United Arab Emirates, Dubai
FC-01x Future Cities (Self-Paced) - Exercise 3: "Factors of Livability"
Uploaded on 2016-08-07 by Joanna Truffaut
• Step 1: List the five most liveable cities that you know, based on your own experience and judgment, placing the most liveable city at the top of the list. Zurich Amsterdam Vancouver Nantes Luxembourg • Step 2: Describe in your own words five characteristics that according to your opinion make a city liveable. Order them placing the most important at the top of the list. * Green (with parks) Intelligent (connected) Short commuting Not too cold not too hot temperature Smooth transportation • Step 3: Describe the status of your own city in terms of the five characteristics that you listed above. Propose how your city should/could be transformed in relation to these characteristics in order to be more sustainable. Dubai needs to improve its multimodal transportations so that it is as smooth as possible and reduce time spent in the car every day. Dubai is a very connected city however efforts needs to be made to crowdsource ideas, create APIs and have the population help in the city design innovation process.