...iv) Sustainable Development (Urban Growth, Environmental awareness, Land Use Patterns & Integrated Transport Systems) This is a key issue that needs to be identified in each city where all the sustainable indicators are usually different from city to city. Identifying these indicators is difficult and is important in the progress to integrate sustainable development. Sustainable indicators should be the drive to action plans that can be implemented by all stakeholders if the required polices are in place. I order to make this happen, all stakeholders involved in planning, politics and infrastructure development should contribute to a system where information can be submitted on studies made and be combined to assist in making informed decisions...
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...Report 2014 SMART CITY EXPO WORLD CONGRESS 1 SCEWC 2014 5 2 Exhibition Global Partners Supporting Institutions Hosted by Organized by 3 Smart City Plaza Call for Solutions Partners’ Solutions Report 2014 10 12 16 18 18 20 22 24 4 Smart Activities Brokerage Event 1st Smart Cities Investment Forum Job Marketplace Smart City Open Innovation Marketplace SynergyS Internet of Things Big Bang Data Exhibition 26 28 28 29 29 29 30 30 5 Side Events CitiSense City Innovation Summit Rural Smart Grids 32 34 34 34 6 Cities and Countries 36 7 World Smart Cities Awards City Award Project Award Innovative Initiative Award Award Ceremony 40 42 42 42 43 8 Congress Keynotes Plenary Sessions Parallel Sessions 44 48 52 60 SMART CITY EXPO WORLD CONGRESS Beyond urban growth Rethinking the future city Smart City Expo World Congress (SCEWC) has become the leading event in the smart city industry. The 2014 edition recorded its best-ever figures with 10,838 visitors, 3,661 delegates, 275 exhibitors and 370 speakers coming from 92 countries and 440 cities to share the latest thinking on current and future issues related to urban growth. They all met and networked in a 20,000 m2 venue divided into two distinct areas: The exhibition area, which was the global marketplace ...
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...as laid down by Whitireia Community Polytechnic. * This is an original assessment and is entirely my own work. * Where I have made use of the ideas of other writers, I have acknowledged the source. * This assessment has been prepared exclusively for this course and has not been or will not be submitted as assessed work in any other course. STUDENT SIGNATURE: Mohan, Apratim. DATE OF SIGNATURE: August , 2011. Analysis Report Case Study: Towards 2040 - A Smart Green Wellington 1. Executive Summary: This report is an attempt to analyse and evaluate, both critically and otherwise, the strategic approach of Wellington City Council towards its endeavour to take the city to a highly elevated level in terms of several such aspects which make a city offer all the amenities and luxuries of a wonderful life. Wellington City Council (referred to as ‘WCC’ hereafter) has well identified and acknowledged the need to adapt and respond to the changing external environment. The WCC has proposed a strategic plan in this direction with a vision: Towards 2040 – A Smart Green Wellington. This report is aimed...
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...emergency. The government in many district in Contra Costa county has requested the public to conserve water and introduced the preliminary water use reduction target that are to be followed by all the residents and customers. As a result of the drought emergency small suburban city like El Cerrito has done a lot to help conserve water that could be implemented by many other district in Contra Costa County. The different projects El Cerrito has implemented to conserve water during drought could be also used by urban cities so that they do not have to implement extreme actions later on and also will be of great help during worsening drought conditions. In order to prevent serious damage due to shortage of water El Cerrito city started The Energy and Water Efficiency Program (EWEP) in 2008 so that it could fund projects that have innovative approaches for energy and water conservation (Innovative). Just by starting such program El Cerrito city was able to fund 1 water efficiency project due to which 1.5 million gallons water was saved which is a remarkable achievement (Innovative). Such long term strategy should also be implemented by many district in Contra Costa County so that drought does not effect the city like it has today in near future. The government in many urban district reacted only in face of the worsening drought but like EL Cerrito government they could have thought...
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...Urban Governance and Bottom of the Pyramid Approaches for Urban Sustainability. Through their work, the groups will also contribute to the preparation of Core Business Principles for Sustainable Urbanization that will be presented at the Fifth Session of the World Urban Forum to be held in Rio de Janeiro in May 2010. Given the challenge of urban poverty, with 1 billion slum dwellers projected to rise to more than 1.4 billion by 2020, UNHABITAT is well aware that the private sector is not merely a part of the solution, but instead is a vital partner that must be engaged if the world’s cities are to achieve sustainability. The challenge is first and foremost to address the shelter and basic services needs of low-income segments in urban areas. A further challenge is to scale-up operations through new partnerships in order to address the daunting challenge of rapid urbanization. Ensuring harmonious cities starts by dealing with the slums and finding affordable solutions for those deprived from decent housing and other essential services who find themselves systematically marginalized by mainstream urban market economics. The private sector can play a pivotal role in the process of empowering those at the bottom of the economic pyramid leading to a sustainable and stable urban community. This first draft is intended to guide the working group in the first place. The working group shall update its content and add recommendations based on concrete examples presented by the companies to...
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...2012 International Conference on Traffic and Transportation Engineering (ICTTE 2012) IPCSIT vol. 26 (2012) © (2012) IACSIT Press, Singapore Private Vehicle Ownership and Transportation Planning in Malaysia Noresah Mohd Shariff + School of Distance Education Universiti Sains Malaysia, 11800 Penang Malaysia Abstract. This paper analyzes current trends in private vehicle ownership in Malaysia. For the past decades private vehicle ownership has increased tremendously in this country which is partly due to the economic growth, rapid urban development, population growth and inadequate public transport availability and services. In 2010, Malaysia has a population of 28.3 million, 17.4 million private vehicle automobiles and 11.7 million registered drivers. Traditionally, income has been hypothesized as a major determinant of private vehicle ownership. However, the spatial arrangement of urban fabric has becoming more important determinant of owning a vehicle. Other determinants such as government policy, auto vehicle financing, household characteristics and travel characteristics are also important. Therefore this paper is analyzing the spatial determinants of private vehicle ownership in Malaysia with a special reference to the Penang Island. Penang Island is located on the northeastern region of Malaysia and is an industrialized and a highly developed island. Penang Island has a population of 575,498 in 2000 and 740,200 in 2010, an increase of 29 percent for the last 10 years...
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...Washington University Law Review Volume 1962 Issue 3 Symposium: The City in History by Lewis Mumford January 1962 Some Observations on Lewis Mumford’s “The City in History” David Riesman Follow this and additional works at: http://openscholarship.wustl.edu/law_lawreview Part of the Land Use Planning Commons Recommended Citation David Riesman, Some Observations on Lewis Mumford’s “The City in History”, 1962 Wash. U. L. Q. 288 (1962). Available at: http://openscholarship.wustl.edu/law_lawreview/vol1962/iss3/2 This Symposium is brought to you for free and open access by the Law School at Washington University Open Scholarship. It has been accepted for inclusion in Washington University Law Review by an authorized administrator of Washington University Open Scholarship. For more information, please contact digital@wumail.wustl.edu. SOME OBSERVATIONS ON LEWIS MUMFORD'S 'THE CITY IN HISTORY' DAVID RIESMAN* For a number of years I have not had any time to undertake book reviews but I feel so keenly the importance and excitement of Mumford's work, and my own personal debt to that work, that I wanted to contribute to this symposium even if I could not begin to do justice to the task. What follows are my only slightly modified notes made on reading selected chapters of the book-notes which I had hoped to have time to sift and revise for a review. I hope I can give some flavor of the book and of its author and invite readers into the corpus of Mumford's...
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...different regions and development levels in the world. Richer countries in Europe and the Americas already large percentage of their population live in towns and cities, while developing countries in Africa and Asia, still a large percentage of their population lives in rural areas, however urbanizing faster than developed countries. The landscape of human settlement is changing due to these global trends, with significant effects on health, living conditions, the environment, and development across the world. The purpose of this paper is to discuss the health, economic and environmental impacts of urbanization in the Philippines. What is Urbanization? Urbanization is defined as “the process by which an increasing proportion of the population comes to live in urban areas” (Yassi et al, 2011, p. 293). Many theories of development view urbanization and industrialization as interdependent processes of modern economics. However, according to Gollin et al (2013, p. 2), these two concepts are not synonymous, and they argue that there is not a strong association between urbanization and industrialization specifically among developing countries today. They pointed out that there are many countries, which have not industrialized significantly but are highly urbanized. One widely accepted theory of urban origins is that cities emerged from places where agriculture was highly productive to feed enough people, which lead to population concentration. Because of the abundance of food people...
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...own initiative to ensure their fundamental need for shelter. The current trend of urban growth in Bangladesh is about 5-6% per annum. At present 25% of Bangladesh’s population live in urban areas, which will be 34% by the year 2015 (REHAB, 2003). The Real estate developers are playing the vital role regardless of high, middle, and low-income people since the past two decades in providing the housing provision. Background (Description of the Organization/Company): The group begun its journey back in the year 1997. Real estate is the core business areas of Bestway Group. Bestway is one of the trust name in the real estate industry of Bangladesh. Bestway group is developing a mega city named “Purbachal Bestway City” at a place named Purbachal under Rupgang Thana in Narayangang District. A huge city has been planned in an area of approximately 6000 acres which will be self sustained with all amenities of modern live. Objectives: 1. To review the overall competitive structure in the real estate sector (Land) in the Greater Dhaka Area 2. To review profiles...
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...Health Care Utilization John Q Scenario John Q. recently moved to a rural community. He works full-time, but qualifies for Medicaid because of his low income. John has high blood pressure and his father recently had a heart attack. Thus, he decided to call to find out which providers nearby accept Medicaid. While there are local doctors, he discovered that the closest primary care physician who accepts Medicaid is a 40-minute drive and appointments must be made 2 weeks in advance due to the number of patients at the practice. In addition, the practice does not offer weekend or evening hours. John usually catches a ride to work with a friend or relies on public transportation. (University of Phoenix, 2012). Based on the above scenario, John Q. needs to see a doctor to keep from becoming a victim of a heart attack. There are many factors involved with John Q. using health care services. He has a low income, receives Medicare, no local physician available, limited transportation, and yet he has a need to see a doctor. These factors are described as predisposing, enabling, need, mutable, or immutable. The immutable factors cannot be changed, whereas the mutable factors could change. How dose one change them is the question? This question is important because the changes need to be made so that everyone can have access to health care no matter what area they live in. One of the major factors affecting John Q’s access...
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...Rural marketing in india accounts for 70% population and 50% of nation's GDP consituting a total income of $100 billion in 2010 elevates the level of significance should be given in expanding the market for rural india.It is a three step module starting with awereness,consumer engagement and finally retail contact.The dynamics of rural marketing has changed over years so has the perception about brands.As the RURAL YOUTH moving out from villages to near by cities and towns for education and employment creating increase in awareness of brands.As the rural marketing involves both urban and rural as it widely deals with sale of agricultural goods in urban areas and finished goods in rural areas.Along with the FMCG product brands the consumer durable goods brands taking their intiative in rural marketing explains its prominance and adoptance.Innovations tend to be happened in the brands in order to overcome challenges like pricing,distribution and packaging.630 billion rural population helping the marketers of most MNC's and indian companies to develop different strategies in tapping this huge market.Market growth of 3-4% per annum gives enouragement to rural investors.for the future decade indian rural market is driven literally by indian markets hence it creates opportunities for the youngsters in terms of innovation in rural distribution and promotion,pricing sensitivity and communication.Rural india buys goods for money not cheap goods which makes it profit making business...
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...Introduction Living in a rural location is a quieter area to reside in with fewer options compared to a more congested urban area. When an individual is choosing a location to live in there are many factors to consider. Some of these factors include population, amenities, school, employment, and crime rates. Desirable locations vary based on an individual’s age, ethnicity, and career path. Choosing a place to live is something that should not be taken lightly. Buying a home will lock one into a mortgage and make it more difficult to get out, unlike a lease, when one rents a home there is more flexibility. Shopping Opportunities Typically in an urban location one will have more opportunities to shop and find needed items at any given moment at a more affordable price. In a rural setting, however, there is a smaller population and less of a demand for goods and a person would have a difficult time buying items that they need as well as paying a considerably higher price for the items. Supply and demand play a big role on the price and availability of goods and merchandise. In an urban area there are more stores that carry items so they have to be competitive and offer sales and lower prices so consumers will buy their products. Transportation An individual also needs to consider the travel expense associated with living in a rural area, as more...
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...First of all it sounds like Sandwich Blitz is a unique business. With their offering of foods no other sandwich business has. This would be their main strength to keep the business above other shops that make sandwiches. Moving to a new city could be a strength with good opportunity for growth. This new market could open all kinds of possibilities. People like verity, with the right advertising opening in a new city could get them the exposer they need to become known nationwide. That alone could take there business to the next level. I also see one potential Weakness. In this new city sometimes people are hesitant to try new things. That could hurt them to start off in this new city. There is that possibility it may not take off in that city, just because there products they offer are not the usual in that city. The threats I see for them are the two new franchise operations that offer food and beverages similar to that of Sandwich Blitz. These threats are potentially big and would depend on a lot of things. One biggy is if one or both of these new franchises were to open in the some cities as their current franchise. That would take some business from Sandwich blitz. But if either one would open in the same neighborhood that could potentially put a big impact on their sales. Getting back to opportunity, the new competition could put a fire in their motivation. Dalman and Lei could come up with specials and use their experience in advertising to keep...
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...Types of association and cooperation forms according to the Romanian laws The forms of association an cooperation between public administration entities and other public or private actors are very limited: * The development intra-community associations (DIA) – Law 215/2001 The cooperation structures with juridical personality created by the territorial administrative units to cooperate on development projects of local and regional interest or to deliver public services. * This structure is very restrictive in terms of the possible members of the association – only representatives of the local administration. Thus, the cooperation can only be initiated by the local or county councils, and the leadership of these associations is entirely formed by the representatives of the local and county councils * Basic financing – fixed sums from the local budgets of the members. * They only function as associative entities to implement infrastructure or public service projects financed from EU funds. * Does not function properly due to the decision-making process based on unanimity. * The Local Action Groups (LAG) – defined in the Rural National Development Plan Entities that represent public-private partnerships, composed of representatives of the public, private and civil sectors from a homogenous rural area, that will implement an integrated strategy for the development of the territory. DIA – implementation of zonal or regional related projects...
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...contrary to payment) * Aircraft equipment and provide customer with special service(at same time USP) * conference room (incentive travel) * reception lobby * lounge, bar, gambling possibilities * extra gambling room * sleeping place = seats for landing & take off * restaurant * Wifi access * Offer passengers max. 2 possible packages ( package 1: West coast to east coast; package 2: east coast to west coast; each have different cities) * Starting points are East coast Boston/ NYC (not sure jet); West coast LA/ San Francisco * 2-3 Planes will be flying from one city to another, dropping passengers off and flying directly to next city and 1-2 planes will be flying in opposite direction (same route) 3. Cities, Routs & Maps: In the first 1-5 years we want to try out 2 packages (maybe a third package after the 4. year). Short term planned basis: Package 1 Cities: (Anna has the Cities) Package 2 Cities: (Anna has the Cities) After hopefully succeeding with the first 2-3 packages we might want to expand our product range in bigger route packages in the 5th to 10th year. Long term planned basis: Packages (Mike has them figured out!!!) 4. Target group???? * pax with money &want to travel * incentive travel 5. Pricing: ??? 2x possibilities...
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