What is The Future for Cities?

Are you interested in urban progress with artificial intelligence? Summary of the white paper titled Agentic AI: The future is now from 2025, by VANTIQ. This is a great preparation to our next interview with Nick Bray in episode 304 talking about how open architecture systems and artificial intelligence are changing our lives. Since we are investigating the future of cities, I thought it would be...

Are you interested in different levels of AI agents assisting human decision-making? What do you think about open architecture technological systems? How can we democratise technology? Trailer for episode 304 - interview with Nick Bray, VP of Global Defence and Security at VANTIQ. We will talk about his vision for the future of cities, AI levels, technology, optimism, smartness, naming lazyness, a...

"I think there is a bit of community / social imperative that we should be standing up for what we want, demanding more." Are you interested in institutional accountability? What do you think about starting from taking pride in your own community? How can we take responsibility for mistakes made on the organisational level? Interview with Darren Murphy, CEO and founder of Core Integrity....

Are you interested in urban governance accountability? Summary of the article titled A framework for assessing the accountability of local governance arrangements for adaptation to climate change from 2019, by Heleen Mees and Peter Driessen, published in the Journal of Environmental Planning and Management. This is a great preparation to our next interview with Darren Murphy in episode 302 talking...

Are you interested in institutional accountability? What do you think about starting from taking pride in your own community? How can we take responsibility for mistakes made on the organisational level? Trailer for episode 302 - interview with Darren Murphy, CEO and founder of Core Integrity. We will talk about his vision for the future of cities, levels of accountability, taking the first steps,...

Are you interested in urban food production? What do you think is the difference between food production and agriculture? How can we retrofit urban infrastructure to produce more food in cities? This episode is a panel discussion where we investigate urban food production aspects. The panellists, Adam Dorr, Nadun Hennayaka, and Simon Burt talk about their vision for the future of cities, urban foo...

Are you interested in urban food production? What do you think is the difference between food production and agriculture? How can we retrofit urban infrastructure to produce more food in cities? Trailer for episode 300 - a panel discussion where we investigate urban food production aspects. The panellists, Adam Dorr, Nadun Hennayaka, and Simon Burt talk about their vision for the future of cities,...

Are you interested in urban food production approaches? Summary of the article titled Validating the City Region Food System Approach: Enacting inclusive, transformational City Region Food Systems from 2018, by Alison Blay-Palmer, Guido Santini, Marielle Dubbeling, Henk Renting, Makiko Taguchi, and Thierry Giordano, published in the MDPI Sustainability journal. This is a great preparation to our n...

Are you interested in urban food production? What do you think is the difference between food production and agriculture? How can we retrofit urban infrastructure to produce more food in cities? Trailer for episode 300 - a panel discussion where we investigate urban food production aspects. The panellists, Adam Dorr, Nadun Hennayaka, and Simon Burt talk about their vision for the future of cities,...

Are you interested in urban food production? What do you think is the difference between food production and agriculture? How can we retrofit urban infrastructure to produce more food in cities? Trailer for episode 300 - a panel discussion where we investigate urban food production aspects. The panellists, Adam Dorr, Nadun Hennayaka, and Simon Burt talk about their vision for the future of cities,...

"[The city] is a system that is difficult to map, but it is evolving." Are you interested in allowing governments to fail? What do you think about systems thinking? How can we help governments be bold? Interview with Carina Gormley, senior associate at the Centre for Public Impact’s Climate Change Initiative. We will talk about her vision for the future of cities, sustainability, the rol...

Are you interested in hallucinating to solve urban challenges? Summary of the report titled Harnessing social imagination in the era of the climate crisis by the Centre for Public Impact, published on their website. This is a great preparation to our next interview with Carina Gormley in episode 298 talking about the need for our collective imagination to solve the climate crisis, for example. Sin...

Are you interested in allowing governments to fail? What do you think about systems thinking? How can we help governments be bold? Trailer for episode 298 - interview with Carina Gormley, senior associate at the Centre for Public Impact’s Climate Change Initiative. We will talk about her vision for the future of cities, sustainability, the role of governments, room for failure, and many more. Find...

"You can't waste a crises!" Are you interested in cities as places for experiments? What do you think about respectful disagreements? How can we create good partnerships between different stakeholders? Interview with Sally Capp, Non-Executive Director of Faculty of Business and Economics at the University of Melbourne and the former Lord Mayor of Melbourne. We talk about her vision f...

Are you interested in public-private partnerships for improved urban futures? Summary of the article titled Critical success factors for public-private partnerships in urban regeneration projects from 2024 by Paula Vale de Paula, Rui Cunha Marques, and Jorge Manuel Goncalves, published in the MDPI Infrastructures journal. This is a great preparation to our next interview with Sally Capp in episode...

Are you interested in cities as places for experiments? What do you think about respectful disagreements? How can we create good partnerships between different stakeholders? Trailer for episode 296 - interview with Sally Capp, Non-Executive Director of Faculty of Business and Economics at the University of Melbourne and the former Lord Mayor of Melbourne. We talk about her vision for the future of...

"You can' have a choice if you don't have opportunities." Are you interested in the 3 tasks governance should do? What do you think about service-based governments? How can we create good governance and governments? Interview with Erick Brimen, CEO of Honduras Próspera and NeWay Capital. We talk about his vision for the future of cities, choices and options, the role of governmen...

Are you interested in the changing governmental roles in urban transformations? Summary of the article titled Rethinking the governance of urban infrastructural transformations: a synthesis of emerging approaches from 2022 by Jochen Monstadt, Jonas Colen Ladeia Torrens, Mansi Jain, Rachel M Macrorie, and Shaun R Smith, published in the Environmental Sustainability journal. This is a great preparat...

Are you interested in the 3 tasks governance should do? What do you think about service-based governments? How can we create good governance and governments? Trailer for episode 294 - interview with Erick Brimen, CEO of Honduras Próspera and NeWay Capital. We talk about his vision for the future of cities, choices and options, the role of government, political, and many more. So, let’s start with...

"It's less interesting how technology changes people than how people change technologies." Are you interested in urban water management? What do you think about overstressed urban infrastructure? How can we provide water as a right for everyone? Interview with Anthony Acciavatti, Diana Balmori Assistant Professor at Yale University. We talk about his vision for the future of cities,...

Are you interested in urban water management? Summary of the article titled Future global urban water scarcity and potential solutions from 2021 by Chunyang He, Zhifeng Liu, Jianguo Wu, Xinhao Pan, Zihang Fang, Jingwei Li, and Brett A. Bryan, published in the Nature Communications journal. This is a great preparation to our next interview with Anthony Acciavatti in episode 292 talking about water...

"It's less interesting how technology changes people than how people change technologies." Are you interested in urban water management? What do you think about overstressed urban infrastructure? How can we provide water as a right for everyone? Interview with Anthony Acciavatti, Diana Balmori Assistant Professor at Yale University. We talk about his vision for the future of cities, urban density,...

"Urban living is very dense, that lands it being more resource efficient." Are you interested in housing affordability projects? What do you think about successful cities? How can we make the 2nd and 3rd order consequences as part of policy-making? Interview with Jen Borrero, a Colombian-Mexican Impact Entrepreneur and Community Developer. We talk about her vision for the future of cities, housing...

Are you interested in urban housing affordability? Summary of the article titled A fresh look at contemporary perspectives on urban housing affordability from 2021 by Marietta E. A. Haffner and Kath Hulse, published in the International Journal of Urban Sciences. This is a great preparation to our next interview with Jennifer Borrero in episode 290 talking about how housing affordability can be ac...

Are you interested in housing affordability projects? What do you think about successful cities? How can we make the 2nd and 3rd order consequences as part of policy-making? Interview with Jen Borrero, a Colombian-Mexican Impact Entrepreneur and Community Developer. We talk about her vision for the future of cities, housing affordability, youth engagement, success for cities, policy making, and ma...