自下而上建设智慧城市

目前,智慧城市的创新始终由科技公司主导,鼓励创造革新技术,让居民被动消费而非主动创造。为扭转这一局面,笔者研究了一种通过软件来运转的替代模式,对技术连接城市涉及的规划法规、经济运作、实体结构进行编码,并允许公民(甚至那些技术能力有限的公民)参与智慧城市的建设。这些软件是在MVRDV的维尼·马斯(Winy Maas)和研究机构"The Why Factory"的引导下开发的,演示了智慧城市将如何从政府和科技公司创造的自上而下的单一产品,转变为由智慧市民通过不懈努力主导的自下而上的智慧城市新产物。

Bottom-Up Smart Cities

Smart cities innovation is currently dominated by technology companies, who are incentivised to create technologies in which residents are passive consumers, rather than active citizens. This paper investigates an alternative model, in which the planning regulations, economics, and physical structures of a technologically connected city are encoded in software that allows citizens, even those with modest technological ability, to participate in the construction of the smart city. These softwares, developed under the guidance of Winy Maas at MVRDV and The Why Factory, show how smart cities might be changed from a top-down product created by governments and technology companies, to a bottom-up endeavour led by technologically empowered smart citizens.