Category: Interview
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426I_AJ Perkins, founder, clean energy strategist and award winning author
Check out the episode: Check out the trailer: “Energy is not one of those silos. Energy is the foundation. You cannot fix any of those challenges at scale if you haven’t fixed the energy beneath them.” Are you interested in why energy is the foundation of our challenges and opportunities? What do you think about…
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424I_Ben Wolf, producer and director of Changing Lanes
Check out the episode: Check out the trailer: “[Urban transportation] is not just a quality of life issue – it’s a life and death issue.” Are you interested micromobility? What do you think about induced demand? How can we effectively reduce traffic and reclaim streets for public use? Interview with Ben Wolf, producer and director…
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Cities as fusion reactors: Double the people, more than double the ideas?
“A city isn’t an animal. It’s a star.” That single line from this week’s research debate on Louis Bettencourt’s landmark paper stopped me in my tracks. It perfectly captures the shift in thinking we explored across two very different but deeply connected episodes of What is The Future for Cities? podcast. On Tuesday we unpacked…
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422I_Greg Lindsay, urbanist, futurist and author
Check out the episode: Check out the trailer: “We need to do a better job at building places we love, otherwise we will just discard them.” Are you interested adaptation and reuse? What do you think about the cities as the safest zones for climate? How can we maximise serendipity in cities? Interview with Greg…
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420I_Josh Dorfman, co-founder of Plantd and CEO and host of Supercool podcast
Check out the episode: Check out the trailer: “Just consider the possibility that we don’t have to suffer to solve climate change.” Are you interested in green growth to battle climate change instead of degrowth? What do you think about mayors making the best for their cities, thus, solving climate change? How can we create…
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418I_Zoe Wang, landscape architect and urban designer
Check out the episode: Check out the trailer: “One role designers can play is to make these kind of regenerative choices very beautiful, and easy for people to adopt.” Are you interested in the opportunities within adaptive urban furniture? What do you think about the transition period between the present and future? How can we…
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416I_Raoul Rugamba, founder of Africa in Colors and entrepreneur
Check out the episode: Check out the trailer: “We should rethink how our cities and systems work with culture and arts.” Are you interested in the opportunities within the African continent? What do you think about the difference between arts and culture? How can we utilise arts and business for the better future for cities?…
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414I_Cormac McKay, environmental technologist and policy advisor
Check out the episode: Check out the trailer: “I reckon the whole motor industry is on its lats legs and shared mobility and autonomous vehicles will take over in the next ten years.” Are you interested in autonomous vehicles? What do you think can be the best use of autonomous vehicles? How can we utilise…
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412I_Louis de Jaeger, award-winning filmmaker, author, and landscape designer
Check out the episode: Check out the trailer: “It’s not rocket science to do this. We are closer [to the ideal situation] than we think.” Are you interested in urban food forests? What do you think about regeneration as investment with the highest ROI? How can we get even closer to the ideal future of…
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410I_Casey Handmer, founder of Terraform Industries
Check out the episode: Check out the trailer: “Let’s build a future that’s forward rather than back.” Are you interested in building towards the future instead of backwards? What do you think about the threat of economic decline or stagnation? How can we utilise our evolved knowledge better to overcome the genius of past inventors?…
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