PPT-Real-Time Cities: an Introduction to Urban Cybernetics

Harvard Design School SCI 0646900 Spring 2014 Student Name Surname Exercise 2 Case Studies in Data Analysis 5 Ways to Make a Story out of Numbers Urban Civic Innovation 1 burble 2 thingful. Mindell 1 Introduction Cybernetics is the study of humanmachine interaction guided by the principle that numerous different types of systems can be studied according to principles of feedback control and communications The field has a quantitative c Ed . Glaeser. Harvard University. “I regard the growth of cities as an evil thing, unfortunate for mankind and the world. ”. Country. Largest City. (Population). Percent Urbanized. Percent. in Million+ Agglomeration>. Class 1:. Introduction. Urban Policy: Introduction . Class Outline. Review Course Requirements and Readings. Introduce American Cities. Introduce Census Urban Geography. Urban Policy: Introduction . . Advanced Placement Human Geography. Session 1. Urban Geography. What is urban geography?. Urban geography focuses on:. how cities . function. the internal . systems. and . structures. of cities. Find an image to represent an urban environment . Explain why you’ve chosen it . What is an urban area? . http://unstats.un.org/unsd/demographic/sconcerns/densurb/Defintion_of%20Urban.pdf. . Identify similarities and differences . .. Wayne . K. D. Davies,. Geography. , University of Calgary,. Canada.. (wdavies@ucalgary.ca). Week 1: What is Urban?. Keywords. City. Urban. Urbanized areas. Suburbs. Metropolis, metropolitan area. MSA. CSA. Urbanized place. Urbanized country. Conurbation. Megalopolis. What is urban? Sometimes it’s very clear. America’s Urban Origins. Cities played a different role in the 18. th. , 19. th. and 20. th. centuries. Technological change has been an important factor in determining the role and importance of cities across time. . Advanced Placement Human Geography. Session 3. Early Urbanization . Around the Mediterranean. Early Settlements. Settlements were . originally. established in the area around the eastern . . Advanced Placement Human Geography. Session 3. Early Urbanization . Around the Mediterranean. Early Settlements. Settlements were . originally. established in the area around the eastern . RESEARCHING AGE-FRIENDLY CITIES: AN OVERVIEW OF CURRENT RESEARCH ISSUES AND PRIORITIES CHRIS PHILLIPSON Sociology/MICRA The University of Manchester, UK AREAS FOR DISCUSSION Background to the ‘age-friendly’ approach Speaker:. . Natália . Susana . Silva. . Regional . Fund for Science and Technology of the Azores. EXPAND II - Widening participation of countries and stakeholders in JPI Urban Europe through capacity building in urban policy, funding and research. The Preindustrial City: Past. . and Present. (1960). Sjoberg said that all cities were a product of their societies and went through stages:. Folk-preliterate. Feudal. Preindustrial. Urban-industrial. Philip McCann*. Special Adviser to the EU Commissioner for Regional Policy, Corina Creţu. with Lewis Dijkstra EC. and Enrique Garcilazo OECD. University of Groningen. * I am grateful to the European Commission Directorate-General for Regional and Urban Policy and to the OECD Department for Regional Development Policy for allowing me to use their figures and diagrams.