The Organic City

This presentation shows the work which me a two team mates did within a one week brief. The subject matter was the organic city and finding ways we can use the city to create a more functional and effective system which would benefit cities around the world.

Our choice was to focus on Health and Transport and designed a new system which incorporates these two aspects into potentially a more productive form of healthcare in major cities.

We mind mapped, researched and developed a system to construct a final concept. Tram rails and hospital care would be used to create a range of different services such as:

1) Hospital trams - Uses Tram rails to avoid and gain priority over traffic
Transport patients much faster
Cut out sharp street corners and bumps in the road for smoother journeys

2) Medical campuses - Transport medical supplies more efficiently across cities to different medical campuses
Allow more areas for immediate medical attention

3) Patient Monitors - Allow faster medical attention to patients under caution.

This system would aim to be implemented in medium sized cities already with a tram line such as Manchester (UK). With more success it could mean that new cities being built could implement this tram oriented healthcare and the economy could be layed out around it so that the systems healthcare can be given priority over other forms of transport in the city making the system much more efficient. In the future it could also evolve to be implemented in all cities around the world once it has been proven to work and would mean that a more thriving healthcare can me developed on a global scale creating better service for everyone.

1. Designed by: Michael Solaymantash Neko Chen Zhenman Li How could distributed mobile healthcare networks change future city?

2. Urbanism What is the context for the project/What is involved with your idea e.g. health, mobility, cities. Today, almost half of the global population lives in the cities - a drastic contrast to the last century when some 90 percent lived in smaller settlements. Due largely to the development of economy and technology driven the trend of urbanism, there are more societal problem facing people. Particularly, the traffic problem and unequitable resource distribution .

3. 02/10/2014 the chance of su r vival living in city got heart attack suddenly call 120 immediately emergency service set out arrival and pick up patients N o ambulance car in service， you have to wait waiting 15-20 mins 40 minutes to delivery the patient 3 kilometers

4. the problems ... - Medical Resource Distribution Every 50 thousand people are distributed 1 ambulance car and 5 car i ers. 50 thousand 1 5 = +

5. 02/10/2014 - City C ongestion Normally, In the situation of smooth traffic flow, it will cost emergency center 15 to 20 mins to get there. However, patients always have to wait for a long time. and the main reason why emergency service late is congestion.

6. Current alarm response healthcare Ambulance services have to respond to 75% of category A calls within eight minutes. The data shows that the median is less than that.

7. 02/10/2014 - Reponse another factor conneted with emergency response time i s i ndividuals ' own knowlegement of fir s t aid .

8. Individual - patients Community - clinics, traffic, information City level - a combined network 3 levels

9. Individually – connector connector How can a patient inform his/her health condition to hospital

10. Current alarm systems Weight: Feel heavy on the users hand Volume: large so are not comfortable How to use: They require the user to push them when they are in an emergency situation and they may not have the capabilities to do this

11. Our suggestion - Wristband Strong information link/ Navigation/ Prediction: constantly body-check and linked to the information system .We will automatically know who and where you are, and whether to inform your chosen contacts or the emergency services Work hours: Emergency response centre open 24 hours a day, 365 days a year (maintaining time: On-site maintenance available within 48 hours) *Market promotion: Save money if you buy online and Self-Connect / or supported by the government

12. What we need to know to better support w ristband ? 1. The technology criteria (e.g. the body-check process, how small it can be made?) Look into potential technologies 2. The ergonomic factors Make prototypes and test with different patients (age, gender) 3. The patients demands (e.g. emotional demands, special needs) - By questionnaire, interview

13. 02 using the tram system How can people be sent to hospital faster?

14. 02 using the tram system The current tram system can be a part of the system The tram is specialize Carrier a small ambulance - Medical facilities would be fit in the tram.

15. network model description patients clinics hospital satellite information flow tram

16. How the tram works 01 02 03 Medical facilities would be held in the mini ambulance

17. Trams to the user Our system will run at an average speed of 70km/h so it will be able to run faster than current healthcare services It will be more reliable than other forms of transport. as it can avoid traffic and reach its destination in better time. Our emergency journeys will be smoother than other forms of transport so medical staff can interact more carefully and securely with a patient. It will be much more energy effective than current healthcare services Provide a higher capacity for inventory than ambulances

18. Potential healthcare mobility in future cities How big the city is and the scale of implementing the system, What kind of city would be best to use W ould we build the city around the transport or the transport around the city and why? Will there be other more convenient forms of transport in the future that could be based around our design?

19. What we need to know to better support the tram system design? 1. The technology criteria (for example: what necessary facilities should be included in the tram, what kind of technologies can make the tram better fit the city ) Look into potential technologies 2. The ergonomic factors (how big should the tram be? ) Make prototypes and test with different patients (age, gender) 3. The patients demands (what exactly are needed when patient in emergency) - By questionnaire, interview, data from hospital

20. City Level A combination of clinic, traffic, information Alarm system Using the existing tram system A network of clinics A network of shared information (individual- clinics- hospitals- traffic)

21. City Level

22. network model description patients clinics hospital satellite information flow tram

23. What we need to know in the city scale the relationship between healthcare and transport provision in today’s cities The relationship among traffic performance, vehicles and the healthcare points in the city. what is the scale of distribution networks to support the need of citizens in the future

24. What we need to know in the city scale the relationship between healthcare and transport provision in today’s cities collect data from hospital about the comment of emergency help by patients - Interview patients to know their anticipation. Interview ambulance drivers to find the advantages, disadvantages of transporting people or supplies in the city . Interview Nurses and Doctors to find out the inventory issues in different hospitals and try to find out issues relating to emergencies in the city and how they would cope with major disasters, which affected lots of people .

25. What we need to know in the city scale 2. The relationship among traffic performance, vehicles and the healthcare points in the city. 3. The scale of distribution networks to support the need of citizens in the future -map the healthcare points in the city -Testing the system/Observation: Ride in the ambulance on an emergency run. calculate the time needed from different places to different clinics by different vehicles. - Collect data of frequency of emergency calling from hospitals. investigate the financial capacity from related organizations Secondary research: ‘Future transport in cities’ (Richards 2001)

26. Potential Risks The funding The ethical problems (private detailed from patients, staffs of healthcare system)

27. - Thank You -

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