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This comprehensive exploration emphasizes the evolution of intra- and inter-city systems through the development of Global Spatial Systems (GSS) for cities. Addressing barriers in technologist and social scientist communication, it advocates for adaptability and unique modeling to understand urban dynamics. By fostering collaborative narratives, enhancing decision-making, and recognizing ICT's role as a key utility, the text aims to reshape city governance, improve quality of life, and address the challenges of rapid urbanization. This discourse encourages innovative approaches toward sustainable urban systems.
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Global City Systems & ICT • Developing GSS for Cities • Evolution of intra-city systems • Evolution of inter-city systems
Developing GSS for Cities • Improving inter-disciplinary communication • Technologist / ICT / Social Scientist gaps • Barriers • Emphasis on quantitative modeling – consider unstructured information analysis as bridge • Emphasis on uniqueness – consider development of formal hierarchies of abstraction and scales • Formal development of “urban science” • Development of next generation of planners administrators • Shaping the futures of specific cities through collaborative narrative development • Roles of ICT • Identifying quantitative and qualitative patterns • Understanding how cities work and how people live in cities • Understanding the futures of cities
Evolution of intra-city systems • Need for adaptability of cities in era of rapid change – lack of adaptability in traditional design/planning methods • Transition from 19th Century industrial models of service & infrastructure management to 21st Century decentralised management • Emergence of ICT as the fifth utility • Open/closed, centralised/distributed • Making the invisible visible • Knowledge aggregation and dissemination • Decentralised decision-making • Improving perceived Quality of Life • Changing connectedness • Impacts of high-speed transportation and virtualization/dematerialisation on intra-city and inter-city structures/systems • Maslow’s hierarchy / low -> Local connectedness, physical resources & infrastructure dependencies • Maslow’s hierarchy / high –> Global connectedness, virtual resources & ICT dependencies • Roles of ICT • New flexibilities, new dependencies • Governance of information • Impacts on democracy
Evolution of inter-city systems • National and global coupling among cities • Decay of 19th Century “feeder network” model with hierachy of economic roles • End-point of current urbanisation – a small number of mega-cities? • Forces driving urbanisation • Resource efficiency, economic opportunity, innovation • Abandonment of countryside • Specialised roles in global ecosystems • Countervailing forces • Pollution • Need for diversity in skills and economies • Alternatives to GDP as key metric – Genuine Progress Indicator (M Porter), Better Life Index (OECD) • Questions • Can failing cities be brought back to life? • Minimal threshold of size for social & economic survival? • Is there a maximum or optimal size for a city? • Role of ICT • Globalised ecosystems • Dematerialisation of work • Macro-economic modeling, policy decisions
