What is The Future for Cities?

Are you interested in the relationship between urban biodiversity and ecosystem services? Debate of the article titled Understanding biodiversity-ecosystem service relationships in urban areas: A comprehensive literature review from 2017, by Nina Schwarz, Marco Moretti, Miguel N. Bugalho, Zoe G. Davies, Dagmar Haase, Jochen Hack, Angela Hof, Yolanda Meleroj, Tristan J. Pett, and Sonja Knapp, publi...

Are you interested in regenerative development? What do you think about healthy living as being more locally connected? How can we become keystone species for regeneration? Trailer for episode 456 - interview with Caroline Howell, CEO and Co-Founder of Canopy. We will talk about her vision for the future of cities, regeneration, sovereignty, technology vs nature, healthy living, humans as keystone...

Are you interested in regenerative development? What do you think about healthy living as being more locally connected? How can we become keystone species for regeneration? Trailer for episode 456 - interview with Caroline Howell, CEO and Co-Founder of Canopy. We will talk about her vision for the future of cities, regeneration, sovereignty, technology vs nature, healthy living, humans as keystone...

“A city can have a perfect transit, the perfect architecture, housing and energy - and still be one supply shock from empty shelves.” Are you interested in making our food chain more resilient? What do you think about our food foot prints? How can we improve the circularity of our food systems? Interview with Kamogelo Thumankwe, founder and CEO of Tsarona. We will talk about her vision for the fut...

Are you interested in making our food chain more resilient? What do you think about our food foot prints? How can we improve the circularity of our food systems? Trailer for episode 454 - interview with Kamogelo Thumankwe, founder and CEO of Tsarona. We will talk about her vision for the future of cities, urban food prints, circularity of food systems, diversity of crops for resilience, and many m...

Are you interested in making our food chain more resilient? Our debate today works with the article titled Does crop diversification lead to climate-related resilience? Improving the theory through insights on practice from 2022, by Ronnie Vernooy, published in the Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems journal. This is a great preparation to our next interview with Kamogelo Thumankwe in episode...

Are you interested in making our food chain more resilient? What do you think about our food foot prints? How can we improve the circularity of our food systems? Trailer for episode 454 - interview with Kamogelo Thumankwe, founder and CEO of Tsarona. We will talk about her vision for the future of cities, urban food prints, circularity of food systems, diversity of crops for resilience, and many m...

Are you interested in making our food chain more resilient? What do you think about our food foot prints? How can we improve the circularity of our food systems? Trailer for episode 454 - interview with Kamogelo Thumankwe, founder and CEO of Tsarona. We will talk about her vision for the future of cities, urban food prints, circularity of food systems, diversity of crops for resilience, and many m...

"We never can abandon freight as long we have demand for products and services… We are the blood vessels for a healthy society, and that, that's very important.” Are you interested in how logistics influences urban planning? What do you think about pilots of collaborative logistics? How can we rethink logistics in regards to resilience? Interview with Ron van Duin, applied research profes...

Are you interested in how logistics influences urban planning? What do you think about pilots of collaborative logistics? How can we rethink logistics in regards to resilience? Trailer for episode 452 - interview with Ron van Duin, applied research professor of Port & City Logistics at Rotterdam University of Applied Sciences and assistant professor at Delft University of Technology, Faculty T...

Are you interested in how urban logistics and urban design are connected? Debate of the article titled Defining the interface between city logistics and urban design: a systematic literature review from 2026, by Jiayu Joslyn Sun, Lóránt Tavasszy, and Ron van Duin, published in the Transportation Research Interdisciplinary Perspectives journal. This is a great preparation to our next interview with...

Are you interested in how logistics influences urban planning? What do you think about pilots of collaborative logistics? How can we rethink logistics in regards to resilience? Trailer for episode 452 - interview with Ron van Duin, applied research professor of Port & City Logistics at Rotterdam University of Applied Sciences and assistant professor at Delft University of Technology, Faculty T...

Are you interested in how logistics influences urban planning? What do you think about pilots of collaborative logistics? How can we rethink logistics in regards to resilience? Trailer for episode 452 - interview with Ron van Duin, applied research professor of Port & City Logistics at Rotterdam University of Applied Sciences and assistant professor at Delft University of Technology, Faculty T...

Are you interested in the future of urban governance? What do you think is the role of AI in urban governance? How can we utilise the localised feedback loops for the better future of cities? This episode is a panel discussion about the future of urban governance. The panellists, Micah Gaudet, Ana Maria Bustamante Duarte, and Balamurugan Soundararaj talk about their vision for the future of cities...

Are you interested in the future of urban governance? What do you think is the role of AI in urban governance? How can we utilise the localised feedback loops for the better future of cities? Trailer with Balamurugan Soundararaj for episode 450 - panel discussion about the future of urban governance. The panellists, Micah Gaudet, Ana Maria Bustamante Duarte, and Balamurugan Soundararaj talk about...

Are you interested in how to utilise digital twins in human-centred urban planning? Debate of the article titled Cities aren’t rocket engines: The maturity of digital twins in human-centred urban planning from 2025, by Lucas van der Meer, Lukas Esterle, Mario Cools, and Martin Loidl, published in the International Journal of Digital Earth. This is a great preparation to our next panel conversation...

Are you interested in the future of urban governance? What do you think is the role of AI in urban governance? How can we utilise the localised feedback loops for the better future of cities? Trailer with Micah Gaudet for episode 450 - panel discussion about the future of urban governance. The panellists, Micah Gaudet, Ana Maria Bustamante Duarte, and Balamurugan Soundararaj talk about their visio...

Are you interested in the future of urban governance? What do you think is the role of AI in urban governance? How can we utilise the localised feedback loops for the better future of cities? Trailer with Micah Gaudet for episode 450 - panel discussion about the future of urban governance. The panellists, Micah Gaudet, Ana Maria Bustamante Duarte, and Balamurugan Soundararaj talk about their visio...

"We're anticipating these massive climate change impacts and incorporating resiliency into our built environment to stand against that." Are you interested in urban forestry? What do you think about the tension between the need for development and green spaces? How can we bring out the best from climate change through climate ruggedisation and green jobs? Interview with Jasen Johns,...

Are you interested in urban forestry? What do you think about the tension between the need for development and green spaces? How can we bring out the best from climate change through climate ruggedisation and green jobs? Trailer for episode 448 - interview with Jasen Johns, urban forester and municipal arborist. We will talk about his vision for the future of cities, urban forestry, ecodistrics, 3...

Are you interested in how to adapt our natural systems to climate change? Debate of the article titled Facilitating adaptive forest management under climate change: A spatially specific synthesis of 125 species for habitat changes and assisted migration over the eastern United States from 2019, by Louis R. Iverson, Anantha M. Prasad, Matthew P. Peters, and Stephen N. Matthews, published in the MDP...

Are you interested in urban forestry? What do you think about the tension between the need for development and green spaces? How can we bring out the best from climate change through climate ruggedisation and green jobs? Trailer for episode 448 - interview with Jasen Johns, urban forester and municipal arborist. We will talk about his vision for the future of cities, urban forestry, ecodistrics, 3...

Are you interested in urban forestry? What do you think about the tension between the need for development and green spaces? How can we bring out the best from climate change through climate ruggedisation and green jobs? Trailer for episode 448 - interview with Jasen Johns, urban forester and municipal arborist. We will talk about his vision for the future of cities, urban forestry, ecodistrics, 3...

"What if every time we built something, the world got better?" Are you interested in regenerative urban design principles? What do you think about the process of creating a vision for a place? How can we improve our implementation of regenerative principles? Interview with Andy Roberts, the Urban Design Director of Planit. We will talk about his vision for the future of cities, regenerat...

Are you interested in regenerative urban design principles? What do you think about the process of creating a vision for a place? How can we improve our implementation of regenerative principles? Trailer for episode 446 - interview with Andy Roberts, the Urban Design Director of Planit. We will talk about his vision for the future of cities, regenerative urban design principles, vision creation, t...