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The Future City Competition is a national, project-based learning experience where students in 6th, 7th, and 8th grade
imagine, design, and build cities of the future. Students work as a team with an educator and engineer mentor to plan
cities using SimCity™ software; research and write solutions to an engineering problem; build tabletop scale models
with recycled materials; and present their ideas before judges at Regional Competitions.
CURRENT CITIES FUTURE CITIES
Economically
Globalisation creates instability- good bits and bad bits
Fragile city economies
Waves of underemployed and lowly skilled
Socially
Inequality and poverty: Divided cities
Infrastructure (roads, rail, sewers) can’t keep up
Environmentally
Sprawling cities with little green space
Heavily polluted, wasteful and energy poor
Culturally
Lack cohesion between and within communities
Poor investment
PROPOSED SOLUTION
Economically
Advanced but mixed industry sectors
An economy that fits the ‘pulse of place’ Mixed skilled workforce
Socially
Socially and economically equal with poverty eradicated
Good infrastructure
High levels of public expenditure
Environmentally
Sustainable
Clean and renewably resourced
Culturally
Home to diverse and cohesive populations
WHAT DID THE FUTURE CITY SAY ABOUT GLOBAL CHALLENGES?
Poverty and inequality
Ageing
Energy, Workforce
Climate change, Waste and pollution
Economic Crisis, Overcrowding
Consumption, Urbanisation, Food and famine, Crime
Nationalism and identity, Globalisation
Migration, Natural Disasters, Ecology, Transport
THE IMMEDIATE CHALLENGES
Economical
Sluggish growth or no growth.
22million people unemployed in the EU (10%)
Social
Some 73m people in the EU are ‘poor’ and 2/3rds live in six countries
increases in voter apathy and societal mistrust
Public sectors cuts in services and funding
Environment
Reached peak oil- Energy prices are increasing
Global temperatures to increase by 1.8 to 4.0 degrees by 2100.
Cultural
Increased climate change induced migration
More debate over whose culture
SHAPE OF FUTURE CITY
Economic and environmental instabilities
We need to shape an economic destiny of cities – which is resilient which can shape works within environmental limits..
ERA OF DEVELOPING GOOD CITIES
As a geography’ – an area or locality which and identity
As a sociological concept – an intersection of points in a network of social relations
As an economic concept – a market place
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