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”Future Urban Desig
n to promote achievement of the SDGs through STI”
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There has been an outbreak of a COVID-19\, which in its t
ypical form threatens human security. This outbreak was primarily caused d
ue to the rapid spread of the highly contagious virus among globally linke
d cities\, which led to widespread and prolonged lockdowns in cities world
wide. According to United Nations\, this Pandemic led to a rise in the une
mployment rate and the first increase in poverty globally since 1998.
Urban areas developed rapidly in the 20th century\, and according to DES
A\, 68% of the world’s population\, that is 6.7 billion people\, are expec
ted to live in urban areas by 2050. Furthermore\, the NUA2020 shows that l
iving in cities contributes to economic prosperity\, environmental conserv
ation\, and social equality. Therefore\, it is urgent to consider how urba
n areas can develop sustainably under infectious diseases to ensure human
security. The pandemic also makes us recognize that it is essential to con
sider the well-being of residents as well as ensure human security in citi
es\, as there were many cases of mental health problems caused by long-ter
m lockdowns. In this session\, we propose a new urban design that enables
sustainable development while ensuring comfort during normal times and Dec
ent Living Standards (DLS) during outbreaks.
The committee for Scien
ce\, Technology\, and Innovation in 2050 (STI2050) under the Engineering A
cademy of Japan (EAJ) has been discussing how to recover better in green a
fter this situation and preparing an insight report. This session will int
roduce a part of preliminary insights of the report\, and potentially cont
ribute for the STI forum through vision and policy makings from national\,
urban\, and infrastructure planning perspectives incorporated with human
dimension.
The Pandemic makes many engineers return to basics to gui
de our way of thinking. For example\, does materialistic prosperity ensure
happiness or well-being? What is most important to us as human beings? Wh
at is the final destination of engineering—the true objective of engineeri
ng?
Besides\, we realized that the engineers are responsible for wor
king together across disciplines to build a resilient and sustainable syst
em that will prevent the entire city from disrupting at once\, no matter t
he situation.
The challenge facing the Pandemic is to compromise the
trade-offs among freedom\, comfort\, and security through STI and realize
a city that can serve as the platform of prosper lives\, and we hope that
this session will help to achieve this goal.
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The followings are our recommendations\, and this sessi
on will focus on them.
1)
Create a human-centered city that pursues well-being and aims to ensure c
omfort in usual and the Decent Living Standards during outbreaks.2) Realize a city that ensures hu
man security and well-being under any circumstances by achieving an autono
mous and decentralized urban cluster structure without disrupting the curr
ent urban structure.
3) D
evelop a system to autonomously manage an entire city with humans and AI’s
cooperation by connecting diverse data between urban clusters.
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Invited Speakers:
1. Introduction and “Outbreak Risk Management and
Future City”
by Prof. Taikan Oki (United Nations University)
2. “Fragmented infrastructure systems in Ulaanbaatar\, Mongolia: Assessm
ent from a Resource Nexus and public health perspective”
by Prof.
Dr. Daniel Karthe(United Nations University)
3. “Design from Crisis”
by Prof. Mikiko Ishikawa (RDI\, Chuo University):
4. “Japan
ese smart city projects in Russia” (15 min.)
by Ms. GuzelIshkinee
va(United Nations University):
5. “Human security and well-being for
urban design with STI”
by Prof. Yoshikazu Nakajima (Tokyo Medical
and Dental University)
6. Discussions\, Questions and Answers (moder
ator Prof. Oki)
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Organizer:
The Engineering Academy of Japan
Organizing partners: United Nation University\, Tokyo Office of the Uni
ted Nation Industrial Development Organization\, Permanent Mission of Japa
n to the United Nations
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