Smart City

SMART CITY MX Concept Proposal Feb 21 st, 2020

A city is the result of community and its complexities.

Our contemporary humanity has created such a strong bond with technology, that it is difficult to understand what it means to exist in a society without the tools and empowerment that this relationship establishes.

The modern history of cities, especially post-industrialized ones, made evident that the singularity in the vast approaches on how a territory should be appropriated is the person and its basic needs. Technology has allowed for better conditions of life to be generalized for the population, but it has also an expiration date.

This document represents our particular way of envisioning the evolution of the Mexican cities into the development of communities where information and technological tools allow for a more sustainable, efficient, agile and responsible way of building territory and society.

REQUIREMENTS Story Board

February 21st, 2020.

Dear CONTACTO, On behalf of VG+VM, I am pleased to provide you with a proposal of design consultancy services to carry out a 12week concept masterplan for a Smart City in Mexico.

I would like to thank LAS EMPRESAS for the opportunity to participate in the selection and/or execution of a master planner for this unique and exciting project.

It would be a great honor to work with LAS EMPRESAS to develop your new vision of what a city should be in Mexico. We believe our collaboration will achieve a succesfull and thoughtful understanding of what a city should look forward to, that could achieve life quality for its residents adn the implementation of tecnologies that are a fundamental component of the world we live in. This platform shall achieve a sustainable lifestile that is responsible, and ultimatelly provides with wellness to its habitants.

INDEX

Cost Comparison

ANALYSIS Scale Housing Industry Automotive Industry Services & Infrastructure

SMART CITIES Smart Cities Cisco Leed One Planet Living

FRAMEWORK New Babylon

We trust that our proposal is aligned with the project requirements and we look forward to your feedback following your review.

Garden City

Should you have any need for clarifications, please do not hesitate to contact me.

New Urbanism

Kind regards,

APPROACH

Industrial City

Why Mexico?

City Learning Cycle Strategies Application Symbiotic Origin Symbiotic Relationships

PORTFOLIO Housing Industry Education Services & Infrastructure Rodrigo Vega González Socio Director, VG+VM Arquitectos Querétaro.

Commerce Urban Key Personnel Team

1

2

$7.5 Billion

1,000 Hectares

1,000 Hectares

PROJECT REQUIREMENTS

20,000 Housing Units

3

4

5

6

100 Warehouses

Infrastructure

Services

HOUSING

INDUSTRY

rough / heavy

single family - individual

multi-family - collective

property / equipment

light use / consumption

extraction

construction

food

steelmaking

aeronautics

tobacco

metallurgical

home appliances

petrochemical

pharmaceutical

heavy chemistry

biotechnology textileleather and footwear

Micro industry

Small industry

1 to 10 employees

11 to 50 employees

500 to 5,000 inhabitants > 60 homes per hectare

annual sales - 21.5 md

annual sales - 21.5 md to 5.4mmd

5,001 to 15,000 inhabitants > 70 homes per hectare

40% represent the country

15% represent the country

more than15,000 inhabitants > 80 homes per hectare

Medium industry

Big industry

51 to 250 employees

more than 250 employees

annual sales - 5.4 mdd to 13.4

annual sales - more than 13.4 mdd

17% represent the country

10% represent the country

Industrial Park

block 100 to 1,000 inhabitants barrios 1,000 to 5,000 inhabitants

Maximum sliding surface

Construction density

neig hborhood 5,000 to 25,000 inhabitants 70% maximum sliding surface industrial development must have a minium of 10 hectares of urbanized surface

30% open space 100% land

source: Inegi_industry_2019

ANALYSIS

MEXICO

ANALYSIS

$130mdd Reforma Tower Mexico,City 0.75km2 2008-2016

UNITED STATES

$5.000mdd Gigafactory Tesla Reno,Nevada 13 km2 2014-2020

EUROPE

INVESTMENT COMPARISON ANALYSIS

$3.2billion Palace of the Parliament Bucharest,Rumania 0.34km2 1985-1997

SCALE

COUNTRIES

CITIES

CITIES

CITIES

Vatican Europe area: 44 hectares population: 800 people density: 1,818.182 people/sqkm

Monaco Europe area: 202 hectares population: 38,695 people density: 19,155.941 people/sqkm

Guadalajara

Jalisco, Mexico

Gibraltar Europe area: 680 hectares population: 34,571 people density: 5,083.971 people/sqkm

Barcelona Manhattan

New York, USA

area: 15,140 hectares

area: 5,913 hectares

population: 1,495,189 people

population: 1,628,710 people

density: 9,875.753 people/sqkm

density: 27,544.411 people/sqkm

Source: jalisco.gob.mx

Source: US Census Bureau

Catalonia, Spain area: 10,135 hectares population: 1,620,343 people density: 15,987.597 people/sqkm Source: idescat.cat

PARKS

UNIVERSITIES

Bosque de Chapultepec

UNAM

area: 678 hectares

area: 700 hectares

Central Park

Stanford University

area: 341 hectares

area: 3,310 hectares

Hyde Park

MIT

area: 250 hectares

area: 67 hectares

Mexico City, Mexico

New York, USA

London, England

ANALYSIS

Mexico City, Mexico

California, USA

Massachusetts, USA

HOUSING

Above: Aerial view Monterrey.

(Foto EE: Gilberto Marquina)

Above: Aerial view Ciudad Nezahualcóyotl (Imagen: https://www.ngenespanol.com)

Above: Aerial view Barcelona City.

(Image: IndianWebs)

Above: Aerial view San Jose California (Image: http://www.arborviewcapital.com)

Above: Aerial view Tampines, Singapore Above: Aerial view Guadalajara.

(Foto: Gerardo Ramones. https://www.pexels.com)

(Image: https://mynicehome.sg)

ANALYSIS

INDUSTRY

Above: Aerial view El Marqués Industrial Park, Querétaro.

Aerial view Congost Industrial Polygon, Catalonia, Spain.

(Image: google street view)

(Image: google street view)

Above: Aerial view Kronos Industrial Park, Monterrey.

Aerial view Rancho Dominguez Industrial Park, California

(Image: https://www.rolegal.com)

(Image: https://www.connect.media)

Above: Aerial view Interior Port, Silao.

Above: Singapore industry area aerial view,flat skyline

(Image: http://puertointerior.com.mx)

(Image: dongli zhang / Alamy Stock Photo)

ANALYSIS

ANALYSIS

MONTERREY Nuevo Leon

Commerce Governmental activities Education Health services Other services

NEZAHUALCOYOTL State of Mexico

SERVICES & INFRASTRUCTURE

GUADALAJARA

Jalisco

LAND OCCUPATION

IoT

SENSORS

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

AUGMENTED REALITY

CAMERAS

SMART CITIES

WIFI

VIRTUAL REALITY

5G

barcelona CATALONIA, SPAIN According to a study by the University of Glasgow, Barcelona is the third smartest city in the world, just after London and Singapore.

SEATTLE, WASHINGTON, USA Seattle has an Innovation Advisory Council (IAC) to come up with innovative solutions for issues such as homelessness, housing, and transportation through the implementation of technology solutions.

As part of Barcelona’s smart strategy, the city has developed apps like CityBikes which is a bike sharing network that shows the availability of bikes and stations.

CITY BIKES APP HIGH-PERFORMANCE BUILDINGS

IoT TRASH CANS

LED LIGHTING

FREE WI-FI

AIR QUALITY SENSORS

APPARKB

Barcelona uses the Internet of Things (IoT) to improve the quality of life of its citizens; for example, the city has installed sensors in trash bins to manage waste collection efficiently.

VIDEO IMAGE-AWARE SYSTEMS

LED street lighting allows to reduce energy consumption in the city. It detects when there are no people to reduce the light intensity which represents up to a 30% of savings in electricity.

Today, Barcelona has a wi-fi network that covers almost the entire city. Free wi-fi is offered in parks, plazas and libraries. The service is used by more than 250,000 people per month.

Seattle aims to become the hub for smart and energy-efficient buildings. These buildings use sensors, data and analytics to measure energy consumption and detect issues such as leaking and malfunctioning systems.

A system of video cameras placed in key spots around the city, allow for real-time video surveillance to keep the citizens safe.

Seattle is a leading city in transportation electrification. The use of electric and hybrid cars has resulted in a decrease of 16% in gasoline consumption.

ELECTRIC CARS

OPEN DATA

More than a 1,000 open data sets encourage the growth of startups which places Seattle as a leading entrepreneurial city in the USA.

Seattle has an adaptive transportation management system that enables traffic lights to adapt to changing road and weather conditions.

Sensors collect information about the quality of the air so that the government can manage pollution issues more assertively.

ADAPTIVE TRAFFIC LIGHTS

The local government has developed some apps such as Apparkb, which shows the users information about available parking, points of interest and a map of the city.

RAINWATCH

Together with the University of Washington, Seattle developed RainWatch to monitor precipitation in real time and send warnings when there’s a chance of flooding.

According to the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), Mexico has 4 intelligent areas: Maderas in Queretaro, Ciudad Creativa y Tequila in Jalisco and Smart in Puebla.

Improve traffic management

Education

Parking

Safety & Security

Generate revenue

Better customer experiences

Reduce time search

Financial Services

Enhance data sharing

Protect against crime

Track & collect Avoid overflow

Improve care remotely Healthcare

These sensors are connected through internet to monitor the air quality, climate and humidity to optimize natural resources.

Any person can use the system of alerts, which activates immediate government assistance and allows to involve simultaneously any other required service.

Environment

Lighting

Video surveillance as well as the management of an advanced traffic control system allow for a faster 911 emergency response.

EMERGENCY PREFERENCE

Synchronize content and engage the audience Sports & Entertainment

Hyperlocalized monitoring

Manage all displays from a control planel Targeted branding, advertising and promotions

Predictive modeling

Retail

Low energy consumption

POLLUTION MONITORS

TOURISM APPS

Efficient water flow

Collect and analyze in-store data

Different monitors allow to analyze the levels of pollution in the city and enable preventive alerts.

The city’s government promotes tourism in order to boost economy through an app which provides information regarding points of interest and cultural events.

Instant health information and patient’s records Wayfinding maps

Track water safety

Cut costs Simplify maintenance

KEY SOLUTIONS

SYSTEM INTERCONECTIVITY

Optimize operations Engage citizens

Avoid health hazards

Water Management

Operational efficiency Prioritize security

Detect incidents

Government Waste Management

TEMPERATURE SENSORS

Pomote active learning Fuel research

This type of technology allows for a person to be quickly recognized in a group of 10,000 people in order for people to feel safe but not observed.

FACIAL RECOGNITION

Connect the campus

Connect different transportation modes

Inventory management Digital marketing Industrial security

Manufacturing

Flexible and efficient communication Improve operations, margins and quality

KEY SECTORS

PUEBLA, PUEBLA, MEXICO

Urban Mobility

GREEN BUILDING RATING SYSTEM

Access to Quality Transit

A FRAMEWORK FOR SUSTAINABLE LIVING

Affordable Housing Alternatives Fuel Vehicles

People first

Compact, Mixed Use and Transit Orienented Development

nothing will drop through the gaps with our 10 principles

Construction Activity Pollution Prevention Construction and Demolition Waste Management Location and Linkages

it’s grounded in the reality of how people live their lives rather than box ticking

Holistic

True sustainability

there’s no greenwashing

Reaching hearts as well as minds

One Planet Living

is used to inspire people across the world to get involved in sustainable change.

Demographic Assesment Economic Growth

Sustainable Cities Water Efficiency Energy and Atmosphere Material and Resources Indoor Enviromental Quality Regional Priority

Ecosystem Assesment Emergency Management and Response Energy Efficiency Storm Water Management Energy and Greenhouse Gas Emissions Management Green Building Policy and Incentives Green Spaces Grid Harmonization High Priority Site Innovation Organic Waste Treatment Integrated Planning and Design Process.

Integrated Water Management Light Pollution Reduction

Innovation and Design

Low Carbon Economy Power Acces, Reliability and Reliliency Public Health Recycling Infrastructure Regional Priority Renewable Energy Resilience Planning

Health and happiness Equity and Local Economy Culture and Community Land and Nature

Sustainable Water Local and Sustainable food Tlavel and Transport

Materials and products Zero Waste

Responsible Sourcing Infrastructure Smart Mobility Smart Water System

Zero Carbon Energy

Social Infrastructure Solid Waste Management Walkability and Bikeability Wastewater Management Water Acces and Wuality Natural Resources Conservation

There are now 595,000 people around the world living in, working at or visiting organizations and communities with a deep commitment to One Planet Living.

FRAMEWROK

New Babylon

Garden City

Industrial City

New Urbanism

New Babylon is an anti-capitalist city perceived and designed in 1959-74 as a future potentiality by visual artist Constant Nieuwenhuys1.

The garden city movement is a method of urban planning in which self-contained communities are surrounded by “greenbelts”, containing proportionate areas of residences, industry, and agriculture.

The industrial revolution had the effect of bringing more and more people from the countryside into the heart of the city looking for work. Such dramatic overpopulation and unrestricted urban growth led to slum housing, dirty, disease and a lack of communal green spaces within the city landscape.1

New Urbanism is an urban design movement which promotes environmentally friendly habits by creating walkable neighborhoods containing a wide range of housing and job types.1

The goal was the creating of alternative life experiences, called ‘situations’. Nieuwenhuys’ New Babylon was based on the idea that architecture itself would allow and instigate a transformation of daily reality.2

The idea was initiated in 1898 by Ebenezer Howard in the United Kingdom and aims to capture the primary benefits of a countryside environment and a city environment while avoiding the disadvantages presented by both.

In the 1950s, Constant had already been working for years on his “New Babylon” series of paintings, sketches, texts,and architectural models describing the shape of a post-revolutionary society. Constant’s New Babylon was to be a series of linked transformable structures, some of which were themselves the size of a small city--what architects call a megastructure. Perched above ground, Constant’s megastructures would literally leave the bourgeois metropolis below and would be populated by homo ludens--man at play.

After that term, modern urban planning arose in response to this disorder. Reformation of these areas was the objective of the early city planners, who began to impose regulatory laws establishing housing standards for housing, sanitation etc. Urban planners also introduced parks, playground in the city neighborhoods, for recreation as well as visual relief.2

While garden cities were praised for being an alternative to overcrowded and industrial cities, along with greater sustainability, garden cities were often criticized for damaging the economy, being destructive of the beauty of nature, and being inconvenient. According to A. Trystan Edwards, garden cities lead to desecration of the country side by trying to recreate country side houses that could spread themselves; however, this was not a possible feat due to the limited space they had.1

In the New Babylon, the bourgeois shackles of work, family life, and civic responsibility would be discarded.

The post-revolutionary individual would wander from one leisure environment to another in search of new sensations. Beholden to no one, he would sleep, eat, recreate, and procreate where and when he wanted. Selffulfillment and self-satisfaction were Constant’s social goals. Deductive reasoning, goal-oriented production, the construction and betterment of a political community-all these were eschewed.2

The notion of zoning was a major concept of urban planning at this time. Some urban planners worked on urban planning and one of them was the Tony Garnier.3 Garnier ‘s proposal was an industrial city for approx 35.000 inhabitants situated on a area in southeast France on a plateau with high land and a lake to the north, a valley and river to the south. He envisaged a town of segregated uses with a residential area, a train station quarter and an industrial zone.

More recently the environmental movement’s embrace of urban density has offered an “implicit critique” of the garden city movement.2 In this way the critique of the concept resembles critiques of other suburbanization models, though author Stephen Ward has argued that critics often do not adequately distinguish between true garden cities and more mundane dormitory city plans.2

Concept of zoning was strongly similar with Ebenezer Howard Garden Cities of To-morrow because he divided the city into three parts as well like Garnier. Garnier tries to take into account all aspects of the city including governmental, residential, manufacturing and agricultural practices. The various functions of the city were clearly related, but separated from each from by location and patterns.

It is often referred to as an urban design experiment which is typified by failure due to the laneways used as common entries and exits to the houses helping ghettoise communities and encourage crime; it has ultimately lead to efforts to ‘de-Radburn’ or partially demolish American Radburn designed public housing areas.3

New Babylon was based on the idea that architecture itself would allow and instigate a transformation of daily reality.1

It arose in the United States in the early 1980s, and has gradually influenced many aspects of real estate development, urban planning, and municipal land-use strategies. New urbanism attempts to address the ills associated with urban sprawl and post-Second World War suburban development.2 New Urbanism is strongly influenced by urban design practices that were prominent until the rise of the automobile prior to World War II; it encompasses ten basic principles such as traditional neighborhood design (TND) and transit-oriented development (TOD).3 These ideas can all be circled back to two concepts: building a sense of community and the development of ecological practices.

“We advocate the restructuring of public policy and development practices to support the following principles: neighborhoods should be diverse in use and population; communities should be designed for the pedestrian and transit as well as the car; cities and towns should be shaped by physically defined and universally accessible public spaces and community institutions; urban places should be framed by architecture and landscape design that celebrate local history, climate, ecology, and building practice.”4

The city of labor divided into Four main Functions: Work, housing, health and leisure. The public area at the heart of the city was grouped into three sections: Administrative services and assembly halls, museum collections and sport facilities.4

1.

Constant. New Babylon Nord, (detail). Plan, 1958 https://static2.museoreinasofia.es/sites/default/files/ styles/ficha_actividad_exposicion/public/actividades/ babylon.jpg?itok=g2lQ0Wp8

2.

Constant. New Babylon.

3.

Constant. New Babylon, model.

1.

1 Henri Lefebvre on the Situationist International. Interview conducted and translated 1983 by Kristin Ross. Printed in October 79, Winter 1997 2 Sarah Williams Goldhagen (July 2006) ON ARCHITECTURE : Extra-Large in The New Republic

1.

Ebenezer Howard, Tomorrow: A Peaceful Path to Real Reform.

1 A. Trystan Edwards (January 1914). “A Further Criticism of the Garden City Movement”. The Town Planning Review. 4 (4): 312–318. JSTOR 40100071 2 Stephen Ward (18 October 2005). The Garden City: Past, present and future. Routledge. pp. 205–. ISBN 978-1-135-82895-0.

3 Dylan Welch (2009-01-08). “Demolition ordered for Rosemeadow estate”. The Sydney Morning Herald. Archived from the original on 2015-09-24. Retrieved 2015-09-17.

Tony Garnier. (detail).https://senacatal. files.wordpress.com/2016/03/cite_indu strielle13179371441051366370620480145bd53109e1a099fd6.png?w=768

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Tony Garnier. https://senacatal.files.wordpress. com/2016/03/aoc263.jpg

3.

Tony Garnier. https://senacatal.files.wordpress. com/2016/03/hospital-tony1.jpg

1 Anderson, Lawrence B.(1987 ). Tony Garnier. Places, 3(4), 3-13.

2 Rudlin, David & Falk, Nicholas(1999). Sustainable Urban Neighbourhood. USA 3 Dora Wiebenson, ” Utopian Aspects of Tony Garnier’ s City Industrielle ,” Journal of the society of Architectural Historians, Vol.19, No.1(Mar., 1960), pp.16-24.

4 KAHYA, G. Y., 2007. Kentsel Gelişme Olgusu Bağlamında Gelecek Öngörüleri: Siberşehirler, Yüksek Lisans Tezi, İTU, Fen Bilimleri Enstitüsü, İstanbul.

1 Boeing; et al. (2014). “LEED-ND and Livability Revisited”.

Berkeley Planning Journal. 27: 31–55. Retrieved 2015-04-15.

2 Caves, R. W. (2004). Encyclopedia of the City. Routledge. p.

491. ISBN 9780415252256.

3 Kelbaugh, Douglas S. 2002. Repairing the American Metropolis: Common Place Revisited. Seattle: University of Washington Press. 161.

4 “The Charter of the New Urbanism”. 2015-04-20.

MONTERREY

WHY MEXICO?

Nuevo León

GDP US$81.4 billions.

2ND Best city to do buisness in Mexico.

5TH place in terms of quality of life, according to Mercer Human Resource Consulting.

Los Angeles

United Startes of America

The city is a modern industrial and buusiness center with an official population of 1.1 million and a metropolitan area of at least 3.8 million.

Atlanta

IT Infrastructure: Advanced high-bandwidth, secure communications network, government supported research and technology parks.

Dallas

GUADALAJARA Jalisco

GDP US$63.9 billions.

2ND Most populous municipality.

FDIMagazine ranked Guadalajara highest among major

Monterrey

APPROACH

mexican locations in terms of potential and designated the city as having the 2ND strangest economic potential of any major North American city after Chicago.

Cancun

Guadalajara is known as the Silicon Valley of Mexico due to its electronic industry.

Guadalajara Mexico City

NEZAHUALCOYOTL

Belize

Guatemala

State of Mexico

GDP US$90.9 billions.

With more than 14 million inhabitants living in 22,500 square kilometers, it is the most populated state in Mexico and the largest producer of manufactured goods nationwide.

It is one of the most robust, diverse, and dynamic areas in the nation and offers ample opportunities in the IT and BPO world.

Airports Seaports Main roads

The state already offers a high level of infrastructure that is continuously being expanded as the state government actively supports foreign investments in IT.

CITY LEARNING CYCLE

1.

TECHNOLOGY FOR HUMAN CITIES

a.

The premises for a Smart City rely on the idea of bringing wellness and life quality to its citizens. b.

Technology is not new. Cities have relied on the capabilities that technology has offered since the first human settlements to empower, grow and better appropriate territory. c.

Technology solves old problems that bring new challenges. In a never-ending evolution cycle, the desire to improve solutions or solve older problems offer a constant challenge for cities to redefine and self-improve. d.

If Design is the ultimate human invention, tools and technology are the vehicle that redefine the meaning of what is human itself.

2.

PRE-EXISTANCE IS NOT MANDATORY, YET PREFERED.

a.

Smart Cities rely on basic pillars that have been essential for cities to function. Although it can be presumed that a city could spontaneously emerge, recognizing cities or parts of it that could evolve into more sustainable, efficient and open patterns of development. b.

A city is not about self-invention as much as it is empowered growth. A territory that has been meaningful and appropriated has a stronger chance of developing into an accurate solution, rather than a potential answer to a hypothesis.

3.

SPARKS ENGAGE URBAN SYMBIOSIS

a.

Identity is a key factor for a settlement to encourage. When a common idea becomes an element of pride and identity, chances of success are high. b.

Sparks fuel dynamics and synergy.

4.

SMART DIAGNOSE

a.

To develop solutions for future crisis rather than present urgencies. To develop intelligence for the “reaction” rather than the “action” by opening information and urban management. b.

Resilient approach through systematic information update.

STRATEGYS APPLICATION

Passive systems

Sustainability

Technology application

SYMBIOTIC ORIGIN

SYMBIOTIC RELATIONSHIPS