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Spaces of CooperationThe Future of Public Urban Space

Jonathan Daly

Urban Renewal, Planning & Design Summit, 2014

Technology is the answer but what was the question? Cedric Price

A place for everything and everything in its place

Future Cities?

Fetishes

Dirty Words

Selfishness

01/Fetishes

#1Concrete Fetishes

“Build it and they will come” - A Field of Dreams, 1989

#2Control Fetishes

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Religion

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Planning

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Architecture

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Traffic Engineering

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Big Data

Smart Cities

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Messy

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ComplexCity SeoulLee Jang Sub

02/Dirty Words

Urbanisation

X20EVERY 5 DAYS

Masdar City 50,000 pop.

8 years to construct

$22bn cost

Density

Public Space

03/Selfishness

The Beginning?

Bronze Age

Medieval Age

Industrial Age

Fordist Revolution

Urban Fabric

Boundaries

Exceptions

Exemptions

Territories

Contested Spaces

Separation in History

Political

Sectarian

Social

Racial

The Shared City

Food

Bicycles

Cars

Work Spaces

Learning Spaces

Living Spaces

Cyberspace

Public Space?

We can’t solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them. Albert Einstein

Define è Analyse è Solve

People are diverse

There are no absolutes

People are complex

The Linear Approach

Dumb Environments

People are not idiots, but if you treat them like idiots they will behave like idiots. Hans Monderman

Designing for the Human Condition

B=f(P,E) Kurt Lewin, 1936

95%40 million bits per second

Cognitive Biases

Control

Hong Kong

Anchored

The Built Environment

Culture & Heritage

Vulnerability

Dharavi

Craft Sustainability

Community Employment

04/Closing

Uncertainty, the ultimate evil that modern law seeks to eradicate, generally fosters cooperation, not the opposite. Philip K. Howard

Jonathan Dalybehaviourologist

jonathan.daly@mutfung.com

0413 017 851

@thesensorycity