How Will Our Daily Lives Within The City Of Tomorrow Unfold? What Disruptions Will Smart Systems?

The readings by Alba, Massey and Sampson discussed below all focus on the relationship between demographic living patterns and urban social and economic development. Cities as our author's explain are more than a homogenous center but rather an accumulation of various parts. One of the vital elements of a city is its people. People interact with cities in several manners, as workers, citizens, tourists, developers, each influencing and being influenced by the urban environment. The arguments provided by the author's this week stress the importance of understanding how a city interacts with its citizens in order to understand the larger, more general social and economic trends present.

“Cities are not approached simply as forums for economic and political confrontations but as places rich with meaning and value for those who live, work, and play in and near them” (Borer 2006). People assign characteristics and personality to cities. These traits are assumed to be as permanent and concrete as the physical city (Borer 2010). However, like the characteristics of a person’s identity may change over time, the identity of places is fluid and dynamic (Borer

In the nonfiction book written by Suketu Mehta, Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found, the title holds significant meaning. The reason behind this is explored within the first chapter, “Personal Geography,” as it concisely represents why Mehta chose this as the name of his work (3). Through the telling of his history in Bombay as a child and his rediscovery of it coming back as an adult, Mehta sets the stage for an in-depth description of this city and its nature throughout the rest of the book. This transformation from an insider to the culture of the city, to an outsider, to a potential insider is the essence of this first chapter, and overall the inspiration that Mehta uses to write this book. He makes the reader understand that this act of recording all of this information about Bombay is not to only to educate the reader, but also to educate and reacquaint himself with his city. Through immersing himself in the culture and the lifestyle, he finally receives the citizenship that he lost when he was a child and has been desiring since then.

Gentrification is a general term for the arrival of wealthier people in an existing urban district, a related increase in rents and property values, and changes in the district’s character and culture. The word draws controversy not only in its definition and meaning but also in the impact it has among human social life. It is a practice that is of ancient origin and has withstood the challenges of evolving times and is still practiced in the contemporary world. Proposers and opponents alike of the gentrifying phenomena take advantage of the numerous myths and misconceptions that surround the practice to advance their arguments. Urban planners have rooted for the inclusion of gentrification as one of the pillars of urban growth. With better economic status- better roads, better water supply system, better healthcare, reduced criminal activities and an overall uplifting of the quality of life economically- it is hard to argue against an overall gain from gentrification. Yet with all this, it has been the source of a lot of widespread animosity between social classes. It has also been blamed for a lot of cultural values erosion with in some instances complete override of the indigenous ways of life that the original inhabitants subscribed to. Green development is an urban development approach that utilizes green infrastructural growth and is aimed at alleviating negative impacts, or ideally have a net positive impact, on the environment and nearby ecosystems.

In today’s society an individual can travel to cities all over the world and experience different technological innovations in various forms. Skyscrapers, highway systems, and suspension bridges are all forms of innovation that, through the help of engineering and complex technological systems, can be observed in nearly every city around the world. These technological innovations have allowed sprawling urban environments to become the definition of a developed country, despite their infamous reputation for loud noises, traffic, and decreased air quality. Seen and unseen forces such as organization of labor and an expanded industry base gave rise to these urban centers through thoughtful planning and execution.

What will life be like tomorrow? This is a question that has been asked countless times since the dawn of the last century and even occasionally before. The mystery of tomorrow has captivated readers, moviegoers, television viewers, for generations. It has even caught the attention of science and engineering circles who attempt to put science fiction’s outlandish ideas into practical, real world utilization for everyday use by society. In these stories about tomorrow, one of the most common settings is life in a city. In these cities, life generally follows one of a couple of general paths: either the city is presents in a utopian, positive light where everything is designed and managed to provide for the highest possible standards of well-being and happiness for humanity, or the future may present itself in a totally different light. Tis light is, less

Two steps will sketch how the urban bind to new technicity. First, a description of the broader societal move and second my more personal reasons for the transversal. The hauntology of cities – i.e., a certain sustained technical reticularity – make the political animal called human possible. Moreover, hauntology sustains humans. People, in turn, nurture new potential technics. The atmosphere created by this dialectic contains both the potential to harm or heal (Cole-Turner, 2011: 3–4) – a potential Stiegler calls a pharmakon (Cf. Stiegler, 2010a: 47; Stiegler, 2010b).

And recognition of the city form is important part in identity and sense of the place in cities. Furthermore, city formation is not constant and can be define as spatial distribution pattern of physical elements in the city: Buildings, Street network, Alley ways, Open space, Landscape elements, Residential units, Hills, Rivers, Parks, Squares etc (Kevin Lynch, 1981). Furthermore, spatial distribution of physical elements illustrate the particular shape or structure or formation on the city. Furthermore, it can identify as a product of time. Therefore, with the time cities are forming and changing based on the behavior, activity and needs of its inhabitants (S.S.W. Zahra, I.A. Hedieh, A.S. Hamideh, 2013). This changing and forming process in cities loss their readabilities, citizens live perception and memory. As a result of that, original identity and sense of the place in the cities is changing with the time and given characteristics in a place (Y. Esra, A. Dicle, B. S. Süheyla,

As of currently, “the world is becoming more urban, right now, 54% of the world's population live in cities,” as observed by Joe Svetlik in his article, Rise of The Smart City (Svetlik). One of the main concerns of modern cities today is the threat of increased pollution. If urban populations were to increase, cities will have to find a way decrease their carbon footprint all while supplementing the increasing number of people moving away from rural environments. This means major transformations in the world’s landscapes and increased presence of heavier technology integrated urban developments and the possibility of self-sustaining elements. Particularly, city structures or buildings in the urban environment of the future will change the most dramatically. Sarah Nugent, Anna Packard, Erica Brabon, and Stephanie Vierra from The National Institute of Building Sciences, argues that urban development in the future will include more, “regenerative, restorative, and adaptive buildings [which] produce all of their own energy, capture and treat all water, [and] are also designed and operated to have a net-positive impact on the environment, including repairing surrounding ecosystems” (Nugent et al). Hopefully, these implementations will also transfer to other technologies such as cars, roads, and homes. Essentially, urban city structures and buildings that incorporate these features will

In the modern world, human civilization has seen many changes from earlier points in our history. In the more developed countries in the world, human civilization is broken up into two main categories known as “Urban Sprawl” and “New Urbanism”. In the interactive, Urban Sprawl and New Urbanism are broken down into five main branches: Regional Transportation, Parking, Street Plans, Shops, Civic Buildings, & Workplaces, and Residential Distribution. These branches reflect many of the places that we live in and see every day, and explains their purpose in depth.

More and more people are moving into cities and the world is swiftly urbanizing. Giving rise to our decisions to locate certain economic activities there, a post-office, a restaurant, a place of employment and so on. New activities generate, even new streets are added, increasing our path network. Life in a city is a mixture of opposites. People are constantly moving through the masses to get on a subway and being squashed into light rails and that becomes part of everyday existence that takes gradual toll on people’s energy. Beautiful buildings exist side by side with smoky factories. The city life is full of luxuries, entertainment, good education, employment opportunity, clean environment and good health. City life provides commercialization, banking systems, and entrepreneurial businesses. These areas provide better opportunities for the entrants besides providing ample atmosphere for expansion and conduction of business since consumers are higher in numbers. The city constitutes of the people who reside in it. It is only a city, as long as it's residence will give the name and credibility in the social and physical hierarchy.

With the start of globalization and international expansion cities became a more significant part for various industry sectors. By 2000, more than 500 cities had more than one million inhabitants. According to the United Nations, 54% of the world’s population currently live in urban areas. Urbanization combined with the overall growth of the world’s population could add another 2.5 billion people to urban populations by 2050, with close to 90 percent of the increase concentrated in Asia and Africa. This significant change of urbanization will lead to challenges in satisfying the needs for housing, infrastructure, transportation, energy supply and employment, as well as for basic services such as education and health care .

Although we are in a globalized and interconnected world, through mobile telephony, Internet and other gadgets of information technology, this does not mean that for people is a subsidiary or merely instrumental place where they want to live or work. It is perhaps one of the most important decisions. If it were indifferent location, on the assumption of a flat world by technology mobility, we would not be attending urban concentration that is occurring around large cities and that results in 2011 more than half of the population lives in cities and it is anticipated that by 2050 do about 70% of humanity.

Between the years 2017 and 2050, “the United Nations projects that global population will increase significantly by nearly 2.5 billion people putting the global population at around an estimated 9 to 10 Billion people” (Jiang). In the near future it is predicted that the global urban population will nearly double if not possibly triple in size. Which will create a global imbalance in quality of life and put an even greater strain on our planet’s resources as we reach earth’s carrying capacity.

The use of IoT has already impacted the way cities operate. The term smart cities, is used to describe a city that possesses an IoT oriented infrastructure. “In a smart city, the digital technologies translate into better public services for inhabitants and better use of resources while reducing environmental impacts”. [3] For a smart city to be feasible, IoT must provide intelligence, interconnection, and instrumentation. Wi-Fi-enabled smart devices and low-cost sensors are components of the smart city and allow devices a way to communicate with the public via the internet. These devices collect real-time data, which not only improves the lives of residents, but transforms several sectors of public service as well. Transportation has been revolutionized by smart traffic management systems which gather data from an array of magnetic road sensors and hundreds of cameras. The result is less delay at major stop lights and increased travel speeds, because enabled drivers can see which lights are busy and monitor these areas for other vehicles and pedestrians. To lower traffic and driver search times for parking spots, parking sensors that detect parking-spaces for drivers are installed in major cities. Street lights use a method of energy saving known as adaptive lighting which enables them to determine their brightness setting, appropriate for a given situation. The smart city solution to conserving energy is through smart girds. A smart grid serves several energy management