Designing Sustainable Urban Systems: Features, Metrics, and Processes; September 2019, Washington,D.C.

我们国家的城市已经成为我们大多数公民的家园，并创造了我们80%的国内生产总值。到2050年，多达三分之二的公民将把城市空间称为自己的家。然而，我们城市的好处、潜力和问题并不以边界为起点和终点。我们认识到城市空间与其周围的郊区和农村地区密切相关。其中每一种都依赖于另一种：食物、工人、工作、融资等等。然而，技术的快速变化、资源挑战和社会分化，使我们对城市及其周边环境的理解和改善变得比以往任何时候都更加复杂。需要新的方法，它们将受益于所有利益攸关方之间的深度整合。该项目将领导人、公民和科学家聚集在一起，探索研究和了解我们的城市如何运作以及它们如何影响周围更大地区的共同方法。几十年来，我们一直认为构成城市及其周围环境的各种系统是孤立子系统的集合。输送水的方式和我们捡垃圾的方式是分开的。让人们工作的方法和我们把食物送上餐桌的方法是不同的。这种城市规划和管理的组成部分观点虽然实际可行，但却造成了许多意想不到的后果，其后果现在才开始感受到，但将在几十年内产生影响。随着新的测量和自动化技术在未来10年上线，这些分歧将成为问题。了解如何整合这些学科以及与之相关的数据、指标和算法对于使我们的城市宜居至关重要。该项目是通过基于设计的多学科交流方法，朝着发展可持续连接城市系统的独特科学迈出的一步。在为期两天的会议中，来自不同科学和学术学科的思想家与城市、郊区和农村的代表一起制定议程，我们需要帮助我们的城市和公民在面对前所未有的挑战时茁壮成长。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

Our nation's cities are already home to the majority of our citizens and generate 80% of our gross domestic product. By 2050 as many as two-thirds of our citizens will call urban spaces their homes. Yet the benefits, potential, and problems of our cities do not begin and end at their borders. We recognize that urban spaces are intimately connected to the suburban and rural places around them. Each of these depends upon the other for something: food, workers, jobs, financing, and much more. Rapid changes in technologies, resource challenges, and social divisions, however, are making understanding and improving our cities and their surroundings more complex than ever. New approaches are needed and they will benefit from deep integration among all stakeholders. This project brings together leaders, citizens, and scientists to explore common ways of studying and learning how our cities operate and how they affect the larger regions around them.For many decades now, we have considered the various systems that comprise our cities and their surroundings as collections of isolated sub-systems. There are ways to deliver water, that are separate from the ways we pick up trash. There are ways to get people to work that are separate from the ways we get food to our tables. While practical, this component view of urban planning and management has created many unintended consequences whose ramifications are only now beginning to be felt, but which will reverberate for decades. These divisions will become problematic as new technologies of measurement and automation come online in the next decade. Understanding how to integrate these disciplines and the data, metrics, and algorithms associated with them will be essential to making our cities livable. This project is a step toward developing a distinct science of sustainably connected urban systems through design-based methods of multidisciplinary communication. Over the 2 days of this conference, thinkers from diverse scientific and academic disciplines engage with city, suburban, and rural representatives to develop the agenda we need to help our cities and citizens thrive in the face of unprecedented challenges.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.