How do you think the cities of tomorrow could be?
By Larissa Paredes Muse1 (April 08th, 2020)
Have you thought about the opportunity we have to change the direction of the cities towards a more sustainable and less unequal future?
In the post-pandemic scenario, smart urban solutions have been considered to break with the unsustainable model of cities and society that we have built.
I particularly believe that we must rethink the cities of tomorrow so that they can be less polluted, that we must curb the pattern of excessive consumption, reduce displacement, revitalize urban centers and abandoned buildings, recover the deteriorated and precarious urban areas, encourage mixed use soil, sustainable popular housing and give preference to local food traders and producers.
We are witnessing during this period of Social Distancing that this is more than possible: these solutions are economically viable and necessary to guarantee the resilience of the city and the survival of the population.
The world has not stopped because of Coronavirus, in fact it is reinventing itself. Society is more creative and focusing on the essentials, using technology to keep most of the productive sector active. Cities are breaking with the Anthropocene paradigm, which is an obsolete model.
Urban governments and managers need to understand that if we do not change the way cities are structured, there is no way to guarantee the well-being of the population in an equal and democratic way.
How do you think tomorrow's cities could be?
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1Urban planner and MSc. in Urban Engineering by the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, with a research about Street Lighting in the Context of Smart Cities. Vice-chair of of the IEEE Smart City Planning and Technology Standard P2784 and Member of the Brazilian Network for Smart & Human Cities.
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4 年Maybe to accomplish your (appropriately prioritized) goal of local food sourcing, we could incentivize procurement of local farms, maybe via tax credits? Economies of scale of farming could be distributed more evenly across the geographies due to 1)online sharing of modern farming best practices 2)leverage economies of scale at the farm equipment industrial level to ship things Once, instead of encouraging economies of scale at the food level, causing more shipments of food from the mega-source You got me thinking!