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Master in City Sciences at UPM
A practical case of an interdisciplinary
educational program in the field of urban
studies
Dr. Sergio Ramos
Associate Lecturer. Facultad Ciencias Económicas y Empresariales – UNED.
[email protected]
Innovation & Venture Lab Manager. Master in City Sciences – UPM. [email protected]
URBAN FUTURE
Why not another Smart City Program?
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A city that monitors and integrates conditions of all of its critical infrastructures, including roads, bridges, tunnels, rails,
subways, airports, seaports, communications, water, power, even major buildings, can better optimize its resources, plan its
preventive maintenance activities, and monitor security aspects while maximizing services to its citizens.
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A city “connecting the physical infrastructure, the IT infrastructure, the social infrastructure, and the business infrastructure to
leverage the collective intelligence of the city”
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A city “combining ICT and Web 2.0 technology with other organizational, design and planning efforts to dematerialize and speed
up bureaucratic processes and help to identify new, innovative solutions to city management complexity, in order to improve
sustainability and livability”
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“The use of Smart Computing technologies to make the critical infrastructure components and services of a city – which
include city administration, education, healthcare, public safety, real estate, transportation, and utilities – more intelligent,
interconnected, and efficient”
The new intelligence of cities, then, resides in the increasingly effective combination of digital telecommunication networks (the
nerves), ubiquitously embedded intelligence (the brains), sensors and tags (the sensory organs), and software (the knowledge and
cognitive competence).
“Understanding Smart Cities: An Integrative Framework”, 2012, 45th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences,
pp. 2289-2297, IEEE Computer Society
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Urban society growth
2010
50%
2050
75%
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The City as the neuralgic center
CULTURE
ECONOMY
INNOVATION
SOCIETY
… and many others
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Questions? A holistic vision for a complex problem
Main
challenges
for a city in
the XXI
century
How can
these goals
be layered
or
prioritized?
The
citizen’s
obligations
with the city
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Cities
improving
the citizen’s
quality of
life today?
The human
dimensions
of the XXI
century
city?
The new
city-citizenstakeholder
interaction
Goals and
objectives
of a city
with its
citizenship
Services
that
citizens
should
receive
from a city
Can new
technology
help in this
purpose?
Stakeholders involved
Who are the
professionals
answering the
questions?
Sociologists &
technicians role
in this new
challenge
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Interdisciplinary
people and
authorities needed
to manage it
Appropriate players
& policies for this
new challenge
Which services
should be addressed
first and what for?
How should citizens
be involved in a new
city formulation?
URBAN EDUCATION
Traditional education: Isolated Topics
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Reality is interconnected
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MCS as an answer
www.citysciences.co
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School of
Civil
Engineering
Research
Center for
Digital Homes
School of
Industrial
Engineering
School of
Telecomm
Engineering
UNIVERSIDAD POLITÉCNICA DE MADRID
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School of
Architecture
MCS. The format
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Classes
Seminars
Foundation subjects
on different issues of
cities: Technologies,
facilities, services,
processes, rights, etc
Short courses of selfcontained subjects
where problems and
existing and potential
solutions are presented
by professionals
New city topics and
views from world-class
experts. Academy &
Industry
On how known cities and
service providers
implement their solutions
to solve situations and
problems
Advised personal work
(@industry, city or
consulting firm)
developing a specific
issue of a city
Conferences
Visits
Thesis
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Educating professionals for the XXI century city
Stakeholders involved in the training as trainers and trainees
Academia, Industry, Policy makers, Regulators, Users
What fields, services and technologies *? Among others …
Waste and Air Quality
Transport and Mobility
Energy and Environment
Urban Planning
New and Retrofit architecture
Health and Education
Governance and Democracy
Safety and Security
Utilities: water, fuel, smart-grids ...
Big Data and ICT
Internet of Thing
Commerce and Business
*see Global City Indicators Facility (GCIF)
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The content: a bottom-up feasible city approach
City physical profile & size
• Demography, climate, economy, …
City Components/Needs (Morphology)
• Housing, Work, Transport…
City Objectives (Individual & Social)
• Basic supplies, Culture, Democracy, …
City Services & Policies
• Technology, Health, Education, …
The Citizen. Quality of Life
• Economy, Justice, Government, …
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MSC: main AREAS
CITY
SCIENCES
BASICS
ENERGY
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ICT & NEXT
GENERATION
NETWORKS
ECOLOGICAL
URBANISM
TRANSPORT &
MOBILITY
ENVIRONMENT &
SUSTAINABILITY
URBAN
DESIGN
INNOVATION &
ENTREPRENEURIAL
MANAGEMENT
SOCIETY &
GOVERNANCE
ECONOMY &
BUSINESS
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OVERCAMING BARRIERS
Overcoming barriers: enabling factors and methods (I)
Tools or
methods/
time
Methodological Linguistic
Knowledge
production
Time
Cultural and
Social
Funding
Politics
Structural/
Institutional*
(Lyall and
Meagher,
2008)
Design of
proposal
Reduced team of
leading
proponents –
Entrepreneurial
approach
Drafting a map of
core areas,
subjects, links
and
interdependence
s
Lean Startup
approach: build,
measure, learn
Leading team to
generate traction
within the
academic and
professional
community
Leading team
own seed money
to explore the
concept
Involving the key
person at
University
(President)
Supporting a
more ambitious
approach of UPM
in the field of
Cities, being the
MCS only an
initiative
Discount on the
management fee
for UPM
UPM President
changed, no
longer discounts
applicable…
Other programs
claiming for
similar support..
Builiding
consensus on the
city sciences
concept
Funding
(access to
funding)
Process
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Selection of areas
and core
coordinators
responsible for
builiding their own
syllabus and
selecting
professors
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General
objectives settled
by coordinators.
Professors with
freedom to
design, discuss
and reorient.
Overcoming barriers: enabling factors and methods (II)
Tools or
methods/
time
Methodological Linguistic
Dissemination/
implementation
City Sciences as
a wider concept
thand smart
cities
Evaluation
Continuation
Crosscutting
issues
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Builiding on the
city sciences
concept through
a
communication
plan
Concept gaining
momentum…
Competitors
emerging...
From an entire
master program
to shorter
specialization
courses
MCS Case Study. Dr. Sergio Ramos
Knowledge
production
Time
Cultural and
Social
Funding
Politics
Structural/
Institutional*
(Lyall and
Meagher,
2008)
Direct contacts
and interviews
with
stakeholders
Great program
so far, from the
point of view of
students
New research
area to develop:
Cities as
entrepreneurial
ecosystems
No more UPM
support on
discounts
Openness, transparency, leading team of risks takers…
Looking for new
partnerts for
2017