What is The Future for Cities?

Interview with Frans-Anton Vermast, the strategy advisor and international smart city ambassador at Amsterdam Smart City. We will talk about his and their visions for the future of cities, how they approach the definition of smart city, how their projects at Amsterdam Smart City are established, and many more. So let’s start with a proper introduction. Frans-Anton is an expert in searching for the...

Summary of the article title Intelligent cities: Variable geometries of spatial intelligence from 2011 by Nicos Komninos. This article is often referenced as a basic piece in the research about the future of cities and it is one of the early articles highlighting the importance of community intelligence. Plus, Nicos Komninos also talks about how this community intelligence spatially centred in cit...

Summary of the report titled Smart cities - Ranking of European medium-sized cities from 2007 by Rudolf Giffinger, Christian Fertner, Hans Kramar, Robert Kalasek, Nataša Pichler-Milanović, and Evert Meijers. This report is the basis of many smart city initiatives; however, the report itself and what it contains is rarely mentioned. Therefore, I thought it would be useful to introduce it.  You...

Introducing the WTF podcast, the format and the purpose, and myself being the host. Just a short summary of what is coming.  The transcript is available through this link . What wast the most interesting part for you? What questions did arise for you? Let me know on twitter @WTF4Cities! I hope this was an interesting introduction for you and thanks for tuning in. Music by Lesfm from Pixabay

What is the future for cities? Do you want to know more about them? Do you want to know how others think about them? Do you want to be part of conversation? Then this is the right place. What is The Future for Cities? podcast is a platform to introduce and connect people who are actively and consciously working on the future of cities and to introduce research related to the future of cities conce...