The rebranding process and players in urban places Flashcards
What does the UK demographic look like?
AGEING POPULATION
- 1/4 pop will be >65 in 45-50 years
How have some places started to accommodate ageing populations? Use and example
AUSTRALIA: GOLD PROGRAMME
- all about making sure they are still involved and part of the community
- needs an accessible, elderly-friendly city
What can be done to ensure an age-friendly city?
- public transport
- housing suitable for ageing
- social participation consult on change
- respect and social inclusion
- civic participation and employment - use talents
- communication and information - helping silver-surfers
- access to community support and health services
- outdoor spaces and buildings accessible
What are ubiquitous commons?
Social networks and technologies that have transformed the ways in which we communicate, learn, work, consume, express emotions, relate to each other and create and share information and knowledge
- it can create a new concept of digital public spaces, and allows us to more freely express self-representation (e.g. culture) so we can co-exist
- allows control over data we produce
How do ubiquitous commons make it so places are always perceived to be changing?
settlements change from physical sites with links to other places, to places where data, information and knowledge is exchanged between people while devices and data-storage points are help by orgs, companies and institutions
the organised management to this is called ‘movements’
What are some of the ‘movements’ (the organised management) of the ubiquitous commons?
Safe Cities
Smart Cities
Transition Towns Network
What are ‘safe cities’?
a response of The Economist Intelligence Unit to the challenges of modern urban life
It established the variables for deciding whether a city is secure, incl
- digital security
- Health Security/Infr. Security
- Personal Safety
What are ‘smart cities’?
a movement that envisages urban managers and technology companies working together to organise urban processes more efficiently with the aim of improving QoL
e.g.
- energy/water supply
- transport and logistics
- air and env quality
What is the Transition Towns Network?
Give an example
stresses the need to community=led change in response to rising energy crisis and climate change
TT utilise bottom-up initiatives to address food supply, transport, energy, and housing
e.g. Totnes, Devon has become one of the most advances TT
- aims to maximise local spending in the local economy
What is bottom-up development?
ideas and developments that start within a community, often using local skills and resources
What is top-down development?
ideas and investment from a large body outside a community e.g. government/large agencies like the World Bank
