Master of research proposal. The concept of Smart City vs. Human-Scale Development model.

1. Smart Cities + Human-Scale Development
Agata Brok
Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis, MRes

2. City is the future of mankind.

3. Smart Cities
 Smart economy
 Smart mobility
 Smart environment
 Smart people
 Smart living
 Smart governance
 ICTs
 Citizen in the centre…

4. Smart Cities
 Smart economy
 Smart mobility
 Smart environment
 Smart people
 Smart living
 Smart governance
 ICTs
 Citizen in the centre…
or their mobile phone?

5. City was built for human needs.
Few, finite and classifiable.

6. The Human-Scale Development model
Subsistence
Protection
Affection
Understanding
Participation
Idleness
Creation
Identity
Freedom

7. Matrix of needs and satisfiers. I. Cruz, A. Stahel, M. Max-Neef (2009)
)

8. Attempt to incorporate Human-Scale Development model
into the concept of Smart City

9. References
 Batty M., Axhausen K., Fosca G., Pozdnoukhov A., Bazzani A., Wachowicz M., Ouzounis G., Portugali Y.,
2012, Smart Cities of the Future, CASA Working Paper Series, paper 188.
 Cruz I., Stahel A., Max-Neef M., 2009, Towards a systemic development approach: Building on the HumanScale-Development paradigm, www. elsevier.com/locate/ecolecon.
 Giffinger, R., Fertner C., Kramar H., Kalasek R., Pichler-Milanovic N., Meijers E., 2007. Smart cities –
Ranking of European medium-sized cities. http://www.smart-cities.eu/. Vienna: Centre of Regional Science.
Retrieved 2009-11-11.
 Harvey D., 2012, Rebel Cities: From the Right to the City to the Urban Revolution, Verso, London.
 Max-Neef, M., 1992b. Development and human needs. In: Ekins, P., Max-Neef, M. (Eds.), Real Life
Economics. Routledge, London, UK, pp. 197–214.
 Nawratek K., 2012, Holes in the Whole, Zero Books, www.zero-books.net.
 Park, R. E., 1967, On social control and collective behavior, University of Chicago.
 All photographs used on non-commercial licence come from Photo Pin, www.photopin.com.
 Music Big La vs. Todd, The First Time, 2010.

10. Agata Brok
CASA, ASAV MRes
e-mail: agata.brok.13@ucl.ac.uk
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