What is The Future for Cities?

"Responsible governance requires you to make decisions that have a long term input - a long term positive impact." Are you interested in the governments’ role for the future of cities? What do you think about urban retrofitting? How can we encourage our politicians to think long term? Interview with Harriet Shing, MP for the Eastern Victoria Region. Minister for Housing and Building, Pre...

Are you interested in the governments’ role for the future of cities? What do you think about urban retrofitting? How can we encourage our politicians to think long term? Trailer for episode 394 - interview with Harriet Shing, MP for the Eastern Victoria Region. Minister for Housing and Building, Precincts and Development Victoria, and Suburban Rail Loop. We will talk about her vision for the futu...

Are you interested in the comparison of urban development and retrofit? Our debate today works with the article titled The economics of adaptive reuse – Comparative cost analysis of revitalization vs demolition and construction at Radex Park Marywilska from 2025, by Janusz Sobieraj, Marcos Fernandez, and Dominik Metelski, published in MDPI Buildings journal. This is a great preparation to our next...

Are you interested in the governments’ role for the future of cities? What do you think about urban retrofitting? How can we encourage our politicians to think long term? Trailer for episode 394 - interview with Harriet Shing, MP for the Eastern Victoria Region. Minister for Housing and Building, Precincts and Development Victoria, and Suburban Rail Loop. We will talk about her vision for the futu...

Are you interested in the governments’ role for the future of cities? What do you think about urban retrofitting? How can we encourage our politicians to think long term? Trailer for episode 394 - interview with Harriet Shing, MP for the Eastern Victoria Region. Minister for Housing and Building, Precincts and Development Victoria, and Suburban Rail Loop. We will talk about her vision for the futu...

"With the knowledge that we create we will find solutions to make cities more liveable." Are you interested in improving urban asset management? What do you think about the urban heat island effect? How can we empower people to work towards a better future instead of cowering with fear in the corner? Interview with Sebastian Pfautsch, Professor of Urban Management and Planning at Western...

Are you interested in improving urban asset management? What do you think about the urban heat island effect? How can we empower people to work towards a better future instead of cowering with fear in the corner? Trailer for episode 392 - interview with Sebastian Pfautsch, Professor of Urban Management and Planning at Western Sydney University and President of Australasian Green Infrastructure Net...

Are you interested in solutions for the urban heat island effect? Our summary today works with 5 articles and reports, titled Spatiotemporal variation of intra-urban heat and heatwaves across Greater Sydney, Australia, Mapping summer microclimates, Despicable urban places, Climate-smart playgrounds, and the Next generation cool-green car park concept for urban heat resilience co-authored by Sebast...

Are you interested in improving urban asset management? What do you think about the urban heat island effect? How can we empower people to work towards a better future instead of cowering with fear in the corner? Trailer for episode 392 - interview with Sebastian Pfautsch, Professor of Urban Management and Planning at Western Sydney University and President of Australasian Green Infrastructure Net...

Are you interested in improving urban asset management? What do you think about the urban heat island effect? How can we empower people to work towards a better future instead of cowering with fear in the corner? Trailer for episode 392 - interview with Sebastian Pfautsch, Professor of Urban Management and Planning at Western Sydney University and President of Australasian Green Infrastructure Net...

"Natural selectin is innovation ... that is when new things are invented in biology. The difference with humans is we have culture which makes us able to make innovations much faster." Are you interested in new forms of government? What do you think about betting markets – can they help our governance? How can we ensure the continuation of our cherished values? Interview with Robin Hanso...

Are you interested in new forms of government? What do you think about betting markets – can they help our governance? How can we ensure the continuation of our cherished values? Trailer for episode 390 - interview with Robin Hanson, American economist and author. We will talk about his vision for the future of cities, cultural evolution, adaptability, innovation, and many more. Find out more in t...

Are you interested in a governing system based on betting? Our debate today works with the article titled Shall we vote on values, but bet on beliefs? from 2000, by Robin Hanson. This is a great preparation to our next interview with Robin Hanson in episode 390 talking about the opportunities in the betting markets for governance. Since we are investigating the future of cities, I thought it would...

Are you interested in new forms of government? What do you think about betting markets – can they help our governance? How can we ensure the continuation of our cherished values? Trailer for episode 390 - interview with Robin Hanson, American economist and author. We will talk about his vision for the future of cities, cultural evolution, adaptability, innovation, and many more. Find out more in t...

Are you interested in new forms of government? What do you think about betting markets – can they help our governance? How can we ensure the continuation of our cherished values? Trailer for episode 390 - interview with Robin Hanson, American economist and author. We will talk about his vision for the future of cities, cultural evolution, adaptability, innovation, and many more. Find out more in t...

Are you interested in liveability as choices? What do you think about cultural evolution? How can we create a community of changemakers? Interview with Maurice Berger and Raquel Medrano Clemente, co-founders of Liveable Cities Collective. We will talk about their vision for the future of cities, liveability, cultural evolution, human connection, and many more. Maurice Berger is the co-founder of L...

Are you interested in liveability as choices? What do you think about cultural evolution? How can we create a community of changemakers? Trailer for episode 388 - interview with Maurice Berger and Raquel Medrano Clemente, co-founders of Liveable Cities Collective. We will talk about their vision for the future of cities, liveability, cultural evolution, human connection, and many more. Find out mo...

Today would be a research episode, but since it is 2025 Christmas time, I want to just wish you all relaxing holidays with or without celebrating Christmas, Merry Christmas if you do celebrate it, and a very Happy New Year! We will have many interesting topics to discover and further discuss in 2026. I am already preparing those episodes and I am very excited about what will come! First, this epis...

Are you interested in liveability as choices? What do you think about cultural evolution? How can we create a community of changemakers? Trailer for episode 388 - interview with Maurice Berger and Raquel Medrano Clemente, co-founders of Liveable Cities Collective. We will talk about their vision for the future of cities, liveability, cultural evolution, human connection, and many more. Find out mo...

Are you interested in liveability as choices? What do you think about cultural evolution? How can we create a community of changemakers? Trailer for episode 388 - interview with Maurice Berger and Raquel Medrano Clemente, co-founders of Liveable Cities Collective. We will talk about their vision for the future of cities, liveability, cultural evolution, human connection, and many more. Find out mo...

Are you interested in liveability as choices? What do you think about cultural evolution? How can we create a community of changemakers? Trailer for episode 388 - interview with Maurice Berger and Raquel Medrano Clemente, co-founders of Liveable Cities Collective. We will talk about their vision for the future of cities, liveability, cultural evolution, human connection, and many more. Find out mo...

"My take on the future of cities that it's not the physical part that needs innovation ... what we hasn't figured out in the governance part." Are you interested in service-based governance? What do you think about governance innovation? How can we create more autonomous cities? Interview with Niklas Anzinger, Founder & CEO of Infinita City, General Partner of Infinita VC. We...

Are you interested in service-based governance? What do you think about governance innovation? How can we create more autonomous cities? Trailer for episode 386 - interview with Niklas Anzinger, Founder & CEO of Infinita City, General Partner of Infinita VC. We will talk about his vision for the future of cities, difference between governance and government, autonomous cities, people voting wi...

Are you interested in new forms of governance? Debate of the article titled The Honduran ZEDE Law, from ideation to action from 2021, by Jeffrey Mason, Carl Peterson, and Daniela Ivette Cano, published in the Journal of Special Jurisdictions. This is a great preparation to our next interview with Niklas Anzinger in episode 386 talking about the opportunities in the Prospera Honduras governance exp...

Are you interested in service-based governance? What do you think about governance innovation? How can we create more autonomous cities? Trailer for episode 386 - interview with Niklas Anzinger, Founder & CEO of Infinita City, General Partner of Infinita VC. We will talk about his vision for the future of cities, difference between governance and government, autonomous cities, people voting wi...