What is The Future for Cities?

Summary of the article titled Beyond defining the smart city – Meeting top-down and bottom-up approaches in the middle from 2014 by Jonas Breuer, Nils Walravens, and Pieter Ballon, presented at the Eight International Conference INPUT 2014 titled Smart City – Planning for Energy, Transportation and Sustainability, and published in the Journal of Land Use, Mobility and Environment.  Since we a...

Interview with Nataly Arevalo, an environmental designer, urban researcher, and lecturer. We talk about her vision for the future of cities, environmental behaviour research, human sensing and its effects of psychology, and many more.  Nataly is a PhD in environmental designer, urban researcher, and lecturer. She applies evidence from environmental behaviour research into architecture and urb...

Summary of the article titled Functionality between the size and indicators of smart cities: A research challenge with policy implications from 2018 by Kamila Borsekova, Samuel Koróny, Anna Vaňová, and Katarína Vitálišová, published in the Cities journal.  Since we are investigating the future of cities, I thought it would be interesting to see an investigation into the connection between sma...

The celebration of the first 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. Stay tuned for a special announcement at the end of the episode! You can find the shownotes through this link and the t...

Interview with Ammon Beyerle, architect, urban designer, and lecturer. We talk about their vision for the future of cities, participatory design, the 3 ecologies, affordability, and many more.  Ammon Beyerle is a practicing architect, urban designer, and academic with a speciality in participatory design. They recently completed a PhD in participation in architecture and urban design (2018) ;...

Summary of the article titled Steering into the Skid – Arbitraging human and artificial intelligences to augment the design process from 2020 by Geoff Kimm and Mark Burry, presented at the 40th Annual Conference of The Association for Computer Aided Design in Architecture and published in their proceedings Volume 1: Technical papers, keynote conversations.  Since we are investigating the futu...

Summary of the article titled Smart innovative cities: The impact of smart city policies on urban innovation from 2018 by Andrea Caragliu and Chiara F. Del Bo, published in the Technological Forecasting & Social Change journal.  Since we are investigating the future of cities, I thought it would be interesting to see whether smart city initiatives increase the likelihood of innovation in...

Interview with Gavin Cotterill, consulting director of the Cohesive Group's Asia Pacific Digital Practice and co-chair of the Smart Cities Council Digital Twin Task group. We talk about his vision for the future of cities, the smart cities and digital twins, innovation, and many more.  As a Consulting Director within the Asia Pacific Digital practice, Gavin Cotterill helps large private infra...

Summary of the article titled Resilient urban planning: major principles and criteria from 2014 by Ayyoob Sharifi and Yoshiki Yamagata presented at the 6thInternational Conference on Applied Energy, and then published in Energy Procedia.  Since we are investigating the future of cities, I thought it would be interesting to see the implications of the resilience concept for the sustainability...

Summary of the article titled Smart communities initiatives from 2004 by Helena Lindskog presented at the 3rd ISOneWorld Conference, 2004.  Since we are investigating the future of cities, I thought it would be interesting to see different smart community approaches. This article compares these different approaches and presents how the co-operation between countries, regions and smart communi...

Interview with Dr Tamás Mezős, architect, engineer, architectural historian, among others. We will talk about his vision for the future of cities, building archaeology, history of cities, and many more. Dr Tamás Mezős graduated as a civil engineer and an architect in Budapest and since then has collected more qualifications than one could count. Tamás specifically focuses on architectural and monu...

Summary of the article titled Towards intelligently sustainable cities? – From intelligent and knowledge city programmes to the achievement of urban sustainability from 2013 by Vittorio Gargiulo Morelli, Margot Weijnen, Ellen Van Bueren, Ivo Wenzler, Marke de Reuver, and Luca Salvati, published in the Journal of Land Use, Mobility and Environment.  Since we are investigating the future of cit...

Summary of the article titled Citizen-centred big data analysis-driven governance intelligence framework for smart cities from 2018 by Jingrui Ju, Luning Liu, and Yuqiang Feng, published in the Telecommunications Policy journal.  Since we are investigating the future of cities, I thought it would be interesting to see an investigation into citizen-centred big data with data-to-decision resear...

Interview with Dr Eva Kereszty, doctor, teacher and forensic medical expert, among others. We talk about her vision for the future of cities, urban services, holistic thinking, expanded disability meaning, and many more.  Dr Eva Kereszty graduated from Semmelweis University with forensic medicine and insurance medicine and from Eötvös Loránd University of Budapest with administrative law spec...

Summary of the article titled Measuring urban sustainability: the potential and pitfalls of city rankings from 2012 by Phil McManus, published in the Australian Geographer journal.  Since we are investigating the future of cities, I thought it would be interesting to see an investigation into Sydney’s sustainability. This article discusses how Sydney could become more sustainable and identifi...

Summary of the article titled Theoretical underpinnings of regenerative sustainability from 2015 by John Robinson and Raymond Cole, published in the Building Research & Information journal.  Since we are investigating the future of cities, I thought it would be interesting to see the difference between regenerative sustainability and regenerative development and design. This article discu...

Interview with Johan Tijssen, the director of HempBlock Australia. We will talk about his vision for the future of cities, the city itself, urban reevaluation, and many more.  Originating from Holland, multi-lingual Johan Tijssen is a key figure in the development of the hemp building industry in Australia. He has developed certification, manuals and training programs to meet the growing inte...

Summary of the article titled Smart cities concept and Challenges – Bases for the assessment of smart city projects from 2016 by Andres Monzon, published at the International Conference on Smart Cities and Green ICT Systems.  Since we are investigating the future of cities, I thought it would be interesting to see a smart city assessment tool with city challenges and their available possibili...

Summary of the article titled The network state from 2021 by Balaji Srinivasan, usually known as Balaji, published on the 1729 website.  Since we are investigating the future of cities, I thought it would be interesting to see a possible future state. This article introduces the network state, what it means and how one can be started. You can find the article through this link . You can find...

Interview with Lilly Ryan, lead security specialist at Thoughtworks. We talk about her vision for the future of cities, safety and security, public and private spaces, the ghost in the machine, and many more. Lilly Ryan is a lead security specialist at Thoughtworks, and also serves on the board of Digital Rights Watch. Lilly has delivered presentations across the globe on web application security,...

Summary of the article titled Urban Eutopia vs smart city from 2015 by Marina Montuori, published in the Festival Architettura Magazine.  Since we are investigating the future of cities, I thought it would be interesting to see specific design actions based on the use of reversible, low-tech and low-impact building systems of urban regeneration. This article introduces integrated procedures t...

Summary of the article titled Conceptualising smart city with dimensions of technology, people and institutions from 2011 by Taewoo Nam and Theresa Prado, published at the 12th Annual International Conference on Digital Government Research.  Since we are investigating the future of cities, I thought it would be interesting to see their collected core factors for establishing a smart city base...

Interview with Gala Camacho Ferrari, data scientist and director at Diagonal Works. We talk about her vision for the future of cities, steward ownership, responsible technologies, collaboration, and many more.  Gala is a mathematician and programmer, with a background in education, optimisation and all-things data. She is a Data Scientist and Director at Diagonal, where she is responsible for...

Summary of the article titled Smart city and horizon – beyond every hypocrisy from 2015 by Paola Scala, published in the Festival Architettura Magazine.  Since we are investigating the future of cities, I thought it would be interesting to see real opportunities represented by smart city as the theme of architectural research more aware of its role and more accepting its contemporary challeng...

Summary of the article titled An adaptive learning process for developing and applying sustainability indicators with local communities from 2005 by Mark Reed, Evan Fraser, and Andrew J. Dougill, published in the Ecological Economics journal by Science Direct.  Since we are investigating the future of cities, I thought it would be interesting to see an investigation into sustainability measur...