City Protocol Empowering and Improving Cities Through Collaboration
Meet the Presenter Jim Aloisi City Protocol Editor CPTF Steering Committee jaloisi@cityprotocol.org 2
WHAT IS CITY PROTOCOL SOCIETY? We are a nonprofit membership-based association of cities, corporations, research groups and nonprofits that collaboratively develops and provides common solutions and solution platforms aimed at building a more self-sufficient future A COMMUNITY OF PRACTICE Incorporated: San Francisco Presidency: Amsterdam Secretariat: Barcelona Video at: https://youtu.be/rv3wuyojlra
CITY PROTOCOL TASK FORCE Open Community of Experts Define a common systems view for cities of any size or type (multi-city, multicultural, multi-partner and scale-free) Do research & development (R&D) activities Develop protocols for interoperable solutions that can work across city silos and across cities Document all results Facilitate C2C, C2B, B2C, B2B initiatives Working and Learning Together @ City Protocol Society
What Are We About? Helping Cities Engage A Transformative & Transitional Era By Offering Them - Resources Agora Support Protocols gleaned from Practice
Managing Innovation in the 21 st Century Cities are challenged to provide a vast array of critical services that sustain quality of life (if not life itself) in environments that are often constrained by age, geography, and financial resources. City leaders embrace the notion of innovation but often need assistance finding the right approaches.
What Do Cities Want? Improve delivery of services Collect data & transform it into actionable information Systems that enable rapid response Systems that save money over time Systems that increase functionality & efficiency
What else do Cities Want? Every city wants to be a Smart City, but there is no consensus about what this means, or how to achieve it. Cities that want to be Smart Cities really want to implement proven, low-risk and costfriendly methods of improving service delivery.
What do Cities Need? Cites need a low-risk approach to managing and implementing innovation. Therefore... Cities need a menu of user-friendly, costeffective and field-proven approaches to improving service delivery & quality of life. Cities need the confidence to know that strategies are tested and/or curated by an independent community of global thought leaders and experts.
The City Protocol Approach City Protocol can make Smart practical and achievable by (i) advancing collaboration among key practitioners, businesses and thought leaders (ii) curating a rigorous practice to protocol approach to identifying solutions that have been tested in the field, and (iii) developing a city platform to SHARE solutions, establish common understanding and language, organize C2C collaboration and learning, adopt a common frame to develop tools.
The City Protocol View: Transforming cities in the 21 st century Successful cities in the 21 st Century will be those that: Blend Coherence with Diversity Respect History & Embrace Modernity Establish Sustainable Mobility & Energy Platforms Break Down Silos of 20 th Century Service Delivery
Blending Coherence With Diversity Cities should be easy to navigate, with an internal legibility that creates a sense of safety and of place. How can technology help improve this internal legibility?
Respecting History While Embracing Modernity A city s history often reflects its identity, the identity of its citizens, and informs its aspirations. This sense of self is ingrained in the identities of its citizens. How can technology respond to and enhance a city s sense of itself?
Establishing a Sustainable Mobility Platform Cities have historically been connected internally and externally through mobility corridors. Mobility is critical to economic health, social equity & quality of life. How can technology help create Sustainable Mobility platforms?
Establishing a Sustainable Energy Platform Cities must harness the power of new energy systems that are interactive, enabling consumers to be users and providers. How can technology create or enhance a Sustainable Energy platform?
Breaking Down the Silos of 20 th Century Service Delivery Successful 21 st Century cities will understand and act upon the connected nature of energy, transportation and communications services. How can we help cities break down silos, leverage the power of a connected global internet of cities, and empower citizens to behave as interactive, informed decision makers?
City Protocol s Functional Platform Curated Foundational Documents that Guide Our Approach & Enable A Common Systems View of City Transformation Learning from Practice Through Specific City Projects & Developing Protocols By Exploring Project Elements That Can Illuminate Global Best Practices.
FOUNDATIONAL DOCUMENTS COMPLETED City Anatomy Establishes the Central Conceptual Framework for City Protocol Anatomy Ontology Establishes a common vocabulary and formal knowledge model for the City Anatomy City Indicators Establishes Actionable Performance Metrics & Expands ISO 37120 Livable Districts Establishes the Framework for City Transformational Projects
City Anatomy City Anatomy establishes a common language by which all of City Protocol is organized. It is a science-based, systems view of all the subsystems and layered elements which make up a City. City Projects descriptions of city-centered projects which focus on a specific scope of city challenge. City Projects are the sources of Protocol Elements and act as content anchors for City Protocol. Their source can be City Protocol Task Teams, CPS members, Partners, and others. City Protocol Elements reusable, consistently structured, inter-linked protocol elements including: definitions, problem statements, field feedbacks, use cases, indicators, data model/ontologies, and solution descriptions.
The City Protocol Differentiator: City Anatomy Treats Cities as Complex & Adaptive Ecosystems A new way to think about cities as living organisms with attributes that cross geographies, cultures and political frameworks. City Anatomy provides the common language and conceptualization that enables collaboration, research & development, and solutions development in an agnostic environment.
IDENTIFY COMMONALITIES IN INTERESTS & OBJECTIVES Need to share strategies and adopt a common platform generate, adopt, adapt and implement sharable city solutions share knowledge with a common language organize C2C and B2C collaboration and learning frame the development of common tools for effective governance, evaluation and transformation A city is an ecosystem physical structure living entities that it contains flow of interactions and information Cities are Ecosystems
Human Anatomy City Anatomy City Anatomy (timeless, acultural, scalable and generic) common language to share knowledge common platform to share solutions common city-centered collaborative R&D space to learn together common frame to develop tools and digital solutions common rationale to integrate diversity and the work of many A system of systems and interactions
CITY ANATOMY EVALUATION FRAMEWORK
ANATOMY INDICATORS. How can our city be more self-sufficient? improve mobility? be resilient? attract talent & investment? improve social equity? attain livability for all? ISO 37120 [46 core; 54 supporting] CP [59 core; 37 supporting]
Sample Indicators: Built Domain 3.3.A Core Built domain indicators 3.3.A.1 Core Built domain indicators CP 3.3.A.1.1 Building age index: % Housing >=50 years CITY ANATOMY relationship: Building/Block Description: This indicator measures the antiquity of buildings in a given area, defined as the percentage of housing in an area that hasn t been extensively rebuilt for 50 years or more. Uses: Knowledge of the age of buildings in a city is fundamental to assessing its characteristics, which can be related to a variety of issues such as its energy efficiency, expansion capabilities, structural integrity, seismic resilience, and many others. Thus proper knowledge of the building age index in a given area is key to assessing many of the objectives defined in the introduction of this document. Calculation: Number of buildings with an age index greater than 50 years/total number of buildings 100 This indicator is calculated as a percentage (%). 3.3.A.1.2 Neighborhood homogeneity CITY ANATOMY relationship: Neighborhood/District Description: Percentage of population with simultaneous nearby access to at least 4 different types of services from a range of 6 categories. These categories are: cinemas, gyms, basic public or private healthcare, public transport access, social welfare points, and social meeting centers. Uses: Appropriate levels of this indicator work in favor of several of the objectives outlined in this document, for example: self-sufficiency (thanks to a more compactly built city contributing to less energy usage and emissions), improved mobility (because of the effects of compactness on car usage), and improved quality of life (thanks to the access to different kinds of public and private services). Calculation: Population with access to 4 everyday activities/total population 100 This indicator is calculated as a percentage (%).
ANATOMY ONTOLOGY Competency (questions) Organization (taxonomy) Relevant terms (vocabulary) Relationships (terms/definitions) Water cycle CITY ANATOMY hascons tuent Structure subsystem owl:subclassof Infrastructures Cycle Ma er cycle Nature cycle Energy cycle haslayer Layer of structure hascons tuent hascons tuent Environment hascons tuent hascons tuent Build domain hascons tuent Soil compartment owl:subclassof owl:subclassof owl:subclassof Network Build domain element Administra ve Build domain element owl:subclassof Physical Build domain element Communica on network Mobility network Metropolis City District Public Space House Building Environmental compartment Air compartment Water compartment Block Neighborhood
Livable Cities & Districts Urban community living in a structure that fulfills all societal needs with highly performing interactions (exchanges) people oriented, for social equity and empowerment ICT enabled for enhanced performance and interactions
FOUNDATIONAL PROTOCOLS. LIVABLE CITIES/DISTRICTS-3
A Global Collaboration to Advance City Transformations Identifying best practices Developing protocols Enabling collaboration For More Information on City Protocol: See: http://cityprotocol.org Write: secretariat@cityprotocol.org Contribute Content: editor@cptf.cityprotocol.org
A Practical Guide to Protocol Development Protocol Development compiles information provided by Task Teams, society members and partners, and other invited contributors. The Guide to Protocol Development is a how to summary that includes templates for all submittals. 34
Protocol Development: How it Works Protocol submittals are sourced from City Projects. These come from City Protocol Task Teams (resulting in Agreements) or from Society Members, Partners and global contributors (resulting in Contributions). 35
A Guide to Protocol Development: Submittals should be sent to: City Protocol Editor, editor@cptf.cityprotocol.org. Submittal Review by CP Editor Revisions as Necessary Final Deliverable 36
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