we have cities how do we make them smarter where do we begin. with what i really tried to do in the book was to almost. bank a lot of the hype that the idea of using information technology to tackle the problems of cities is a new thing we've been doing this since the ten thousand years. they go there first day a nomad sat down and decided to plant the farm and then markets and government and religious sites grew up around that writing was the first information technology and it arose at the same time as the first human settlements if you look at our own industrialization and urban growth in the u.s. and europe in the late one nine hundred century you had technologies like the telegraph and the telephone punch card machines that could tabulate data very quickly those technologies were invented precisely to govern massive growing cities of unprecedented size and that's really what we're doing again now but i think where we need to start is with problems and not with solutions and you know we're about five or six years into the smart cities movement really started in two thousand

for the first time in human history more than half of all people on earth live in cities and over the coming decades that number will grow so much that by twenty thirty the world health organization estimates estimates that six out of ten people live in urban areas so right now cities across the world are experimenting with new technologies to solve old problems like transportation and waste disposal i guess for tonight's conversations of the great minds anthony townsend a senior research fellow at n.y.u. has written center for transportation and has written a link about this phenomenon as well as its potential dangers in his new book smart city big data civic akers' and the quest for a new utopia and then he joins us from our new york studios anthony walker. great to be here thanks for joining us let's start with you what what gets somebody so interested in animated about urban planning issues that they dig in and write a brilliant book like this. well i was recently graduated student from rutgers university back in one thousand nine hundred four and i had my degree in urban studies

cities of the culmination of globalization. nowhere else in the world a conflict so strongly concentrated as here. cities are a behemoth and the savior bustling with possibilities yet vulnerable. those wanting to harm a society ambushed the city and its daily life a. city's a defenseless against this form of terrorism. their inhabitants vulnerable. how do cities respond to this threat. and how does fit change our open lifestyle. people living in a little. city or at sites it's incredible cities all of human life. sediment patients of all of human history they all landscapes of power. london once the heart of the british empire. along with new york and home culture still the center of the global financial industry. symbol and driving force behind the international monetary flow. twelve million inhabitants over three hundred languages countless ethnicities and culture has london is a prototype of a global network megacity and elaborate. three for security measures a lot of the changes in cities since the nine eleven terror attacks in new york wa

in europe's largest in a city construction project. see here that's our goal was to recreate a hard for a berth in. the wall was only one hundred meters from here and we had the death strip here and you know it was a desert and here you have a vista. of the reunification in one nine hundred ninety the berlin municipal government turned over the rebuilding of the square to private investors who implemented their own concept of a high rise city with the purchase the investors not only developed and constructed the streets and squares they also acquired the rights of passage for the public space. it is the investors who ultimately decide who is allowed to be here. to put some up front find my thoughts dumber plots was actually once the heart of europe ice and we had the busiest streets with the first traffic light ever built in germany or from lauren europe and for that matter. potsdamer platz was really vibrant dunes and the press district was nearby the famous house. tells a great music halls cinema and walls it was a really lively place

city is a dense environment. the land is really expensive. if you want to grow things in the city, you have to go vertical, and to go vertical you have to develop tactical solutions. crack vertical farming, how does it work? how much global area you can get out of the building. growing things vertical ali make sense if you don't have enough land where you want to grow your food. the way that we solve it is from building, constructing a building where you don't work with horizontal stories. instead we have an open construction using a helical shape, but much -- which lets much more sunlight into the core of the building. then we have a logistics system for how to move our crops at the same time as they grow inside vertical building. >> when will the plantagon begin producing and what will it produce? 2013.the end of depends on the local authorities. we are ready to start building at this stage. we will have a production of 300 to 500 tons every year. on that building, the footprint on the ground is 400 square meters. that is the whole point of doing things vertical. on the

again, we are in an expensive city. wever, what we can do at the board is in sure that we promote and provide for both affordable and middle-class housing in the city. i think it is so important that we maintain our diversity in san francisco and who we are as a people and we really stay true to those values. the large part, insuring something that we want to focus on and i want to focus on, making sure that there are housing opportunities for our first responders to be here in san francisco and living here, police officers, firefighters, sheriffs, teachers -- people that provide such essential services for our community, to make sure they have opportunities in san francisco to buy homes, set up groups as a family and really be integrated into our neighborhoods. to me, that is what we should be doing and, again, something we should be doing. >> let's talk again about transportation in your district. is there adequate service? let's talk about parking and traffic. tell us a little bit about district 2. >> district 2 defin

ninety ninety three a truck with sixteen tons of explosives detonates in the city of london the only brings terror to the capital and demonstrates to the british establishment we can hit you right in the center of your power. it's the worst of a series of attacks and a painful reminder of this is he's vulnerable ety and hopelessness an act never to be repeated. banks administration and police resolved to implement a system of continuous monitoring of the city send through limiting access routes building checkpoints i didn't stalling countless surveillance cameras. hey we're standing by one of the checkpoints in the so-called ring of steel over here. which was established in the ninety ninth cease following some of the terrorist attacks by the irish republican army finance call of london the so-called city. it was an effort to basically control access and so use the surveillance cameras as you can see here to create checkpoints around a smaller number of roads going into the financial core of the city and the idea is that you have also made the system fall registering and checking the

allowed in a democratic society. three d. model of the citydesigned by the german aerospace institute in berlin to simulate been development. from a simulation of the real city to the creation of a virtual parallel urban environment a future in which computers communicate with other computers without people. where an internet of things develops. florian make a helis from the swiss federal institute of technology in zurich is working on the realisation of the ubiquity of computers a combination of physical objects in virtual space the internet of things. versus vs under fifteen is what we mean is really the spreading of the internet from computers into the real world to include real objects products and things like this could begin with products that simply have a number on them to find out where something is this could be products with sensors on them it could also apply to automobiles in order to register location data and gather information from it actually the integration of various properties objects even humans in order to be able to offe

it's in the cutting age to ensure that multilingual populations are informed of what's going on here in city hall. i want to thank supervisor chiu for his partnership in working with our office in the last year to make sure we put together a comprehensive packet that i think speaks to the best ethical tradition that we all do in the business here in city hall. supervisor chiu, thank you, supervisor breed, supervisor tang i hope you will consider this legislation and hope to have your support because the public depends on it and expects no lesson ethical sessions will. thank you. >> >>president david chiu: thank you for your partnership on this and i want to talk about more details and open it up to initial public comment that we know will result in future hearings on this topic. but as our city attorney eluded to that part of this definition is the lobbyist is an individual who receives or is promised economic consideration of $3,000 or more, because the language has been ambiguous on the ordinance to the there is a distinction between contract lobbyist to get paid any amounts to contact any

you're in a city of innovation and the french have brought so much here today wear in city hall and yourost is mayor ed lee who women's to you to this city hall who has a great deal to talk about the french architecture. thank you, mr. president for coming west after your visit in washington, d.c. pr it's n a little in congress so you, you came across the united states to study fast foods but we welcome you here today. and san francisco we hope that not only you learn about all the innovation but i also know you'll see the hospitality and see the french influence and the cultural that's plausible here in 1839 the first immigrants came and brought others. there's someone here who knows about the city hall. he's been a supervisor and the mayor of san francisco and now may, i.e., present the great governor gavin newsom >> thank you good to be back. on behalf of governor jerry brown and in a great deal state welcome mr. president, it's an honor to have you here. i was thinking about this all over the world people pickup nations and nations are being torn apart by racism and others things. yo

how many of these known spaces in a city and. and where can one lead to free urban life in such a controlled space. to create so where. the politics and geography of some cities and perhaps many cities are starting to read. some of the sort of mediæval structures of and place of power with barriers access controls and of course instead of the big massive stone structures of the medieval military architecture we now have systems bison outrunning passage control electronic access biometric scanning some people are suggesting that perhaps the applet is the paradigm space of the future city that maybe cities in the future might have apple style restrictions generalized across the whole landscape. london's canary wharf. when the financial markets were deregulated banks expanded. in the form of don't cleanse they could implement a remarkably elaborate security concept. today more than seventy thousand people work in canary wharf there are hotels and apartments and the popular shopping mall. is a new scale of privatized space to very tig

because we were really fascinated in this i did that when you're in the city of london every movement is traced by cameras. in exhibitions and on the internet and real to williams and to george showed a network of security cameras and structures clearly visible on a map there will come of close to real life. empty and easily overlooked control booths. a tree in the middle of a street surrounded by on blogs. a tank beriah disguised as a palm. together with the already present security cameras these structures form a security ring around the city of london. remarkably enough. it's followed almost the exact same lines of the old city walls dating back to roman times the ring of steel is a bold new fortress a matrix for other cities the projects about the ring of steel was primarily to make it visible so that people understood how to read the landscape i think that's what i find most interesting about the ring of steel is because it was so keen to not have this very visible defense it is not like a very mobile that way you can find it and see it very easily so we really wanted to explain

next friday val untines day 1 billion rising for justice in our city. as we have done in past years, next friday we will come together in civic center plaza. the organizers this year have teamed up with the bar association of san francisco, rda's office and the department on the status of women to put together the first ever free legal clinic targeting survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault to help those in need. and i do hope you might be able to join next weekationv events and do everything locally and end all forms of violence against women. the rest of my items i will submit. >> thank you, mr. president. supervisor farrell. supervisor kim. >> thank you. i just want to add my co-sponsorship and support to supervisor campos's tenant relocation assistance payment legislation. i'm really excited this is moving forward and i just want to thank supervisor campos's office for working on this legislation. over the last year our office has been fielding so many calls and hearing from residents, many who grew up here in san francisco that are fearfu

it's a challenging issue in jersey city. we spent probably $2 million on our side alone of the race and voters turnout was what i mentioned earlier. it would be hard to be a resident in jersey city during the election and not know there was a may recall election going on from a house to house standpoint. i think people vote on things that areless of substance and the more we try to educate them, people try to gravitate towards things that aren't meaningful and move the dialogue forward, sometimes gender or race or geographic location or who their neighbor is. i don't have a answer for you long term. >> we are working on it. >> i'm a former organizer with food and water watch. i want to thank you for your opposition to the pipeline that is now in service between jersey city and manhattan, a 42 inch gas pipeline going under the hudson. i know that jersey city attorney is going to argue now -- >> yesterday. >> there are some arguments coming thursday. but the regulatory commission is approving these pipe lines right and left all

that is something we really need to keep in mind in our city government. from my point of view is that. we have to figure out what is it lake -- like to be a business person in the city and what we can do to not only have full restaurants and bars but making sure it is worth it to continue to open successful places that make our community that much better. >> we have a huge unemployment rate in san francisco. it is about 9.6%. the fact that we have not done much about that in city hall i think has it change. that certainly is something i will be focused on in the beginning here in city hall. putting people back to work. it is an individual issue but it is a family issue and we've a lot of families still struggling and i think people have lost sight of that. hopefully we will be getting out of the recession soon but we need to do a lot to accelerate getting out of that recession, making sure families are back at work and children are provided for. to me that is my biggest priority. i think that we do lose a lot of sight in the past district supervisors lost

in michigan we are seeing that these problem cities and school districts, in some cases are being made worse with the emergency manager. without the public, without the public input and without the public accountability. here at city college, we're seeing some disturbing things, headlines in the news recently about secret promotions. this kind of thing used to happen 10 years ago and we put a stop to it. the elected members of the board of trustees put a stop to it and now we see other things being done in the back room. it's happening again. we the board left the district with a large surplus, plus a $6 million reserve fund and the people in the back room took that and they are in a situation now where the college needs millions and millions more in funding and so we can see that as in michigan, the people here have not solved the problem. thank you. >> next speaker. >>> good afternoon and thank you to the supervisors and supervisor campos and co-sponsoring wiener, yee, and avalos for presenting this resolution today. my name is alisa messer, i'm president of aft 21 is 21 which repres

we brought on the right popcorn who tackle it in objected cities so i think it's good to be excited but it but not two excited we're going in the right direction hopefully, we'll explore all the option that will fencing san francisco >> commissioner moore. >> i would be triggered to see a couple of analogs a majority of the cities have the same problem perhaps not as the freeways that come close to do you only how did the plan for future i can think of a couple cities in europe but i'd like to see us have a catalog of analogs that's intriguing and exciting. >> okay. thank you very much. the commission is going to take a short lunch 25 >> week to week to the san francisco planning commission i'd like to remind members of audience to turn off mobile devices and when speaking before the commission please do state your name for the record. >> conversions we left open on item 14. the planning code repair uses this is an informational presentation >> stove with the planning department staff. before i goat into this i'm going to introduce some of the co-sponsor start with john with the economi

we're going aggressive because people want to live in our wonderful city a lot of people 79 to stay in our city and we can only accommodate that if we are almost military eric about building and pitting together how does. i'm going looking forward to seeing those homes but i want to restate a commitment one it's evolved in conversations with supervisor breed and other supervisors our advocates in the city we've got to be graph about building protecting and middle-class housing so when we stated thirty thousand unit that sounds like a lot but it that r will reflect the highest number of housing we've built in the history of the city. we're willing to do that because that's what is the needed so it's a mixture of not only building housing but rehabilitating housing that's decaying in front of us so the fund the public-private investments that we create something like the story about this site the incentives we'll have for the public-private industry we're building as well as is public monies the supervisors will decade to this effort will you'll conclude in the next 6 years thirty thousa

again, public housing in cities that are more successful at responding to homelessness is a major tool particularly in ending family homelessness. so, it's very important, the housing authority has been working hard to pull up their lists that they've had, new practices. our nonprofit is going to be involved in, you know, managing senior and disabled properties. the housing authority commission, the level of city expertise, the phil arnolds, the joaquin torreses, the people who have gone on that commission it's changed the environment and i hope the housing authority will be a major tool going forward which we have not had in the past ten years. >> supervisor avalos? >> thank you. has there ever been any discussion about ways that we could expand section 8? there's actually i know money from the federal government, but actually having some kind of match from the local level that could expand section 8. we can't build ourselves out as quickly as we'd like to, but services under the rubric of public housing, section 8 could be a tool we might be able to apply here. yeah, i think on the s

responsibilities, and discuss solutions that they see towards reducing and ending homelessness here in our city. in terms of speakers, we're going to have bevan dufty, former district 8 supervisor and the director of the mayor's office of housinging opportunity partnerships and engagement or hope. we'll provide a general overview of the general housing plan while touching on goals and recommendation of the plan to see ho the city has faired since. we'll also ask bevan to talk about trends in his office's budget and areas where he sees successes over time. going to also have trent rohr human services agency who is integrally involved in the initial ten-year plan to also provide a perspective on success he and failures and present responsibilities to providing homelessness services here in san francisco and touching on trends in his budgets over time and ideas for the future. there is a team from applied survey research that helps hsa combine the homeless count and survey to provide an overview of the methodology they use to print the current data we have regarding the city's homeless population

housing on the sites or in the private investment to is your developments will get high priorities in the city. another highlighted part is to have concurrent reviews so our staffs start juggling things i'm not looking yours because you're not in the cue in the right order those housing projects get immediate review. that's important that's how important this development is. i will suggest as part of this is that when we said thirty thousand units that's always rehabilitating unit we don't want to lose 10 thousand unit so we're pay attention to the current housing stock that's why mrs. wolf i've had the good fortune to work with she and others have pushed forward another policy reflective in those instructions that development and developers who want to bring forward units that might not have been legal in the past will get priority treatment and as we look at each development we at one point make sure that the developers are not decreasing the number of units in the development process so to give a good you holistic look at all developments to make sure we prevent the housing stock and allow

of the traditional you've got to get it done and how do we help you do get under and city maintain and create jobs in the city. i'm here to say thank you jose to really let everybody you know how appreciative i've been 0 o and lucky to have you as a leader in our financial literacy captain. ooip i've been lucky to inherit a movement gavin was there before me and a visionary and i still get his council as he goes across california doing great things in education. gavin i say thank you that f in your new really as lieutenant governor everything we've accomplished we get a national and state audience because of the work you've done. with that our visiony and former mayor now lieutenant governor gavin newsom. >> (clapping.) >> thank you. obviously, we have the same speech writer i have nothing else to say about jose wonderful work and thank you for covering the base is. i ran over to college and wondered what happened to terminate limits that's been 10 damn years you're not over this yet, huh? . i was thinking what was the world would it be like. but it is remarkable to go back in time as the mayor was r