Category: Research summary
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041R_A 100 smart cities, a 100 utopias

Listen to the episode: 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…
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041R_transcript_A 100 smart cities, a 100 utopias

Listen to the episode: Welcome to today’s What is The Future For Cities podcast and its Research episode; my name is Fanni, and today I will introduce a research paper by summarising it. The episode really is just a short summary of the original paper, and, in case it is interesting enough, I would encourage…
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040R_Urban sustainability in the information age

Listen to the episode: 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…
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040R_transcript_Urban sustainability in the information age

Listen to the episode: Welcome to today’s What is The Future For Cities podcast and its Research episode; my name is Fanni, and today I will introduce a research paper by summarising it. The episode really is just a short summary of the original paper, and, in case it is interesting enough, I would encourage…
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038R_But how bad this “smart city”!

Listen to the episode: 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…
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038R_transcript_But how bad this “smart city”!

Listen to the episode: Welcome to today’s What is The Future For Cities podcast and its Research episode; my name is Fanni, and today I will introduce a research paper by summarising it. The episode really is just a short summary of the original paper, and, in case it is interesting enough, I would encourage…
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037R_Big data, smart cities and city planning

Listen to the episode: 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…
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037R_transcript_Big data, smart cities and city planning

Listen to the episode: Welcome to today’s What is The Future For Cities podcast and its Research episode; my name is Fanni, and today I will introduce a research paper by summarising it. The episode really is just a short summary of the original paper, and, in case it is interesting enough, I would encourage…
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035R_Review of sustainability indices and indicators: Towards a new City Sustainability Index

Listen to the episode: 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…
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035R_transcript_Review of sustainability indices and indicators: Towards a new City Sustainability Index

Listen to the episode: Welcome to today’s What is The Future For Cities podcast and its Research episode; my name is Fanni, and today I will introduce a research paper by summarising it. The episode really is just a short summary of the original paper, and, in case it is interesting enough, I would encourage…
