Tag: W03 – Tabula Rasa: New Songdo

Songdo — Zhicheng Zhang

1. numerous sensors are setup in Songdo, and a demonstration control room is used for monitoring and maintenance of the city. These remind me the experiment in Chile 1970. Is the cybernetic model the prototype of the smart city today? if it is not. what is the essential difference between these two?

2.  “the smart grids offer two tricks to even out the peaks: load shifting and load shedding”. It seems that the smart grid is still a medication that suppresses the symptom without treating the condition. It tries to remove the peaks by forcing the people stop using the electricity during the peaks. In the end, are the net-zero buildings the only treatment of this condition?

3. The idea of smart city bases on the infrastructure which is quite different than the old one. This is why the test-bed is a brand new city, instead of a district in an old city. The idea of Songdo is to test a new model for the smart city. For the rising cities could be a good example, however, for those developed cities. will Songdo be a good example of the smart city?

Tabula Rasa: New Songdo

Urbanization and Ubiquity: Power Platform – Anthony Townsend

 

  • The Smart Grid offers a more efficient, reliable, secure, and less costly transmission and usage of electricity. How must our current power grid change to incorporate the Smart Grid? How much can a Smart City accomplish on our current power grid?

 

Smart Urbanism: Utopian Vision or False Dawn?: Data, an urban resource – Halpren, LeCavalier, Calvillo, Pietsch

 

  • The author states, “In either case, both Cisco and IFEZ are looking for new sources of revenue and hope to ‘monetize’ the attentive capacity of Songdo’s inhabitants. Their hope is to use the latent reverse of data gathered on users to produce services that can be paid for through advertising in multiple-scale devices, electronic education, physical treatment, home tele-medicine or any number of other speculative services vying for a share of this new market.” So in other words, both Cisco and IFEZ are charging Songdo inhabitants for some of the services entailed in the Smart City, to then use this data to generate advertisements, thus monetizing their attentive capacity? If so, how does this affect what makes the city “smart”?