What is The Future for Cities?

Are you interested in the urban trends on 3 different time scales? Summary of the report titled 2025 Trend reports for planners from 2025, by Petra Hurtado PhD, Ievgeniia Dulko, Senna Catenacci, Joseph DeAngelis, Sagar Shah PhD, and Jason Jordan, published by the American Planning Association in partnership with the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy. This is a great preparation to our next intervie...

Are you interested in upcoming urban trends? What do you think about the need for investigating multiple futures in foresight? How can we utilise different timeframes to prepare for the future? Trailer for episode 352 - interview with Petra Hurtado, Chief Foresight and Knowledge Officer at the American Planning Association. We will talk about her vision for the future of cities, urban trends on di...

Are you interested in the urban energy matrix? What do you think is how our cities can change with abundant energy? How can we generate the right energy from the right sources for our urban communities? This episode is a panel discussion where the panellists discuss the different aspects of the urban energy matrix. Alan Pears , Adam Dorr , Ramez Naam and Mark Nelson talk about their vision for the...

Are you interested in the urban energy matrix? What do you think is how our cities can change with abundant energy? How can we generate the right energy from the right sources for our urban communities? Trailer for episode 350 - a panel discussion where the panellists discuss the different aspects of the urban energy matrix. Alan Pears, Adam Dorr, Ramez Naam and Mark Nelson talk about their vision...

Are you interested in the urban energy matrix? What do you think is how our cities can change with abundant energy? How can we generate the right energy from the right sources for our urban communities? Trailer for episode 350 - a panel discussion where the panellists discuss the different aspects of the urban energy matrix. Alan Pears, Adam Dorr, Ramez Naam and Mark Nelson talk about their vision...

Are you interested in the effects of superabundant energy? Summary of the article titled Superabundant energy – What will we do with it? from 2022, by Austin Vernon and Eli Dourado. This is a great preparation to episode 350 with ⁠Alan Pears⁠ , ⁠Adam Dorr⁠ , ⁠Ramez Naam⁠ and ⁠Mark Nelson about the urban energy matrix. Since we are investigating the future of cities, I thought it would be interesti...

Are you interested in the urban energy matrix? What do you think is how our cities can change with abundant energy? How can we generate the right energy from the right sources for our urban communities? Trailer for episode 350 - a panel discussion where the panellists discuss the different aspects of the urban energy matrix. Alan Pears, Adam Dorr, Ramez Naam and Mark Nelson talk about their vision...

Are you interested in the urban energy matrix? What do you think is how our cities can change with abundant energy? How can we generate the right energy from the right sources for our urban communities? Trailer for episode 350 - a panel discussion where the panellists discuss the different aspects of the urban energy matrix. Alan Pears, Adam Dorr, Ramez Naam and Mark Nelson talk about their vision...

"Are you engaging the community to build solutions to their problems to build the culture of accountability?" Are you interested in the economic powers of mid-sized cities? What do you think about cities as urban laboratories? How can we build a culture of accountability? Interview with Nicholas Lalla, urbanist and author of the book Reinventing The Heart Land. We will talk about his vis...

Are you interested in mid-sized cities and their economic contributions? Summary of the article titled The economy forward framework: How midsized cities can achieve inclusive growth in the knowledge economy from 2021, by Richard Florida PhD, Ross DeVol, Cordell Carter, Jennifer Hankins, and Nicholas Lalla, published by the Aspen Institute. This is a great preparation to our next interview with Ni...

Are you interested in the economic powers of mid-sized cities? What do you think about cities as urban laboratories? How can we build a culture of accountability? Trailer for episode 348 - interview with Nicholas Lalla, urbanist and author of the book Reinventing The Heart Land. We will talk about his vision for the future of cities, technology, economical power, culture of accountability, and man...

"Smart City should be proactive. That before anything [bad] happens would identify areas that need more attention." Are you interested in the proactive nature of smart cities? What do you think about the need for infrastructure to create adaptability? How can we utilise public-private-academic partnerships for better urban futures? Interview with Dr Mina Sartipi, founding director of the...

Are you interested in stakeholder opinions for smart cities? Summary of the article titled What do people want in a smart city? Exploring the stakeholders’ opinions, priorities, and perceived barriers in a medium-sized city in the United States from 2021, by Cristina Del-Real, Chandra Ward, and Mina Sartipi, published in the International Journal of Urban Sciences. This is a great preparation to o...

Are you interested in the proactive nature of smart cities? What do you think about the need for infrastructure to create adaptability? How can we utilise public-private-academic partnerships for better urban futures? Trailer for episode 346 - interview with Dr Mina Sartipi, founding director of the Center for Urban Informatics and Progress (CUIP) and Guerry Professor at the University of Tennesse...

"We've got to start making projects shovel-worthy, not shovel-ready." Are you interested in digital transformation? What do you think about the phrase: “we’ve got to start making projects shovel-worthy instead of shovel-ready”? How can we find and create the magic we’re looking for in the work we’re avoiding? Interview with Mark Coates, Vice President of Infrastructure Policy Advance...

Are you interested in the concept of sponge cities? Summary of the white paper titled Creating sponge cities to tackle surface water flooding from 2025, by Mark Coates and Neal Edmondson, published on the Infrastructure Policy Advancement website. This is a great preparation to our next interview with Mark Coates in episode 344 talking about infrastructure and sponge cities, among others. Since we...

Are you interested in digital transformation? What do you think about the phrase: “we’ve got to start making projects shovel-worthy instead of shovel-ready”? How can we find and create the magic we’re looking for in the work we’re avoiding? Trailer for episode 344 - interview with Mark Coates, Vice President of Infrastructure Policy Advancement at Bentley Systems. We will talk about his vision for...

"In some ways, maybe what we're all doing now is separations with a spatial apparatus." Are you interested in spatial language? What do you think about the ever present urbanism concept? How can we leverage space as an opportunity? Interview with Keller Easterling, an architect, writer, and the Enid Storm Dwyer Professor of Architecture at Yale University. We will talk about her visi...

Are you interested in urban expansion shifts across 3 decades? Summary of the article titled Global urban structure growth shows a profound shift from spreading out to building up from 2024, by Steve Frolking, Richa Mahtta, Tom Milliman, Thomas Esch, and Karen C. Seto, published in the Nature Cities journal. This is a great preparation to our next interview with Keller Easterling in episode 342 ta...

Are you interested in spatial language? What do you think about the ever present urbanism concept? How can we leverage space as an opportunity? Interview with Keller Easterling, an architect, writer, and the Enid Storm Dwyer Professor of Architecture at Yale University. We will talk about her vision for the future of cities, solidarity and collaboration, spatial language, democracy, and many more....

Are you interested in how empowered children can change the future of cities? What do you think about the Taking Children Seriously approach? How can we bring up the next generation in the learning machine, also known as the city? Interview with Aaron Stupple, physician and author of The Sovereign Child, and Logan Chipkin, president of Conjecture Institute and junior author of The Sovereign Child....

Are you interested in bringing up the next generation as sovereign individuals for better urban futures? Summary of the book titled The Sovereign Child: A Radically Noncoercive Approach to Parenting from 2025, by Aaron Stupple. This is a great preparation to our next interview with Aaron Stupple and Logan Chipkin in episode 340 talking about the challenges and opportunities for the next generation...

Are you interested in how empowered children can change the future of cities? What do you think about the Taking Children Seriously approach? How can we bring up the next generation in the learning machine, also known as the city? Trailer for episode 340 - interview with Aaron Stupple, physician and author of The Sovereign Child, and Logan Chipkin, president of Conjecture Institute and junior auth...

"The future of cities will be delivered by that 8-year old. Because that 8-year old is soon 18 and then 28." Are you interested in involving the next generation into the building industry? What do you think about the knowledge and behaviour shortage? How can we encourage real partnerships between schools and the industry? Interview with Alison Watson, Founder and Chief Executive of Class Of Your O...

Are you interested in the concept of child-friendly cities? Our summary today works with the article titled Child-friendly cities and communities: opportunities and challenges from 2024, by Rhian Powell, published in the Children’s Geographies journal. This is a great preparation to our next interview with Alison Watson in episode 338 talking about the need to include the next generation when we t...