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374I_Manfred Schrenk, Director of Competence Center of Urban and Regional Planning
Check out the episode: Check out the trailer: “Our big challenge but big chance is to adopt and develop the [already] built structures.” Are you interested in affordable housing? What do you think about innovation in mobility? How can we create utilise the already existing city fabric for better urban futures? Interview with Manfred Schrenk,…
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Unpacking urban innovation: 5+1 takeaways from experiments and imagination
This week on the What is The Future for Cities? Podcast investigated urban experiments and imagination. Episode 371R offered a debate summarising Federico Caprotti and Robert Cowley‘s 2016 paper Interrogating urban experiments, published in the Urban Geography journal, highlighting the need for critical scrutiny of a popular concept. Then, episode 372I featured an interview with…
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Unpacking AI’s role in the future of urban planning
This week’s episodes of the What is the future for cities? podcast have given us much to consider about artificial intelligence in city planning. Episode 367 presented a debate on the 2025 paper by Haishan Xia and colleagues, titled “The fundamental issues and development trends of AI-driven transformations in urban transit and urban space“. This…
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Lessons on balancing tech and safety for tomorrow’s urban life
What does the future hold for our cities when it comes to traffic safety and smarter transport? This week on the What is The Future for Cities? podcast, we had two episodes that offered fresh perspectives on these questions. Episode 363R presented a debate on the 2024 research paper by Mohamed Elassy, Mohammed Al-Hattab, Maen…
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Reflecting on a year of urban futures and charting the path ahead with ‘What is The Future for Cities?’ podcast
As we mark another milestone in the exploration of urban landscapes, the What is The Future for Cities? podcast offers a compelling lens through which to view both the recent past and the horizons ahead. Hosted with passion and insight, the podcast has now reached its fourth birthday, celebrating the last year’s 101 episodes that…
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How superabundant energy could reshape cities: Reflections on abundance and innovation
This week on the What is the future for cities? podcast, two episodes examined energy’s role in urban evolution. Tuesday’s research episode (349R) summarised the 2022 article “Superabundant energy – What will we do with it?” by Austin Vernon and Eli Dourado, envisioning a world where energy is too cheap to meter, enabling breakthroughs in…
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From knowledge economies to bold transitions: Five takeaways on mid-sized urban futures
This week on the What is the future for cities? podcast, two episodes examined how mid-sized cities can harness economic shifts for stronger futures. Tuesday’s research episode summarised the 2021 article “The economy forward framework: How midsized cities can achieve inclusive growth in the knowledge economy” by Richard Florida, Ross DeVol, Cordell Carter, Jennifer Hankins,…
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345R_What do people want in a smart city? Exploring the stakeholders’ opinions, priorities, and perceived barriers in a medium-sized city in the United States
Check out the episode: You can find the transcripts through this link. Are you interested in stakeholder opinions for smart cities? Summary of the article titled What do people want in a smart city? Exploring the stakeholders’ opinions, priorities, and perceived barriers in a medium-sized city in the United States from 2021, by Cristina Del-Real,…
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How parenting shapes the cities of tomorrow – What we learned from The Sovereign Child, Aaron Stupple and Logan Chipkin
This week, What is The Future for Cities? podcast offered a thought-provoking exploration of how parenting can influence urban futures. Episode 339 summarised The Sovereign Child: A Radically Noncoercive Approach to Parenting by Aaron Stupple and Logan Chipkin, while episode 340 featured an interview with the authors. Drawing on the philosophies of Karl Popper and…
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280I_Hudson Worsley, co-founder and director of Presync
Check out the episode: Check out the trailer: “At the theoretical level, the discipline of resilience is very human-centric, and I think the discipline of sustainability is more nature-centric.” Are you interested in the difference between sustainability and resilience professionals? What will you answer to your grandkids when they ask what you did against climate…
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