Streets ahead what makes a city innovative

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Menu Menu Topics Topics. Blogs Blogs. Print Edition. The Economist apps. Economist Films. Economist Radio. I am interested in the workshop. We are a multidisciplinary team working on urban development, energy, infrastructure and also emergency management- stressing the need for a holistic look at sustainability for cities of the future. Many thanks for your comment. It would be useful if you could share details of your work, it sounds very interesting!

Could you please email me at — leena. Densely populated urban spaces depend on task-oriented systems and innovation for delivery of necessary services to sustain functions and well being of citizens. The collection of complex configurations that run the built environment, developed and adjusted over long periods of time, due to population growth, continue to confront ecological balance and increasing demand for depleting natural resources, stretch capacity of existing capital infrastructural assets whilst presenting major obstacles in resource management.

The task ahead is by no means simple. As we move from a dialog on sustainability, towards discussions which address near future scarcity; research methodology, design methods and tools for defining, abstracting, modelling required analysis remain incomplete.

As well, the current economic climate, broken dialog and fragmented efforts among stakeholders continue to harbour reluctance towards major investment in necessary upgrades to insure planning for a new architectural order as well as fresh typologies with embedded resilience, interoperable supply systems, efforts towards conservation of biodiversity, promotion of sustainable practice by industries and further encouragement of sustainable behaviour in communities.

TSB is in a unique position to format interdisciplinary conversations and connections on sustainability in the built environment that lead to new knowledge, based on an open dialog which forms frames of reference, through dissemination of existing academic research and available private sector as well as NGO initiatives for structured knowledge transfer and collaboration among likeminded bodies which may lead to strong deliverables and disruptive innovation.

A number of interrelated concerns with direct impact on community needs, governments and private companies, in conjunction with range of social, economic as well as environmental objectives can be addressed at various scales to test interoperability as well as diverse innovation through use of available, yet underutilised technologies, for urgently needed adjustments in city systems, simultaneously and systematically, for a long-lasting legacy. If you have not already, I strongly recommend that you join the group.

Best wishes, Leena. Florida says Melburnians are "hungrier" than Sydneysiders, whose city risks becoming a "playground for the rich". He warns the greatest threat to Sydney's creative ranks is property prices, so Sydney "needs to make itself more affordable for artists and musicians". Melbourne was 23rd. City housing prices and rental shortages - particularly in Sydney - might persuade low-paid creative people to give up their craft.

Under Florida's very liberal definition, a whopping 51 per cent of Melbourne's and Sydney's inner-city workforces belong to the "creative class". A more conservative estimate by the Creative Industries Research Centre at the Queensland University of Technology suggests about 4 to 5 per cent of Australian workers earning a living out of creative jobs.

Florida believes businesses and cities will need to try hard to attract creative workers by becoming more liveable. South African-born Adams, who lived briefly in Sydney in before taking up the post at the City of Melbourne, laid out 20 years of the Melbourne strategy plan. The success of the public realm depended on better streets, he said. Melburnians know about the transformation of their city, but the detail was news to Sydneysiders, used to their own city plans being repeatedly trashed over 60 years in favour of developer expediency, their roads gridlocked with cars.

What you've done is put a dirty great road down one side and another dirty great road down the other. Pedestrian Sydneysiders should have easier access to Darling Harbour, Adams said, issuing this clarion call: "You rest on your laurels with the harbour, and as long as you can get a harbour view, everything else tends to fall back.