility
Sustainable Development
Design Excellence
Economic Prosperity
Fiscal Sustainability
7. Sustainability
• Leading edge technology and innovation
– Mixed use/local services
– Transit
– Parks & Open Spaces
– Green Building Requirements
– District Energy
– Intelligent Communities
• Market Transformation
• Sustainability Framework/Swedish Audit
11. Central Waterfront Promenade
• International design competition
• Bathurst to Parliament
• Continuous public access
• Transform Queens Quay into iconic boulevard
12. West Don Lands & East Bayfront
• 130 acres of parks and public
spaces - 25% of precinct
• 12,000 residential housing units,
including 2,400 social
• 3, 000,000 sq ft commercial
• Elementary School(s)
• Recreation and childcare centres
• Community Wellness Centre
• Transit, bikeways & pedestrian
connections
13. Strategy for Sustainable Economic &
Social Development: Create a new
Intelligent Community; “i-Waterfront”
• Proven over 20 years to facilitate
economic and development
• Ensures Business Innovation
AND Social Innovation
• Key to success = i-waterfront*Net
(low-cost gigabit broadband
intelligent communications
infrastructure: FTTH and
ubiquitous wireless
14. Green Building Specifications
• Experienced Team
• Integrated Design Process
• LEED Gold Certification
• Minimum Energy Use
• Green Roofs
• District Energy
15. District Energy
• District Energy system in the West
Don Lands and East Bayfront
• District Energy provides heating and
cooling to a community of buildings
from one central plant
• Reduces costs of new buildings,
lowers air emissions, improves air
quality, consistent with corporation’s
sustainability goals
16. Transit
• Transit first approach; within 5 minute walk of all residences
• EA underway
• Construction scheduled to start 2008; service operational in 2009
17. i-waterfront*net: Open Access Architecture
Residents
Ultra Content and
Businesses Content and services broadband service
Institutions Infrastructure providers
18. Digital Media Business
• Focus on new digital media companies as part of employment
strategy
• Filmport, Corus Entertainment are new anchors in the
precinct
19. The Key Elements in Implementing i-Waterfront
• Community collaboration:
– Define the vision
– Create the roadmap
• Economic development, marketing and inbound investment:
– Building the i-Waterfront plan into the economic development
and job creation plans
• Leadership:
– Education of the WATERFRONToronto Board of Directors
– Create and use of the i-Waterfront Advisory Council
– Create focused subcommittees of the Advisory Council to lead the
e-application strategies
– Create international expert panel on broadband infrastructure
20. Other Global Intelligent Communities*
As selected by the Intelligent Community Forum,
“ICF”…..a Global Think Tank based in New York
Taipei, Waterloo, Glasgow, Sunderland,
Mitaka, Singapore, Tianjin, Seoul, Vasteras
……… and many more
The Winning Characteristics : Community
leadership, collaboration, digital democracy,
marketing, sustainability, advanced
broadband infrastructure
21. In Closing
• Ultra broadband infrastructure provides the foundation and
the first step
• The e-applications generate usage social prosperity and
sustainable economic development.