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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Charlie,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">299 words, how close are we to something we can submit our plans for a city we all want to live in? I may have spent too much time defining the problem versus
specifying the solution. All criticism welcome!!! As long as it comes with a constructive alternative. : -)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The world is shrinking, actually we are getting larger in it, and the cities have to absorb today’s exponential increase in population. World population since the ‘second industrial’ revolution after 1850s has grown from 1 billion to almost
8 billion today. In 1950 at a mere 2.5 billion, we were almost evenly distributed between rural and urban. Today, in the developed world, approximately 80% of the population lives in cities.
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<p class="MsoNormal">This is creating very difficult conditions for sustainability, much more simply managing basic city services. We must learn to be more efficient along with being more effective. To most wisely achieve this goal, we need a more collective
approach to problem-solving. Many, if not most of the challenges facing the cities or today are quite similar in nature, if not identical, from infrastructure management to essential public services. Why must each city solve these problems alone? If the cities
of the world were to share solutions with each other, they could each focus on different parts of the problem and thereby only bear the burden for a small fraction of the load. And by working together we may come to better appreciate what we share in common
as well as experience the joy being able to help each other.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">We propose to establish a single, open source, virtual globe platform,
<b>CitySmart</b>, with an open API for functionalities (the menu system). We will seed this platform with an initial suite of functionalities that include tools for managing a renewable power grid, wind and solar, based on the success stories of municipalities
in northern Italy. We will include functionalities for managing input of LiDAR data and infrastructure such as water and sewer. This will be in concert with the City of Springfield Oregon, who has made significant advances in these areas.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> ica-osgeo-labs-bounces@lists.osgeo.org [mailto:ica-osgeo-labs-bounces@lists.osgeo.org]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Hogan, Patrick (ARC-PX)<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Friday, May 15, 2015 7:40 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> ica-osgeo-labs@lists.osgeo.org<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Ica-osgeo-labs] Fwd: Sustainable City 2016 - CALL FOR PAPERS<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#44546A">Charlie,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#44546A">Good idea! Since this is just the 300 words for acceptance of a paper and not the paper itself, I’ll be glad to give it a shot. I will route that later today
for comment, before submitting, unless somebody beats me to it. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#44546A">-Patrick<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#44546A"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Sustainable City 2016, Alicante, Spain, 12 - 14 July 2016<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.wessex.ac.uk/16-conferences/sustainable-city-2016/page-4.html">http://www.wessex.ac.uk/16-conferences/sustainable-city-2016/page-4.html</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Abstracts of no more than 300 words should be submitted as soon as possible by clicking on the 'Submit an Abstract' button found at the top and bottom of
<span style="color:#44546A">[</span>th<span style="color:#44546A">at]</span> page. Abstracts should clearly state the purpose, results and conclusions of the work to be described in the final paper.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Once your abstract has been reviewed, you will be notified of the acceptance of your abstract and be given a submission date as well as instructions on how to prepare your paper.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Final acceptance will be based on the full-length paper, which if accepted for publication, must be presented at the conference.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">We encourage early submission of abstracts and papers to facilitate registration and travel arrangements.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#44546A"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">
<a href="mailto:ica-osgeo-labs-bounces@lists.osgeo.org">ica-osgeo-labs-bounces@lists.osgeo.org</a><span style="color:#44546A"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">On Behalf Of
</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">Charles Schweik<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Friday, May 15, 2015 1:35 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:ica-osgeo-labs@lists.osgeo.org">ica-osgeo-labs@lists.osgeo.org</a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Sustainable City 2016 - CALL FOR PAPERS<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">To colleagues in our "Urban Science/City Analytics/Smart City" group (especially in Europe) [1]: <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">It would be good to have a paper on some component of our group's emerging efforts to the conference below...<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"> -- Charlie <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">[1] <a href="http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GeoForAll_UrbanScience_CityAnalytics">http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GeoForAll_UrbanScience_CityAnalytics</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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