INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON CITY SCIENCES

Taking place in Shanghai, the paradigm of challenges for future cities and a crossroad itself between East and West, the International Conference on City Sciences responds to these and other issues by bringing together academics, policy makers, industry analysts, providers and practitioners to present and discuss their findings.

The new science of cities stands at crossroads. It encompasses rather different, or even conflicting, approaches. Future cities place citizens at the core of the innovation process when creating new urban services, through “experience labs”, the development of urban apps or the provision of “open data”.

Future cities also describe the modernization of urban infrastructures and services such as transport, energy, culture, etc., through digital ICT technologies: ultra-fast fixed and mobile networks, the Internet of things, smart grids, data centers, etc. In fact during the last two decades local authorities have invested heavily in new infrastructures and services, for instance putting online more and more public services and trying to create links between -still prevalent- silo approaches with the citizen taking an increasingly centre-stage role. However, so far the results of these investments have not lived up to expectations, and particularly the transformation of the city administration has not been as rapid nor as radical as anticipated. Therefore, it can be said that there is an increasing awareness of the need to deploy new infrastructures to support updated public services and of the need to develop new services able to share information and knowledge within and between organizations and citizens. And above this, there is an urgent need to discuss among practitioners and academicians successful cases and new approaches able to help to build better future cities.

Sponsored by Master on City Sciences and promoted by Tongji University (China) and Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (Spain), the Conference addressed a broad range of topics related to infrastructures and services in the framework of city sciences:

  • Development of new infrastructures and services of relevance in an urban context: broadband, wireless, sensors, data, energy, transport, housing, water, waste, and environment.
  • ICT-enabled urban innovations
  • Smart city developments and cases
  • Social and economic developments citizen-centric
  • Renewed government services in a local level
  • Simulation and modeling of the urban context

Organizing Committee:

  • Claudio Feijoo, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid/Tongji University
  • Xiangning Li, Tongji University
  • José María de Lapuerta, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
  • José Manuel Páez, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid/Harvard University

 

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