What is The Future for Cities?

Are you interested in circular economy? Summary of the article titled Circular economy: a brief literature review from 2021 by Erick Hungaro Arruda, Rosangela Andrade Pita Brancalhao Melatto, Wilson Levy, and Diego de Melo Conti, published in the Sustainable Operations and Computers journal. This is a great preparation for our next interviewee, Dr Nicole Garofano in episode 171 talking about circu...

Are you interested in the difference between fairness and equity? What do you think about experimenting instead of trial and error? How can we use water more wisely? Interview with Jennifer George, commercialisation expert and strategic thinker. We talk about her vision for the future of cities, empathy, trial and error being so last century, equity and many more. Jennifer George is an experienced...

Are you interested in why smart city initiatives fail sustainability? Summary of the article titled Smart city beyond efficiency: Technology-policy-community at play for sustainable urban futures from 2020 by Tan Yigitcanlar, published in the Housing Policy Debate journal. Since we are investigating the future of cities, I thought it would be interesting to see what smart city initiatives overlook...

Trailer for episode 168 - interview with Jennifer George, commercialisation expert and strategic thinker. We talk about her vision for the future of cities, empathy, trial and error being so last century, equity and many more. Find out more in the  interview ! Music by  Lesfm  from  Pixabay

Are you interested in synthetising a city’s intelligent to be smart? Summary of the article titled What makes a city ‘smart’? from 2016 by Emine Mine Thompson, published in the International Journal of Architectural Computing. Since we are investigating the future of cities, I thought it would be interesting to see city governance using information and communication and sensing technologies. This...

Are you interested in how to move and look forward to a better future after negative experiences? What do you think about resilience? How can we become more antifragile and creative for better futures? Interview with Michael Healy, the Smart Cities Programme Manager at Christchurch City Council. We talk about his vision for the future of cities, smart city as the R&D department, the use cases...

Are you interested in whether a resilient community is a sustainable one? Summary of the article titled A discussion of resilience and sustainability: Land use planning recover from the Canterbury earthquake sequence, New Zealand from 2015 by W.S.A. Saunders and J.S. Becker, published in the International Journal of Disaster Rick Reduction. Since we are investigating the future of cities, I though...

Trailer for episode 165 - interview with Michael Healy, the Smart Cities Programme Manager at Christchurch City Council. We talk about his vision for the future of cities, smart city as the R&D department, the use cases for AI, conflux of natural effects, and many more. Find out more in the  interview ! Music by  Lesfm  from  Pixabay

Are you interested in rethinking resilience? Summary of the article titled Rethinking resilience: Reflections on the earthquakes in Christchurch, New Zealand, 2010 and 2011 from 2013 by Bronwyn Mary Hayward, published in the Ecology and Society journal. Since we are investigating the future of cities, I thought it would be interesting to see how to rethink resilience after natural disasters. This...

Are you interested in the smart city as making urban life easier for people? What do you think about standards and their uses? How can we use the urban lifecycle approach? Interview with Warren Hill, enterprise account director at Appscore. We talk about his vision for the future of cities, combination of different visions, the use of standards, the economic concerns, and many more. Warren Hill ha...

Are you interested in the privacy and security aspects of smart city solutions? Summary of the article titled Perception of the quality of smart city solutions as a sense of residents’ safety from 2021 by Justína Zywiolek and Francesco Schiavone, published in the Energies journal. Since we are investigating the future of cities, I thought it would be interesting to see how to examine the safety an...

Trailer for episode 162 - interview with Warren Hill, enterprise account director at Appscore. We talk about his vision for the future of cities, combination of different visions, the use of standards, the economic concerns, and many more. Find out more in the  interview ! Music by  Lesfm  from  Pixabay

Are you interested in the city as the theatre for social action? Summary of the article titled What is a city? from 1937 by Lewis Mumford, from the Architectural Record. Since we are investigating the future of cities, I thought it would be interesting to see how the city can be understood beyond the usual suspects of people, infrastructure and networks. This article presents Mumford’s proposition...

Are you interested in the Aboriginal understanding of country? What do you think about water in cities? How can we become more connected to country itself? Interview with Michael Browne, manager at Melbourne Water. We talk about his vision for the future of cities, aboriginal and indigenous ideas, what water means to country, resilience, and many more. Michael is a proud Barkandji/ Wemba Wemba man...

Are you interested in Aboriginal value integration into water planning? Summary of the article titled Integrating Aboriginal cultural values into water planning: a case study from New South Wales, Australia from 2019 by Bradley J. Moggridge, Lyndal Betterridge, and Ross M. Thompson, published in the Australasian Journal of Environmental Management. Since we are investigating the future of cities,...

Trailer for episode 159 - the interview with Michael Browne, manager at Melbourne Water. We talk about his vision for the future of cities, aboriginal and indigenous ideas, what water means to country, resilience, and many more. Find out more in the  interview ! Music by  Lesfm  from  Pixabay

Are you interested in both smartness and the city in the smart city concept? Summary of the article titled Ontological review of smart city research from 2017 by Arkalgud Ramaprasad, Aurora Sánchez-Ortiz and Thant Syn, presented at the Twenty-third Americas Conference on Information Systems. Since we are investigating the future of cities, I thought it would be interesting to see how academic rese...

"We are architects of our life, not victims of it" !!!!Book giveaway details at the bottom!!!! Are you interested in the city as the emergent property of the urban agents? What do you think about collective responsibility? How can we create better urban futures? This is a very special celebratory birthday episode because I am interviewed by a very special guesthost – Ben Vass, Graph Sham...

What action will you take to create a better future for cities, thus humanity? The celebration of the second year of the podcast! I would like to thank you all for joining me on this adventure. I am really grateful for your support. And I am especially thankful for my interviewees who took the time to appear on the podcast and share their ideas and insights. And stay tuned to learn what's ahea...

Trailer for the celebratory episode 156 - the interview with yours truly, Fanni Melles. I am interviewed by a very special guesthost – Ben Vass, Graph Shaman. Ben interviewed me because I finished my PhD and thought it is time to share my knowledge with you guys – using the birthday celebration as well. We talk about my vision for the future of cities, smarter cities and smarter approaches, collec...

Are you interested in why the smart city is complete rubbish? We are starting our 2nd birthday celebration today!!! Our summary today works with the presentation titled Smart City? Smarter City? Smarter Approach? The Smarter City Flywheel from 2023 by yours truly, Fanni Melles, presented at several companies as a result and evolution of my PhD research. Since we are investigating the future of cit...

Are you interested in how to talk about sustainability for people to care? What do you think about education about sustainability? How can we become more connected and more data-driven at the same time? Interview with Ana Enache, overall sustainability enthusiast and Chief of Staff at AppScore. We talk about her vision for the future of cities, not taking actions, technology as a neutral tool, sma...

Are you interested in where the three pillars of sustainability came from? Summary of the article titled Three pillars of sustainability: in search of conceptual origins from 2018 by Ben Purvis, Yong Mao and Darren Robinson, published in the Sustainability Science journal. Since we are investigating the future of cities, I thought it would be interesting to see how the three pillars of sustainabil...

Trailer for episode 153 - interview with Ana Enache, overall sustainability enthusiast and Chief of Staff at Appscore. We talk about her vision for the future of cities, not taking actions, technology as a neutral tool, smart and educated citizens and many more. Find out more in the  interview ! Music by  Lesfm  from  Pixabay

Are you interested in the aesthetics of sustainable architecture? Summary of the article titled Aesthetics of sustainability and architecture: An overview from 2020 by Aurelija Daugelaite and Indre Grazuleviciute-Vileniske, published in the Urban Studies journal. Since we are investigating the future of cities, I thought it would be interesting to see whether the aesthetics of sustainable architec...