1. Future trends
Cities of tomorrow
May 2016

2. INFRASTRUCTURE – A CORE ELEMENT OF FUTURE PLANNNING
Voters think it will change their lives for the better
Slide Source: Future Cities Changing Populations, presented by John Utting, Founder & Director, UMR Research

3. PLACEMAKING – CITIES AND THEIR NEIGHBOURHOODS
Creating places where people want to work, live and play
Slide Source: Future Cities Placemaking… is there a role for regulation? Presented by Brendan Nelson President, Planning Institute of Australia

4. CONNECTIVITY AND FUNCTIONALITY DRIVING THINKING
Cities and planning will become more about connecting different areas
The Past – centralised to a CBD
Future – functionality of the area
“Functionality is based on how we use space e.g. infrastructure, technology, supply chains, activity nodes; whereas connectivity allows us to optimise the distribution of people and goods in and out of spaces.” Gary White
Slide Source: Future Cities – The New Spatial City, presented by Gary White, NSW Chief Planner

5. THE INTERNET OF THINGS IN 5 YEARS
Data mining and collection will enable unparallelled consumer targeting
Slide Source: Future Cities – Global Megatrends, presented by Stefan Hajkowicz, Principal Scientist & Leader of CSIRO Futures

6. DATA – AMOUNT AND USAGE IS EXPLODING
Every day the data created is equal to 4,000,000,000,000 books
Enough to reach the moon and back!
3 billion people connected to the internet in 2013
Internet usage
Slide Source: Future Cities – Global Megatrends, presented by Stefan Hajkowicz, PhD from the CSIRO
Image Source: vcloudnews.com

7. A QUICK GUIDE TO DATA SIZES
One Quintillion bytes equals One Exabyte …
Image Source: vcloudnews.com

8. WORKING SMARTER, NOT WORKING HARDER
Buying and selling media will change with technology
Slide Source: Future Cities – Global Megatrends, presented by Stefan Hajkowicz, Principal Scientist & Leader of CSIRO Futures

9. Things are changing in the real world faster than ever before
COLLABORATION IS KEY
Things are changing in the real world faster than ever before
Slide Source: Future Cities – Global Megatrends, presented by Stefan Hajkowicz, Principal Scientist & Leader of CSIRO Futures

10. Our future cities will be driven by innovation
CONCLUSION
Our future cities will be driven by innovation
Slide Source: Future Cities – Global Megatrends, presented by Stefan Hajkowicz, Principal Scientist & Leader of CSIRO Futures