Uploaded on 2016-09-17 by Edgar Antonio Valdés Porras

SUSTAINABLE CITIES CLUSTER Introduction The Sustainable Cities Clusters (βsCC) project is an awareness program for planning and managing sustainable urban centers. The ßsCC uses network theory to generate a useful theoretical model in the planning and management of sustainable urban centers. Starts with a complete map of diagrams that allow the measure of the sustainability of each city, and the implementation of a software tool to automate best practices in resource management. ßsCC produces an overview of the urban centers, a theoretical model for sustainable control, applicable to any urban settlement using three separate phases: mapping, dynamics and evolution. Currently more than half of the world population lives in big cities, which also concentrate 80% of the economic production and represent an equally large consumption of energy. The environmental impact of such populations requires that we learn to manage such cities in a sustainable way, so we can ensure the current growth without compromising the capacities of our future generations, that is, the overall global trend in these times is transforming the big cities into sustainable urban centers. Method In its first phase it will develop a complete map of all urban centers based on a diagrammatic schema. This map will help measure the grade of sustainability among cities. So it may establish a basic set of administration which will be supplemented with interchangeable peripheral services. The goal is to generate a dynamic model and easy application that can be implemented in cities of varying magnitudes. The second phase corresponds to the creation of the first City Resource Planner (CRP); a tool to automate best practices in resource management using a software platform The third phase proposes a research project on the concept of sustainability from the vantage point of network theory; research results could be applied directly to βsCC tools. This last part will give us results to be used in a theoretical model for sustainable control of the cities that is to find and plan their evolution. Investigation The current phase of the project βsCC not only collects specific information from cities; but, in turn, it is a planning tool. The map of the world's cities shows the situation of sustainability. The information is updated and keeps up with the CRP. This serves beyond a simple management system, shows the dynamics of each city. So not only it knows what the status of a city is; a guide is created to transform it, to know its evolution. In its final phase, the tool will model the complexity of sustainable systems applying the theory of categories to network diagrams and thus define sustainability as a process of transformation diagrams. Various channels of information, which could come from IoT, allow us to know the sustainable transformation from micro to macro. Conclusions There is no precise mathematical definition of what characterizes a system as "sustainable". If had it , could mean a way to move towards a standard, that in a simple and accurate way, would reconcile different areas of knowledge. Implemented, the model βsCC catalyzes the development at all levels, from municipalities and cities, to entire countries and regions. It is a tool that attracts public and private investment; encouraging improvement in the provision of services. ΒsCC investment is not only desirable, but necessary, considering the global problems in urban development. The strength of the project is that it can simulate / predicted scenarios: What will happen to Las Vegas if still consuming water at the rate it does? Is it feasible for Mexico City to regulate contingency by changing models of vehicular traffic? What alternatives have Kolkata when the Delta Gang keep going up due to the global warming? The βsCC project wants to be a cornerstone to answer these questions from a multidisciplinary perspective.