Pre-Conference Workshop
Advanced Training in Smart Cities
Date: 21 – 22 June, 2019
Venue: Z207, 2/F, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Registration: 9:00am
Programme:
21 June 2019
AM Session (9:30am - 12:30pm): Smart Cities: The North American Experience
Prof. Michael Goodchild
Emeritus Professor of Geography, University of California, Santa Barbara;
Distinguished Chair Professor, LSGI, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Session 1:
- Introduction: the geospatial dimensions of Smart City
- Spatial thinking: what it means to think spatially about the city
- The changing context: data, communications, computation
- Research questions: what can we do with all the new resources?
- Crowdsourcing and volunteered geographic information: engagement of the public
- Space versus place: adapting technology to the citizen
- Big data: volume, velocity, and variety
- The Fourth Paradigm
- Applications of Big Data: understanding or prediction?
- Arguments against Big Data
- Real-time science?
Session 2:
- Spatial data infrastructure
- Early activities and lessons learned
- Updating the vision, rethinking the stages
- Geospatial infrastructure, a vision for the future
- The privacy issue
Background reading
- M.F. Goodchild (2018) GIScience for a driverless age. International Journal of Geographical Information Science 32(5) 849–855. DOI: 10.1080/13658816.2018.1440397
- M.F. Goodchild (2018) Reimagining the history of GIS. Annals of GIS 24(1): 1–8. DOI: 10.1080/19475683.2018.1424737.
- M.F. Goodchild (2018) Big geodata. In B. Huang, editor, Comprehensive Geographic Information Systems. Vol. 1, pp. 19–25. Oxford: Elsevier. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-409548-9.09595-6
- H.J. Miller and M.F. Goodchild (2014) Data-driven geography. GeoJournal 80(4) : 449–461. DOI: 10.1007/s10708-014-9602-6.
PM Session (2:00pm - 4:30pm): Smart Cities in Asia
Prof. Shi Wen-zhong, John
Director of Laboratory for Smart City and Spatial Big Data Analytics
Otto Poon Charitable Foundation Professor in Urban Informatics;
Chair Professor of Geographical Information Science and Remote Sensing;
Head of LSGI, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Topics:
- Smart Cities: The Asian Experience
- Latest Developments in Urban Informatics and Smart Cities
22 June 2019
AM Session (9:30am - 12:30pm): Smart Cities in Europe
Prof. Michael Batty
Bartlett Professor of Planning, University College London;
Distinguished Chair Professor, LSGI, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
This session will be divided into two parts:
- The Concept of Smart Cities
- Based in embedding computers into the fabcric of the city and developing plans that take account of such embedding. We will focus on the high frequency city.
- Urban Analytics
- Based on methods for simulating cities for aiding planning the smart city.
Registration Fee: HK$900
Who should attend:
This workshop is designed for government officials, researchers, managers and professionals of smart city-related industries, who wish to receive new perspectives, insights and valuable experience from world-leading academics and scientists. The workshop also provides a perfect platform to network and meet with fellow smart city practitioners and professionals from the public and private sectors.
