Category: Weekly reflection
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Quantum Cities? A Week with Chiara Marletto’s Big Ideas
This week, What is The Future for Cities? Podcast joined Podcasthon 2025, a global initiative supporting charities – we chose Chiara Marletto‘s quantum gravity experiments which can be supported through Wolfson College at the University of Oxford. Thus, we explored the intersection of physics and urban evolution through two compelling episodes. Episode 307 delves into…
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From walls to wallets: How embodied carbon’s changing our cities
This week on What is The Future for Cities? Podcast, we’ve investigated embodied carbon with episodes 305 and 306 with Tom Petty from Carbon Trace. It’s the emissions hiding in your home’s walls, not your light bill, and it’s a bigger deal than I thought. What Even Is Embodied Carbon? So, embodied carbon’s the pollution…
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AI’s Running Cities—Are We Steering or Just Along for the Ride?
Week in Review: Agentic AI and Nick Bray on Who Runs the Future This week’s What is The Future for Cities? Podcast episodes—303 and 304—threw us into the deep end of AI’s urban takeover. From agentic AI acting on its own to Nick Bray’s call for human control, it’s been a ride. Here’s what we…
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