What is The Future for Cities?

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...

Interview with Amélie Uhrig, a climate change and sustainability advisor and manager. We talk about her vision for the future of cities, sustainability, city as an organism, differences among the names for climate change, and many more. Amélie Uhrig is a Manager at Point Advisory, a sustainability consultancy headquartered in Melbourne. She has over five years of experience in the climate change a...

Summary of the article titled A place-based model for understanding community resilience to natural disasters from 2008 by Susan Cutter, Lindsey Barnes, Melissa Berry, Christopher Burton, Elijah Evans, Eric Tate, and Jennifer Webb, published in the Global Environmental Change journal.  Since we are investigating the future of cities, I thought it would be interesting to see a framework for di...

Summary of the article titled Smartness that matters: Towards a comprehensive and human-centred characterisation of smart cities from 2016 by Alexander Prado Lara, Eduardo Moreira Da Costa, Thiago Zilinscki Furlani, and Tan Yigitcanlar, published in the Journal of Open Innovation: Technology, Market and Complexity.  Since we are investigating the future of cities, I thought it would be intere...

Interview with Dr Rolland Vida, the Head of High Speed Networks Laboratory. We talk about his vision for the future of cities, second and third rate effects of smaller urban changes, the future of education, and many more. Dr. Rolland Vida graduated in Computer Science at Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj, Romania, where he also obtained a BSc degree in European Studies. He obtained his PhD in Compute...

Summary of the article titled Smart Telki – Answering citizen demand in the outskirts of Budapest from 2020 by Bence Majoros, Marcell Molnár, Tamás Sajti, and Rolland Vida, presented at the 2020 IEEE International Smart Cities Conference.  I will interview Rolland Vida in the next episode, number 054I, and this is a great preparation for that interview.  Plus, since we are investigating...

Summary of the article titled Introduction: Innovation and identity in next-generation smart cities from 2018 by Hoon Han and Scott Hawken, published in City, Culture and Society journal.  Since we are investigating the future of cities, I thought it would be interesting to see why it is important to critically consider urban identity and culture as central to the smart city. This article cha...

Interview with Laura Summers, design engineer. We will talk about her vision for the future of cities, urban revitalisation, the fear-FOMO pendulum, and many more.  Laura is a multi-disciplinary designer researching technology ethics and building tools to promote fair machine learning. She's the founder of Debias AI and is the human behind Ethics Litmus Tests, fairXiv, the Melbourne Fair ML r...

Summary of the article titled Towards sustainable urban communities from 2012 by Appu Haapio published in the Environmental Impact Assessment Review journal.  Since we are investigating the future of cities, I thought it would be interesting to see comparison of the internationally well-known sustainability assessment tools, BREEAM Communities, CASBEE for Urban Development, and LEED for Neigh...

Summary of the article titled A multiple-attribute decision making-based approach for smart city rankings design from 2018 by Soledad Escolar, Félix Villanueva, Maria Santofimia, David Villa, Xavier del Toro, and Juan Carlos López published in the Technological Forecasting & Social Change journal.  Since we are investigating the future of cities, I thought it would be interesting to see c...

Interview with Professor Hussein Dia, the Chair of Civil Engineering at Swinburne University of Technology. We will talk about his vision for the future of cities, future urban mobility, city states, and many more.  Hussein Dia is a professor of Future Urban Mobility in the School of Engineering at Swinburne University of Technology, currently serving as the Chair of the Department of Civil a...

Summary of the article titled Coronavirus recovery: public transport is key to avoid repeating old and unsustainable mistakes from 2020 by Hussein Dia published on The Conversation.  I will interview Hussein Dia in the next episode, number 048R, and this is a great preparation for that interview. Plus, since we are investigating the future of cities, I thought it would be interesting to see h...

Summary of the book chapter titled Analysis and comparison of Smart City initiatives from 2016 by Aranzazu Fernández-Vázquez and Ignacio López-Forniés, in the book titled Advances on Mechanics, Design Engineering and Manufacturing, published by Springer. Since we are investigating the future of cities, I thought it would be interesting to see the investigation of smart city initiatives. This chapt...

Interview with Milan Janosov, Ph. D., the Chief Data Scientist at Datapolis and network and data science researcher at the Central European University. We will talk about his vision for the future of cities, network science and complexity research, the different layers of a city, and many more.  With a background in physics and biophysics, Milan earned my PhD in network and data science in 20...

Summary of the article titled Measuring community disaster resilience in the Latvian context: an apply case using a composite indicator approach from 2016 by Maksism Feofilovs and Fancesco Romagnoli presented at the International Scientific Conference “Environmental and Climate Technologies” in Riga, Latvia.  Since we are investigating the future of cities, I thought it would be interesting t...

Summary of the article titled Shifting from sustainability to regeneration from 2007 by Bill Reed 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 sustainability and regeneration in relation to the environment. This article investigates how the designers and stakehold...

Interview with Professor Mark Burry, the founding director or the Smart Cities Research Institute and Professor of Urban Futures at Swinburne University of Technology. We will talk about his vision for the future of cities, urban citizen engagement, collaboration across disciplines, and many more.  Mark Burry is the Founding Director for Swinburne University of Technology’s ‘Smart Cities Rese...

Summary of the article titled A 100 smart cities, a 100 utopias from 2015 by Ayona Datta published in the Dialogues in Human Geography journal.  Since we are investigating the future of cities, I thought it would be interesting to see the smart city application in India as it becomes the site of producing 100 proposed smart cities. This article investigates the technocratic nationalism, and t...

Summary of the article titled Urban sustainability in the information age from 2010 by Manuel Castells published in the City, analysis of urban trends, culture, theory, policy, action journal.  Since we are investigating the future of cities, I thought it would be interesting to see the sustainable city in action and as a personal matter instead of being an abstract utopian ideology. This art...

Interview with Dr Kirsten Day, an architect and lecturer at the University of Melbourne. We will talk about her vision for the future of cities, neuro diversity, quality of places, and many more.  Dr Kirsten Day lectures in Architecture at the University of Melbourne in Architectural, Practice, Applied Design Thinking, Contemporary Architectural Archives, and Thesis Design Studio. She is also...

Summary of the article titled But how bad this smart city from 2015 by Umberto Cao published in the Festival Architettura magazine.  Since we are investigating the future of cities, I thought it would be interesting to see smart city as the efficient city in absolute sense. This article investigates how this efficiency affects the architectural form and quality of the city, possibly creating...

Summary of the commentary article titled Big data, smart cities and city planning from 2013 by Michael Batty published in the Dialogues in Human Geography journal.  Since we are investigating the future of cities, I thought it would be interesting to see sea of available data changes urban areas. This article investigates how the big data shifts the emphasis from longer term strategic plannin...

Interview with Magnus Moglia, associate professor at Swinburne University of Technology. We will talk about his vision for the future of cities, urban complexity, sustainability, urban resilience, and many more.  Magnus Moglia loves data and numbers, so it was not strange that he was drawn to the sciences. In his native Sweden, he studied Physics and Mathematics, graduating from the Royal Ins...

Summary of the article titled Review of sustainability indices and indicators: Towards a new City Sustainability Index from 2012 by Koichiro Mori and Aris Christodoulou published in the Environmental Impact Assessment Review journal.  Since we are investigating the future of cities, I thought it would be interesting to see how the different sustainability indices work and whether a new is nee...

Summary of the article titled Actually existing smart citizens – Expertise and (non)participation in the making of the smart city from 2019 by Taylor Shelton and Thomas Lodato published in the City – analysis of urban trends, culture, theory, policy, action journal.  Since we are investigating the future of cities, I thought it would be interesting to see how smart citizens are or aren’t invo...