Wu Zhiqiang, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and an academician of the German Academy of Engineering Sciences, said that in terms of technology, tomorrow's technology must have never existed in the past, but the origin of urban planning is the ideal of societ

What will the future city look like? September 24, the first issue of SEA-Hi in 2022! The forum was held in the South Pavilion of Shanghai Design Center. The forum is themed "Creating the Future Together", and the guests discussed the intelligent "future city" brought to the city by emerging technologies.

Academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and an academician of the German Academy of Engineering Sciences Wu Zhiqiang said that in terms of technology, tomorrow's technology must have never existed in the past, but the origin of urban planning is the ideal of society, and the warmth of people is the original intention; Xu Huili, deputy secretary-general of the Shanghai Municipal People's Government and director of the Shanghai Urban Operation Management Center, talked about urban planning and operation management in the digital era.

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Academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and an academician of the German Academy of Engineering Sciences Wu Zhiqiang:

Wu Zhiqiang took the future city and smart planning as his speech topic. He said that the question of "future city" was truly asked in 2000. "At that time, I was looking forward to the city of the 21st century at a world-class conference. To answer this question, I remember a book written in 1883, "Back from 2000". This book was written by Americans in 1883. They said that they returned from the city in 2000 to 1883, and criticized the American life in 1883 from the perspective of 2000 people. The author criticized 1883, which is to criticize the social problems of cities today. The social problems in 2000, which should be an ideal social state, still exist. This refers to people's desire for a better life. Not completed. However, on the other hand, the technological revolution in future life described in the book is almost complete. For example, the book says that people in 2000 are stupid to look back at people in 1883. The latter is still using cash, and the future can be solved with a card (payment). The oil paintings hanging in people's homes in the future will move. It's so accurate."

Wu Zhiqiang

Wu Zhiqiang said that when doing urban planning, the warmth of people is the original intention, and the ideal of society is the origin, which is what planners need to pursue. In terms of technology, tomorrow's technology must have never existed in the past.

Talking about his experience as an urban planning designer, Wu Zhiqiang recalled his re-understanding of urban planning during his research in Paris in 1988. "It was a period of rapid development of the motherland, and Paris made me re-understand urban planning. There, we established a 'medical record card' for every house and every level, just like a human medical record card. This is actually a 'family record card', a record of the city's life journey. Later, I used this function to renovate the old city of the World Expo and build a 'family card' for every house of the World Expo."

Schematic diagram of the Paris road opened by Ottoman

Paris city

"In addition, another area my colleague made was the 36 postal district in Berlin, which was Turkish 's most densely populated area. The urban research compared between these two areas has given me a completely different understanding of urban reconstruction and the maintenance of urban life. Designing a new house is like the birth of a newborn, but there are still a large number of old houses in the city. The urban renewal today refers to the two. This is the real length of a city and what the planner really wants to do. A city is a living body, which is very important. There is a saying in the West that it is easy to become a father, but it is difficult to be a good father."

At the same time, Wu Zhiqiang used his iSpace Project 001 is an example, emphasizing that the current society should care about people that they do not pay attention to in normal times. He said that there are so many elderly people in China, they are all widowed and their children are not there, and the iSpace 001 project is to use facilities serving astronauts to elderly homes to facilitate their daily lives. It is reported that this experimental site is located in an old house in Tongji New Village, Shanghai and has been accurately tested.

"Fuyuan Universe" digital interaction project

"Fuyuan Universe" digital interaction project

In addition, Wu Zhiqiang also talked about the meta universe and digital technology . He said that because of Vision, humans are different from animals. They have religion, ideas, art, and an ideal social decoration in their hearts."Don't think that the metaverse is a very different world. This is just the joint construction of human instinct after having a digital society. Vision is the source of the virtual world, and the metaverse comes from the inner dream."

He took the " Digital China " conference held in Fuzhou in July as an example. His team's digital interaction project with the theme of "Fuyuan Universe" illuminated the "Digital China" conference. The project selects three typical areas on both sides of the Minjiang River in Fuzhou and the exhibition island. The "R Real Scene + AR Technology" on-site digital lighting and digital art are combined with virtual art, integrating Chinese culture, technology, and images such as "dragon, fish", exhibition mascot, etc., with the construction of a new human home in the digital world as the core, and through mobile phones, the citizens on site bring an immersive super visual experience. At the same time, its team has established a database of big cities, based on high-precision, high-frequency and high-bread urban big data. Through machine learning of the historical laws of urban development, it provides multiple possibilities and multiple solutions for the goal selection of urban space and the three-life system of ecology, production and life above, helping decision makers and planners foresee future trends.

Wu Zhiqiang said that planners do not need to be afraid of the future. "In the future, cities will always stand at the origin of their original intention. Don't forget that 'the beautiful life of people' will always be our initial point. No matter how far they go, they must return. 'Virtual' and 'real' are the same, and they serve the basic lives of the people in the city."

Xu Huili, Deputy Secretary-General of the Shanghai Municipal People's Government and Director of the Shanghai Municipal Urban Operation Management Center:

So, after urban planning, how can operation and management complement each other? Xu Huili took the planning and operation management of digital and actual communication as the topic of speech, and told how digital management was implemented in daily management. She said that from the perspective of "supplementary" perspective, urban planning is the most important foundation and chassis for urban operation and the starting point for all urban operation. However, if a city full of artistic atmosphere and imagination is truly transformed into a city that is inseparable from the operation of the city when planning, its imagination. "In the process of building a digital base in the city, Shanghai has abandoned the traditional concept of building a picture, but is making an ' automotive chassis ', and even including 'engine'. This chassis construction is more based on the virtual mapping of future physical cities to see the relationship between this complex and huge system. In this huge system, a relationship of virtual and real correspondence, mutual mapping, and coordinated interaction will be formed."

Xu Huili

Xu Huili said that under the background of the mutual reflection of digital and real, online urban space and offline urban space have actually been closely connected, and the linear relationship that was originally considered is becoming a three-dimensional, real-time, constantly interactive interaction and circular relationship. She took Nanshi Water Plant as an example. Nanshi Water Plant is a century-old water plant. It is a water plant independently built by the Chinese. It is also one of the three water plants in Shanghai with a history of more than a hundred years. It is still providing daily drinking water services to citizens of Huangpu District, Jing'an District, , and Putuo District. "The Nanshi Water Plant has a large number of buildings underground, and its external image is more like a small park. In the urban renewal and urban development, such a century-old water plant is showing new vitality and vitality as a digital management water plant. In ensuring the safety of urban drinking water and emergency drills, digital technology is used as a support, so that the old water plant can achieve a gorgeous turn in such a short time. It can be seen that digital technology has countless spaces for mutual integration and development in the new development of the city. Where this space is, it requires the wisdom and imagination of our planners." In addition, Xu Huili took the Expo Cultural Park as a case and told the story of the park having undergone digital operation and management planning at the beginning of its design, which has played a role in ensuring environmental management, night security, large passenger flow, on-site services, etc.

Nanshi Water Plant Full View

Nanshi Water Plant Digital Management

In addition, she talked about the digitalization of the construction of five new cities in Shanghai. "The traditional urban planning and design concepts have been deeply integrated with digitalization. We use digital thinking and the thinking of "future city" to plan the development of five new cities.In the process of digitalization, information infrastructure security, data security, security threat perception, comprehensive disaster monitoring and early warning are also aspects that need to be paid attention to. "

City is a living organism and an organism. In this regard, Xu Huili emphasized the participation of people. "Many resources are generated because of people, and many problems are caused because of people. Therefore, we must allow citizens to participate most in our planning, construction and operation. "

The Expo Cultural Park plot, which will be fully started in January 2019 and the Expo Cultural Park North District in December 2021

In the forum, science fiction writer and chairman of the World Chinese Science Fiction Association, Han Song discussed the future cities with the theme of "City, make the future life better". When mentioning this topic, people will remind people of the 2010 Shanghai World Expo. The futuristic technological and economic achievements are displayed on the shore of the Pujiang River, attracting countless people to watch it on the spot.

Han Song said that what the future cities will always be the proposition imagined by science fiction writers and futurists. "In 1860, Farnard imagined the 20th century Parisians living in skyscrapers, using copiers, printers, and even sitting on magnetic levitation. There are also people who imagine that the earth's resources are exhausted and the population is inflated, and humans can move underground or in the sea to live..." He said that the concept of cities is expanding: there are cities under the Antarctic continent under the writings of Jin Tao to stay away from the resource-depleted continent; there are lunar cities in the eyes of aerospace expert Lu Ji to receive humans who have walked out of the cradle of the earth; there are new cities after carbon neutrality is realized described by Chen Qiufan to embrace green civilization; there are cities built on the nanoscale described by Liu Cixin to reduce material consumption; there are He Xi who imagines building immigrant cities in Planck space to transfer the expanded population.

Han Song talks about future cities online

"When talking about cities, the most critical factor is the human factor. "A science fiction writer named Diptera wrote a story: Due to human management mistakes, when the Spring Festival comes, computer algorithms sent people who should have been around the country to Beijing through intelligent transportation system . Think about it, what is the situation when more than one billion people gather in a city overnight? This reminds people that as our lives increasingly rely on technology, the smarter the city is, the more people-oriented it is." In his opinion, In the future, cities must deal with three issues: First, basic living conditions and necessities guarantee, food and accommodation are still the most important, and electricity, chips, medicine, and elderly care facilities have also become necessities; Second, human survival is upgraded, and cities should provide residents with more benefits, including art, creative activities, freedom and respect; Third, survival value, and should respond to the question of residents' deeper concern, that is, what is the purpose of living, and give answers to life and the universe, which may be beyond material considerations.

Fengyuzhuyuan Universe Digital Art Museum

This forum was initiated by the Shanghai Municipal Planning and Natural Resources Bureau and hosted by Shanghai Urban Planning and Design Institute . Xiong Jian, Party Secretary and Vice President of Shanghai Urban Planning and Design Institute, said that in the post-epidemic era, people's lifestyles, thinking patterns and behavior patterns are also changing with the advancement of emerging technologies and the changes in communication methods. As planners, we often think about what the future city will be like?

It is understood that in the future, SEA-Hi! The forum will also plan many urban planning and future urban development related topics such as "urban renewal", "rural revitalization", and "climate response", hoping to incubate more forward-looking and public policies that are in line with the public's interests.