This document discusses the shift from traditional cities where citizens lived close to essential services like work, shopping, schools, and healthcare, to autonomous cities where new technologies allow citizens to access services remotely. It provides examples of how innovations in areas like transportation (cars, flying taxis), delivery drones, telemedicine, online education, and entertainment are reducing citizens' need to live close to physical infrastructure and changing the paradigm of what a city provides. This represents a shift from cities organizing primarily around proximity to essential living services to cities making sense for communities and providing/organizing assistance through new technologies.

1. Citizens living in Autonomous Cities
Alain Staron
The new paradigm
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2. 1318
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PARIS
1318

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3 lights
1318

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6500 lights
1nov-28 feb
1667

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1763
3600
Street
lights

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23 325 Gaz
Street lights
1869

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1951: 34 300 street lights
1960: 48 000 street lights
2014: 200 000 Street lights
Nowadays

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1840 1784 1600 1383
1200
2000
Light and area

10. Paradigm shift
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Rembrandt , 1642 Edward Hopper , 1942

11. Paradigm shift
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Domenico Feti (1589-1624)
Indoor night scene
Bedroom, 21st century
( 25 lights/household in average)

12. Light Ownership Paradigm shift
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Human InfrastructureCommunity

13. Early public Transport
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1662

14. Manure
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200 000 horses
X
11 kg/day
=>
2,5 m high in
50 years
(1894 – Times
of London)

15. 1891: Ecological move
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Panhard & Levassor Type A P2C
1.5 HP – 12 km/h
1891
1 Horse
3 – 10 - 16 km/h

16. Game Over in …
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Paris
1900: 10 863 horse cabs >> 115 cars
1907: 9 409 horse cab > 2 359 cars
1922: end of last horse cab
New York, 1912
Cars >> Horses
30 years, and 20 years to 50/50

17. The fuel
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0
5000
10000
15000
20000
25000
30000
35000
Worldwide car production
1903
Panhard & Levassor
1891
12 years

18. 30+ french car makers in 1905
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1891
Amédée Bollée
Delamare-Deboutteville
Jeantaud
Rochet-Schneider
1903
Triouleyre
Goujon
Montier & Gillet
Grivel
juzan
Astresse
Augé
David & Bourgeois
Lufbery automobile
Poron
Tourey
Le Blon Frères
De Riancey

19. Still some fears
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August, 26th, 1902
Bry-sur-Marne
Grand Rue
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20. Infrastructure impact
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21. Infrastructure footprint cost
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22. How much of a city is occupied by streets?
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5% 15% 25%

23. How much of a city is occupied by streets?
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5% 15% 25%
PARIS

24. From Living to driving…
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Parking
12%
Street
48%
Sidewalk
40%

25. Discrepancy…
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Parking
12%
Street
48%
Sidewalk
40%
Walking
Public
Transport
Cars
Bikes
MotorBikes
Others
(Taxis…)
Mobility share, Paris 2010-2014

26. From Living to driving…
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27. Infrastructure footprint cost
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28. Relaxing the environnemental footprint
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Infrastructures move into devices

29. Relaxing the environnemental footprint
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30. Relaxing the environnemental footprint
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31. Where are cars ?
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Hanoi Guangzhou
Moscow Roma

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Autonomous
Driving?

33. Going 3D !
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34. The Loop
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35. The Sky
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2019
2031
?Carplane
Germany
Sale: 2021
"EHang 184"
- China
20xx
"Volocopter 2X"
- Germany
Sale: 2023
NEC
Quadrocopter
Japan
Sale: 2023
Cora, Flyer, Heaviside
Kitty Hawk – USA
Preorder:2019
"Pop Up"
Airbus – Italdesign/Audi
Europe
Service:2024
"Lilium Jetr "
Lilium Aviation -
Germany
Service:2022
"S2"
Joby Aviation -
USA
Unknown
« ??"
Hyundai- Korea
Unknown
"Transition & TF-2"
Terrafugia –Geely
USA/Chine
Preorder:2019
"Elevate"
Uber – Boeing USA
Service:2023
"Volante",
Aston Martin
UK
Unknown
"Skydrive"
Cartivator – Toyota
Japan
2023
"Formula"
Hoversurf - Russia
Preorder:2018
"AeroMobil 4.0"
AeroMobil - Slovakia
Sale:2021
"DR-7"
DeLorean Aerospace
- USA
Unknown
"PAL-V Liberty"
PAL-V - Netherlands
Preorder:2019
"Xplorair"
Michel
Aguilar/Dassault -
France
Sale:2025
« Alpha-2"
Airbus –France
Service:2024
« Uber-Copter"
USA
Service:2019
« HoverTaxi"
France
Service:2022
Boeing
USA-
Unknown
Boeing Porsche
USA-Germany
Unknown
Vertical Aerospace
UK
Unknown
« BlackFly" - Opener
USA
Sale: 2019

36. Regulations
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Japan: The plan aims to introduce flying cars for
logistics use in 2023. Personal transport would follow
in the mid-2020s for use in rural areas and in the
2030s for urban areas.
One between Singapore's international airport
and central business district, and another
between the tourist hot spots of Marina Bay and
Sentosa Island.
Melbourne will be the third city to host trials of
Uber's flying taxis, after Dallas, Texas, and Los
Angeles, California.
New Zealand regulators approved plans for
Zephyr Airworks.
The Dubai Roads and Transport Authority (RTA)
announced the signing of an agreement with the
German VOLOCOPTER Company.
Autonomous air mobility company EHang to deploy
air shuttle service in Guangzhou.
PARIS: Airbus, la RATP et ADP s’associent pour
mettre en fonction d’ici cinq ans un démonstrateur
reliant l’aéroport de Roissy-Charles-de-Gaulle aux
sites olympiques. utiliser le couloir aérien déjà
emprunté par les hélicoptères et d'assurer une
rotation toutes les six minutes.

37. Business cases flying cars
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Crowdy area

38. Business cases flying cars
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Urban Cable Car

39. Business cases flying cars
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Rural area

40. Business cases flying cars
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Touristic areas

41. Business cases flying cars
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Emergency

42. Flying Taxis - Infrastructure
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Essex-based Skyports Ltd. plans to
show off the vertical take-off and
landing station at Marina Bay during
the Intelligent Transport Systems World
Congress from Oct. 21-25.
Starting in
October, Uber
Copter will be available
to every single Uber
user residing in New
York City. Uber Copter
will take riders from
lower Manhattan to JFK
International Airport, or
vice versa.

43. Delivery
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2019: UPS won USA
government approval to
operate a nationwide fleet of
drones over 55 pounds initial
business around medical
facilities
In Rwanda and Ghana,
Zipline runs the
world’s largest delivery
drone network,
carrying vaccines,
medications, and
blood to rural
hospitals
2019: Google sister
company Wing
announced that it would
be partnering with FedEx
and the drugstore chain
Walgreens to bring
autonomous drone
deliveries to the US.
2016: La
Poste
delivery
service in
South of
France
2019: Swiss
Post
delivery
service
(suspended
after crash)
2018: An
international group
of companies is set
to test drones at
the DronePort
campus in Brustem,
Belgium,
including Amazon
China, Dubai,
2019:
Google
launches its
first drone
delivery
service in
Australia
Finland, 2019: The
first-of-its-kind drone
delivery service coming
to Christiansburg will
launch later this
month, according to
Wing Aviation
Flytrex is already
conducting drone delivery
trials in Iceland, is
preparing to begin trial
food deliveries in the
town of Holly Springs,
North Carolina, USA
2019: DHL became
the first international
logistics provider to
launch an autonomous
aerial vehicle (AAV)
drone delivery service
in China, Guangzhou.

44. Delivery - Regulations
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45. Energy
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46. Water
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metal-organic framework (MOF) sewage treatment plant

47. Telecom - done
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France: 2700 left, used 28s/month USA: From 2 000 000 in
1999 down to 100 000
today
UK: Usages falls 90%
Half removed of
converted

48. Health and Medecine
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49. Things change
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50. Distance is no more an issue
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Do I need
shopping malls
nearby?
Amazon will
deliver, or
my neighbor
Do I need to live
close to my
working place?
Workspaces
available
nearby
Do I need a
bus station
nearby?
Uber or
Google will
drive me
Do I need a
school
nearby?
MOOC*
will
make it
Do I need
theatres
nearby?
My Hometheatre makes
the job, and my twitter/FB
allow me to share with my
friends
Do I need a
Medical Doctor
nearby?
My health will
be monitored
on line

51. City new paradigm
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Making sense
for
communities
Providing
&
Organizing