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More than 50% of the 7 billion people inhabiting our planet now live in cities, a number projected to grow to more than 75% during this century. The growth of cities as the center of the human world was highlighted when \u201cThe City 2.0\u201d was awarded the 2012 TED Prize<\/a>. \u201cFor the first time in the history of the prize, it is being awarded not to an individual, but to an idea,\u201d the TED committee stated. \u201cIt is an idea upon which our planet\u2019s future depends.\u201d
\nClearly cities will play an increasingly important role in our future survival. Cities offer easier access to services, and urban dwellers are more efficient consumers of limited resources. Cities are human destiny. But as our cities become more populated and more numerous, how do we best manage this complexity?
\nWe need to start thinking about cities in a different way.
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\nReimagining the Canvas<\/strong>
\nMaps have proven to be very useful throughout our history, but traditional maps have limited our ability to manage and design in a holistic, comprehensive manner. GIS technology gives us a powerful new context for extending our traditional methods of abstracting geography\u2014a new canvas that includes everything that lies below, on, above, and around the city, including what exists inside and outside buildings, as well as how things connect to the city and how all of these things change through time.<\/p>\n

[iframe width=”480″ height=”270″ src= http:\/\/video.esri.com\/iframe\/728\/000000\/width\/480\/0\/00:00:00 00 frameborder=”0″ scrolling=”no””]\n“Redesigning Paris with CityEngine\u201d features a Parisian-like city with two
\nlevels of detail arranged around a logo on a fully dynamic city layout.<\/em><\/p>\n


\nCities as Ecosystems<\/strong>
\nCities are the places where most of us now spend the vast majority of our lives. The recognition of cities as habitat for modern man is leading to new approaches to their management and design. GIS technology has long been used to map, study, analyze, and manage \u201cnatural\u201d ecosystems. It only seems logical to manage, model, and design our new man-made ecosystem with the same tried and true tools used to manage, model, and design traditional ecosystems.<\/p>\n

[iframe width=”480″ height=”270″ src= http:\/\/video.esri.com\/iframe\/179\/000000\/width\/480\/0\/00:00:00 00 frameborder=”0″ scrolling=”no””]\n“David Thorpe presents “Fractals and Urban Forms: Using Chaos Theory
\nto Reshape Cities” at the 2011 GeoDesign Summit.<\/em><\/p>\n


\nBuildings as Microcities<\/strong>
\nAs our cities grow in size and complexity, so too do the buildings which compose much of the fabric of the city. In effect, many buildings and facilities are becoming small cities themselves, and they need to be designed and managed as such.
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\nAn Engaged Citizenry<\/strong>
\nSmart cities of the future will be those where the citizenry is engaged in their design and evolution, where we fully leverage the collective intelligence of the masses and allow everyone to actively participate in shaping our communities. Today, social media and mobile citizen engagement applications are enhancing a variety of government-citizen interactions involving public information, requests for service, public reporting, citizen-as-a-sensor, unsolicited public comment, and even volunteerism.
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\nDesigning The City 2.0<\/strong>
\nGeography is constantly changing\u2014from wind and water erosion, natural climate shifts, tectonic and volcanic activity, and the dominance and extinction of species and ecosystems. But recent changes to geography as a direct result of human activities are threatening the survival of many species, including our own.<\/p>\n

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In my talk at TED2010<\/a>, I introduced the idea of \u201cgeodesign\u201d\u2014a concept which enables architects, urban planners, and others to harness the power of GIS to design with nature and geography in mind. Geodesign, which combines the strengths of data management and analysis with a strong design and automation component, is fundamental to designing The City 2.0.
\n<\/strong>
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\nA New Direction<\/strong>
\nOur challenge is to design our man-made ecosystems to achieve the maximum benefit to society while minimizing short- and long-term impacts on the natural environment. As an integrative platform for management and analysis of all things spatial, I believe that GIS technology can help meet this challenge.
\n\u201cThis idea is capable of inspiring millions of people around the world to contribute to one of the biggest challenges and opportunities humanity faces,\u201d the TED committee stated when announcing the award of the 2012 TED Prize.<\/em> \u201cThe City 2.0 is not a sterile utopian dream, but a real-world upgrade tapping into humanity\u2019s collective wisdom.\u201d
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