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discussion 5:

CASE STUDIES FOR DISCUSSION QUESTION

• Eastgate Centre, Harare, Zimbabwe (http://www.mickpearce.com/Eastgate.html)
• RBC WaterPark Place III, Toronto (Oxford Properties Group. (2014, November 24). Welcome to RBC WaterPark Place [Video]. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JxGd2Es2g6A
• Sandbag housing in South Africa (https://www.pri.org/stories/2008-12-04/sandbag-housing-south-africa)

Smart, sustainable, or both?

We discussed the Edge in the lecture notes, and it was also featured in the TED x talk with Coen van Oostrom. Choose another building or project from the list of case studies provided. Discuss the building/project in terms of what makes it smart and sustainable. In what ways could it be improved? Is the building more smart than sustainable or vice versa?

Discussion 6:

Are there any smart and/or sustainable energy projects in your city or a city near you? To what extent do you think they represent a shift away from the status quo, as opposed to an experimental (and perhaps one off) pilot project?

Discussion 7:

New cities from scratch are often portrayed as utopian and solutions to the problems of existing cities (pollution, crime, poverty, poor housing, and infrastructure, etc.). This was the case with the 20th Century British New Town movement and it is again the case with new smart and sustainable master planned cities, although the details are very different. Given the readings, viewings, and listening this week, how would you assess the promises made about scratch cities and what might be of concern?

discussion 8:

Shorten existing to the following: How would you weigh the benefits of living in a green, innovative, and hyperconnected city against the costs of being increasingly surveilled and having your data collected and used by governments and corporations (with or without your permission)?

Discussion 9:

Smart and sustainable technologies are often criticized for being too energy-, efficiency-, economics-, and/or technology-oriented. How is Smart City 3.0 attempting to better incorporate people and ‘the social’ into its framework? Can you think of examples in your city that might be considered to be Smart City 3.0?

Discussion 10:

Now that have examined many example of and issues about smart and sustainable cities, what would your ideal smart and sustainable look like?