James von Klemperer, Kohn Pedersen Fox
Wednesday, October 7
7:00 p.m.
Scholastic Auditorium, 557 Broadway
Working in collaboration with Cisco Systems, Kohn Pedersen Fox is currently master-planning two new cities–New Songdo City, South Korea and Meixi Lake, Hunan Province, China–in which all information systems–residential, medical, business–will be linked. Organized around eight “tracks” within a city, the systems will be designed to provide smart and connected solutions for real estate, safety and security, transportation, utilities, government, education, health care and sports. James von Klemperer, design principal, will give an overview of the two projects, discussing the major challenges of planning for the “ubiquitous city,” or u-city.
Tags: architecture, infrastructure, ubiquitous computing, urban space