Smart Cities Resource Page

• (ch) Lilian Edwards, University of Strathclyde, Prof of E-Governance
• Richard Bellingham, University of Strathclyde
• Alastair Brown, Glasgow City Council
• Paul Galwas, Catapult, London

• Rob Kitchin, National University of Maynooth, Dublin, Ireland (keynote overview)

• Q&A

• Ayona Datta, University of Leeds
• Melissa Low, Energy Studies Institute, National University of Singapore – ‘Many Smart Cities, One Smart Nation: Singapore’s Smart Nation Vision’
• Dieter Cuypers, Flemish Institute of Technological Research – VITO

Smart cities can be defined as urban environments where extra value and services are created for citizens by the amassing, sharing and harnessing of data, both from digital and real world (“Internet of Things”) sources. Yet such data driven regimes also raise legal and social, as well as technical, issues. Who owns data generated in smart cities? Who gets to buy and sell personal data? If consent is the key to user trust in smart technologies, how can real prior consent be obtained in smart “ambient” environments, including domestic space such as smart homes, fridges and bathrooms?! How can standards help establish interoperability and prevent smart cities becoming the modern version of “company towns”?

• (ch) Lilian Edwards
• Judith Rauhofer, University of Edinburgh
• Alison Powell, Dept of Media and Communications, LSE – ‘Data Intermediaries and Citizenship: Who benefits?
• Ewa Luger, Microsoft Research, Cambridge
• Derek McAuley, Horizon, University of Nottingham

The development of smart cities involves the development and integration of new technologies and services, including technologies used for public safety and security. This session will consider SMART ‘surveillance’ and how surveillance oriented technologies are evolving novel in smart city environments. Issues covered include: the emergence of SMART surveillance systems, the degree to which they are transparent and accountable, how they are regulated and governed, and potential future developments in technology and practice. Technologies specifically considered include SMART CCTV, social media and drones.

• (ch) Judith Rauhofer, University of Edinburgh
• David Murakami Wood, Queen’s University, Ontario, Canada
• William Webster, Centre for Research into Information, Surveillance and Privacy, University of Stirling
• Paul Mackie, CameraWatch
• Daniel Trottier, Erasmus University, Rotterdam, Netherlands

• (ch) Karen Turner, Centre for Energy Policy, University of Strathclyde
• Francesco Sindico, Strathclyde Centre for Environmental Law and Governance – ‘Are cities smarter than States when it comes to climate change?’
• Melissa Low, Energy Studies Institute, National University of Singapore – ‘Energy Smart Cities: Perspectives from a City-State, Singapore’
• Stuart McIntyre, Strathclyde Business School, Department of Economics – ‘Feed-in Tariff design in the UK; cities and economic inequality’
• Colin Reid, Wheatley Group – ‘Glasgow: a Case Study in housing regeneration through energy, environment and sustainable communities’

• (ch) Mark Poustie, University of Strathclyde
• Branka Dimitrijevic, University of Strathclyde – ‘From transition towns to smart cities: Opportunities and challenges’
• Holger Schnadelbach, Embodied Adaptive Architecture’, University of Nottingham
• John Miles, Cambridge University – ‘The Challenge of Driverless Cars’
• Daithi Mac Sithigh, University of Newcastle – ‘Joe Chamberlain’s Smartphone: local government and the sharing economy’

Smart cities are not just economic or surveillance entities, but positive places for the public to engage, for grassroots participation and perhaps for better or even new forms of artistic and sporting endeavour. Our panelists will report from Glasgow, Ghent and Edinburgh on how network connections can be made in smart cities at a social level; how participation in sporting events can be extended to engender legacy; and what challenges there are for bottom up citizen participation in the “smart cities idea”.

• (ch) Philip Schlesinger, University of Glasgow
• Robert Rogerson, University of Strathclyde
• Chris Speed, Edinburgh College of Art, University of Edinburgh
• Dieter Cuypers, VITO, Belgium, ‘Embracing bottom up – the case of the Trojan Lab in Ghent (BE) and its Living Streets’

• • Key Note – Rob Procter, University of Warwick – ‘How do Smart Cities Promote Social Welfare?’

This keynote will explore the tensions between the top-down, technocratic vision of the smart city, as delivered by professional urban scientists, with the simultaneous emergence of bottom-up, community-led ‘citizen urban science’. Procter will suggest that realising the benefits of smart cities depends on being able to reconcile the two.