What is The Future for Cities?

Are you interested in place branding? What do you think about participating in the civic brand at your place? How can we involve the next generation to create urban futures? Trailer for episode 366 - interview with Ryan Short, author of ‘The Civic Brand: The Power & Responsibility of Place’ and co-founder of CivicBrand. We will talk about his vision for the future of cities, place branding, ch...

"We have an obligation ... to be aware of our surroundings, of the impact we have ... and to keep us all safe." Are you interested in traffic safety? What do you think about the government's role in enhancing urban road safety? How can we bring up the next generation to create better future for everyone? Interview with Brett Ferrin, VP of Sales for North America at Traffic Logix . We...

Are you interested in resilience as bouncing forward? What do you think about city sandboxing? How can we increase our adaptive capacity as individuals, communities and cities? Trailer for episode 364 - interview with Sam Kernaghan, Director for the Resilience Program at the Committee for Sydney. We will talk about his vision for the future of cities, data and decision-making, resilience, experime...

Are you interested in urban traffic safety and its effects on urban planning? Debate of the article titled Intelligent transportation systems for sustainable smart cities from 2024, by Mohamed Elassy, Mohammed Al-Hattab, Maen Takruri, and Sufian Badawi, published in the Transportation Engineering journal. This is a great preparation to our next interview with Brett Ferrin in episode 364 talking ab...

Are you interested in resilience as bouncing forward? What do you think about city sandboxing? How can we increase our adaptive capacity as individuals, communities and cities? Trailer for episode 364 - interview with Sam Kernaghan, Director for the Resilience Program at the Committee for Sydney. We will talk about his vision for the future of cities, data and decision-making, resilience, experime...

Are you interested in resilience as bouncing forward? What do you think about city sandboxing? How can we increase our adaptive capacity as individuals, communities and cities? Trailer for episode 364 - interview with Sam Kernaghan, Director for the Resilience Program at the Committee for Sydney. We will talk about his vision for the future of cities, data and decision-making, resilience, experime...

"Resilience is not going back to the original levels... It's not possible. It's actually about going forward." Are you interested in resilience as bouncing forward? What do you think about city sandboxing? How can we increase our adaptive capacity as individuals, communities and cities? Interview with Sam Kernaghan, Director for the Resilience Program at the Committee for Sydney....

Are you interested in resilience as bouncing forward? What do you think about city sandboxing? How can we increase our adaptive capacity as individuals, communities and cities? Trailer for episode 362 - interview with Sam Kernaghan, Director for the Resilience Program at the Committee for Sydney. We will talk about his vision for the future of cities, data and decision-making, resilience, experime...

Are you interested in resilience as bouncing forward? Debate of the article titled Resilience and the Sustainable Development Goals: a scrutiny of urban strategies in the 100 Resilient Cities initiative from 2024, by Elisa Kochskämper, Lisa-Maria Glass, Wolfgang Haupt, Shirin Malekpour and Jarrod Grainger-Brown, published in the Journal of Environmental Planning and Management. This is a great pre...

Are you interested in resilience as bouncing forward? What do you think about city sandboxing? How can we increase our adaptive capacity as individuals, communities and cities? Trailer for episode 362 - interview with Sam Kernaghan, Director for the Resilience Program at the Committee for Sydney. We will talk about his vision for the future of cities, data and decision-making, resilience, experime...

Are you interested in resilience as bouncing forward? What do you think about city sandboxing? How can we increase our adaptive capacity as individuals, communities and cities? Trailer for episode 362 - interview with Sam Kernaghan, Director for the Resilience Program at the Committee for Sydney. We will talk about his vision for the future of cities, data and decision-making, resilience, experime...

"Residuality Theory is the idea that a random simulation of stress is more efficient than precision and prediction in a complex environment." Are you interested in creating antifragile systems? What do you think about the utilisation of residuals? How can we pivot smartness from the marketing to the innovative understanding? Interview with Barry O’Reilly, software architect. This is a sp...

Are you interested in creating antifragile systems? What do you think about the utilisation of residuals? How can we pivot smartness from the marketing to the innovative understanding? Trailer for episode 360 - interview with Barry O’Reilly, software architect. This is a special episode because of Barry’s Residuality Theory which was established for software architecture but I think it can be VERY...

Are you interested in how to create antifragile systems? Summary of the articles titled An introduction to Residuality Theory: Software design heuritics for complex systems and Residuality Theory, random simulation, and attractor networks from 2020 and 2022, by Barry M O’Reilly, presented at International Workshop on Computational Antifragility and Antifragile Engineering. This is a great preparat...

Are you interested in creating antifragile systems? What do you think about the utilisation of residuals? How can we pivot smartness from the marketing to the innovative understanding? Trailer for episode 360 - interview with Barry O’Reilly, software architect. This is a special episode because of Barry’s Residuality Theory which was established for software architecture but I think it can be VERY...

Are you interested in creating antifragile systems? What do you think about the utilisation of residuals? How can we pivot smartness from the marketing to the innovative understanding? Trailer for episode 360 - interview with Barry O’Reilly, software architect. This is a special episode because of Barry’s Residuality Theory which was established for software architecture but I think it can be VERY...

Welcome back to What is The Future for Cities? Podcast! In our last episode , we took a moment to reflect on a year of incredible conversations. Now, with that wisdom in our sails, I want to look forward, to chart the course for what's next on our shared journey. The conversations are only getting deeper. We're going to be exploring some truly fascinating and critical territory. We'll...

Welcome to the 4th birthday episode of What is The Future for Cities? Podcast! As we celebrate another year of "What is The Future for Cities?", it’s a fitting moment to pause and reflect on the incredible journey we've taken together over the last 101 episodes, like the dalmatians. From episode 255 to 356, we’ve traversed a complex and fascinating landscape of urban thought, guided by a diverse c...

"You either address the [root] cause, or in the future must pay the price of violence and suffering the world has never seen before." Are you interested in the future of agriculture? What do you think about holistic contexts for better urban futures? How can we manage our resources better? Interview with Allan Savory, President at Savory Institute. We will talk about his vision for the f...

Are you interested in holistic resource management? Summary of the book chapter titled The Foundations of Holistic Management from 2023, part of the Holistic Management e-book by the Savory Institute. This is a great preparation to our next interview with Allan Savory in episode 356 talking about holistic resource management and contexts for collaboration. Since we are investigating the future of...

Are you interested in the future of agriculture? What do you think about holistic contexts for better urban futures? How can we manage our resources better? Trailer for episode 356 - interview with Allan Savory, President at Savory Institute. We will talk about his vision for the future of cities, agriculture, holistic contexts, regeneration vs sustainability, resource management as the main cause...

"As they say: if we are able to look back 200 years, we should be able to look forward 200 years." Are you interested in new ways to the future of urban mobility? What do you think about the scalability of education? How can we #rise&execute for the better future? Interview with Andrew J. Cary, CEO and Co-Founder of SNAAP Transportation. We will talk about his vision for the future o...

Are you interested in the future of urban mobility? Summary of the article titled Urban mobility scenarios until the 2030s from 2021, by Márk Miskolczi, Dávid Földes, András Munkácsy, and Melinda Jászberényi, published in the Sustainability Cities and Society journal. This is a great preparation to our next interview with Andrew J. Cary in episode 354 talking about urban transportation and its eff...

Are you interested in new ways to the future of urban mobility? What do you think about the scalability of education? How can we #rise&execute for the better future? Interview with Andrew J. Cary, CEO and Co-Founder of SNAAP Transportation. We will talk about his vision for the future of cities, the government’s role, scalability of solutions and education, urban mobility, and many more. Find...

"If we talk about the future, we need to have the future [a.k.a. the next generation] at the table." Are you interested in upcoming urban trends? What do you think about the need for investigating multiple futures in foresight? How can we utilise different timeframes to prepare for the future? Interview with Petra Hurtado, Chief Foresight and Knowledge Officer at the American Planning As...