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Urban Challenges: The Way Forward--Gerard M. Mooney
Urban Challenges: The Way Forward--Gerard M. Mooney
Pages 114-121
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"Smarter cities" use instrumentation, interconnection, and intelligence to provide awareness of and coordinated responsiveness to activities and events. Interconnected technologies are changing the way the world literally works, and cities are the brightest opportunity to begin working toward a smarter planet.
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Acute Threats – Natural and Man-made Natural disasters, human error, cascading failures, and cyber-security aƩacks highlight the complexity and fragility of our global society, its businesses and infrastructure WW: Cloud Service Outage , 2011 Loss ~$5600/min Japan: Quake/Tsunami/ USA: Cyber-attack, 2011 Nuclear, 2011 Thailand: Flooding 2011 Loss ~$170M, Loss ~$200B, 30K Lives Loss ~$4 B, 550 Lives Personal information Global supply chain impact Auto and HDD are hit hard is stolen Loss of data 36 Human error 120000 Number of USA: Port Strikes, 2002 35 100000 incidents Loss ~$15B 80000 System failure reported to Retail and supply chain 31 60000 US-CERT disruptions Supply chain disruption 29 40000 Iceland: Volcano, 2010 Virus, worm or other malicious attack on IT systems 20000 Loss ~$1.7B 28 0 10M Passengers affected Employee malfeasance, e.g. theft or fraud 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 25 (Source: US-CERT)
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THE LEADERSHIP ROLE OF CITIES Cities are often the largest contributor to a country's GNP and, because of their importance, must determine what investments to make in order to become world-class and compete globally. A city's economic engine (Figure 3)
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With the growing importance of these attributes in the global economy, it is critical that cities create an environment that supports and promotes them. Such an environment
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Cities that invest in people through education and training have a higher quality stock of skills, talent, and knowledge, thus improving their chances for greater prosperity. There is, for example, a strong posi tive relationship between investment and enrollment in higher/ter tiary education and level of prosperity and economic performance, even at the national level: estimates of the gain in income from an additional year of education range from 5 percent to 15 percent.1 In addition, empirical evidence suggests a link between education, R&D, technology adoption, and growth.2 1 Deutsche Bank Research.
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Similarly, in former industrial cities of the US Rust Belt the decline associated with a deindustrializing economy has resulted in people leaving. BUILDING ON COLLABORATION: A SUCCESS STORY Industries, universities, and governments can work together to bring real economic development to cities and regions.
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120 LIVABLE CITIES OF THE FUTURE FIGURE 5 Strengths and Needs of a Cross-Sectoral Collaboration: Albany Nanotech FIGURE 6 Aligning the "Output" Vectors
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CHALLENGES: THE WAY FORWARD 121 CLOSING REMARKS Today's cities face a range of challenges and threats to their sustainability. Modernized capabilities, supportive policies, and cross-sector collaboration are the fundamental ingredients that build and enable economically viable smarter cities, enabling both residents and local industry to benefit from a great place to live, work, and run a business in a city that is adaptive, collaborative, efficient, secure, supportive, and sustainable.
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