What is The Future for Cities?

Are you interested in AI-driven urban transformations? Debate of the article titled The fundamental issues and development trends of AI-driven transformations in urban transit and urban space from 2025, by Haishan Xia, Renwei Liu, Lu Li, and Yilan Zhang, published in the Sustainable Cities and Society journal. This is a great preparation to our next interview with Josh Rands in episode 368 talking...

Are you interested in predicting urban transportation systems and their effects? What do you think about transportation as the movement of people and goods? How can we consider the first, second and third rate consequences? Trailer for episode 368 - interview with Josh Rands, Co-Founder and CEO at TerraCity. We will talk about his vision for the future of cities, transportation, sustainability, se...

Are you interested in predicting urban transportation systems and their effects? What do you think about transportation as the movement of people and goods? How can we consider the first, second and third rate consequences? Trailer for episode 368 - interview with Josh Rands, Co-Founder and CEO at TerraCity. We will talk about his vision for the future of cities, transportation, sustainability, se...

"Place isn't optional, we have to have a place. So we have to constantly figure it out." Are you interested in place branding? What do you think about participating in the civic brand at your place? How can we involve the next generation to create urban futures? Interview with Ryan Short, author of ‘The Civic Brand: The Power & Responsibility of Place’ and co-founder of CivicBran...

Are you interested in place branding? What do you think about participating in the civic brand at your place? How can we involve the next generation to create urban futures? Trailer for episode 366 - interview with Ryan Short, author of ‘The Civic Brand: The Power & Responsibility of Place’ and co-founder of CivicBrand. We will talk about his vision for the future of cities, place branding, ch...

Are you interested in place branding? Our summary today works with the book titled The Civic Brand: The Power & Responsibility of Place from 2025, by Ryan Short. This is a great preparation to our next interview with Ryan Short in episode 366 talking about place branding and the civic brand. Since we are investigating the future of cities, I thought it would be interesting to see how we can ut...

Are you interested in place branding? What do you think about participating in the civic brand at your place? How can we involve the next generation to create urban futures? Trailer for episode 366 - interview with Ryan Short, author of ‘The Civic Brand: The Power & Responsibility of Place’ and co-founder of CivicBrand. We will talk about his vision for the future of cities, place branding, ch...

Are you interested in place branding? What do you think about participating in the civic brand at your place? How can we involve the next generation to create urban futures? Trailer for episode 366 - interview with Ryan Short, author of ‘The Civic Brand: The Power & Responsibility of Place’ and co-founder of CivicBrand. We will talk about his vision for the future of cities, place branding, ch...

"We have an obligation ... to be aware of our surroundings, of the impact we have ... and to keep us all safe." Are you interested in traffic safety? What do you think about the government's role in enhancing urban road safety? How can we bring up the next generation to create better future for everyone? Interview with Brett Ferrin, VP of Sales for North America at Traffic Logix . We...

Are you interested in resilience as bouncing forward? What do you think about city sandboxing? How can we increase our adaptive capacity as individuals, communities and cities? Trailer for episode 364 - interview with Sam Kernaghan, Director for the Resilience Program at the Committee for Sydney. We will talk about his vision for the future of cities, data and decision-making, resilience, experime...

Are you interested in urban traffic safety and its effects on urban planning? Debate of the article titled Intelligent transportation systems for sustainable smart cities from 2024, by Mohamed Elassy, Mohammed Al-Hattab, Maen Takruri, and Sufian Badawi, published in the Transportation Engineering journal. This is a great preparation to our next interview with Brett Ferrin in episode 364 talking ab...

Are you interested in resilience as bouncing forward? What do you think about city sandboxing? How can we increase our adaptive capacity as individuals, communities and cities? Trailer for episode 364 - interview with Sam Kernaghan, Director for the Resilience Program at the Committee for Sydney. We will talk about his vision for the future of cities, data and decision-making, resilience, experime...

Are you interested in resilience as bouncing forward? What do you think about city sandboxing? How can we increase our adaptive capacity as individuals, communities and cities? Trailer for episode 364 - interview with Sam Kernaghan, Director for the Resilience Program at the Committee for Sydney. We will talk about his vision for the future of cities, data and decision-making, resilience, experime...

"Resilience is not going back to the original levels... It's not possible. It's actually about going forward." Are you interested in resilience as bouncing forward? What do you think about city sandboxing? How can we increase our adaptive capacity as individuals, communities and cities? Interview with Sam Kernaghan, Director for the Resilience Program at the Committee for Sydney....

Are you interested in resilience as bouncing forward? What do you think about city sandboxing? How can we increase our adaptive capacity as individuals, communities and cities? Trailer for episode 362 - interview with Sam Kernaghan, Director for the Resilience Program at the Committee for Sydney. We will talk about his vision for the future of cities, data and decision-making, resilience, experime...

Are you interested in resilience as bouncing forward? Debate of the article titled Resilience and the Sustainable Development Goals: a scrutiny of urban strategies in the 100 Resilient Cities initiative from 2024, by Elisa Kochskämper, Lisa-Maria Glass, Wolfgang Haupt, Shirin Malekpour and Jarrod Grainger-Brown, published in the Journal of Environmental Planning and Management. This is a great pre...

Are you interested in resilience as bouncing forward? What do you think about city sandboxing? How can we increase our adaptive capacity as individuals, communities and cities? Trailer for episode 362 - interview with Sam Kernaghan, Director for the Resilience Program at the Committee for Sydney. We will talk about his vision for the future of cities, data and decision-making, resilience, experime...

Are you interested in resilience as bouncing forward? What do you think about city sandboxing? How can we increase our adaptive capacity as individuals, communities and cities? Trailer for episode 362 - interview with Sam Kernaghan, Director for the Resilience Program at the Committee for Sydney. We will talk about his vision for the future of cities, data and decision-making, resilience, experime...

"Residuality Theory is the idea that a random simulation of stress is more efficient than precision and prediction in a complex environment." Are you interested in creating antifragile systems? What do you think about the utilisation of residuals? How can we pivot smartness from the marketing to the innovative understanding? Interview with Barry O’Reilly, software architect. This is a sp...

Are you interested in creating antifragile systems? What do you think about the utilisation of residuals? How can we pivot smartness from the marketing to the innovative understanding? Trailer for episode 360 - interview with Barry O’Reilly, software architect. This is a special episode because of Barry’s Residuality Theory which was established for software architecture but I think it can be VERY...

Are you interested in how to create antifragile systems? Summary of the articles titled An introduction to Residuality Theory: Software design heuritics for complex systems and Residuality Theory, random simulation, and attractor networks from 2020 and 2022, by Barry M O’Reilly, presented at International Workshop on Computational Antifragility and Antifragile Engineering. This is a great preparat...

Are you interested in creating antifragile systems? What do you think about the utilisation of residuals? How can we pivot smartness from the marketing to the innovative understanding? Trailer for episode 360 - interview with Barry O’Reilly, software architect. This is a special episode because of Barry’s Residuality Theory which was established for software architecture but I think it can be VERY...

Are you interested in creating antifragile systems? What do you think about the utilisation of residuals? How can we pivot smartness from the marketing to the innovative understanding? Trailer for episode 360 - interview with Barry O’Reilly, software architect. This is a special episode because of Barry’s Residuality Theory which was established for software architecture but I think it can be VERY...

Welcome back to What is The Future for Cities? Podcast! In our last episode , we took a moment to reflect on a year of incredible conversations. Now, with that wisdom in our sails, I want to look forward, to chart the course for what's next on our shared journey. The conversations are only getting deeper. We're going to be exploring some truly fascinating and critical territory. We'll...

Welcome to the 4th birthday episode of What is The Future for Cities? Podcast! As we celebrate another year of "What is The Future for Cities?", it’s a fitting moment to pause and reflect on the incredible journey we've taken together over the last 101 episodes, like the dalmatians. From episode 255 to 356, we’ve traversed a complex and fascinating landscape of urban thought, guided by a diverse c...