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What is The Future for Cities?
WTF for Cities? is a platform to introduce and connect people who are actively and consciously working on the future of cities and to introduce research about the future of cities.
Episodes
- What is The Future for Cities?
AI as the ability to analyse data quicker - Brett Ferrin (364I trailer 1)
Are you interested in resilience as bouncing forward? What do you think about city sandboxing? How can we increase our adaptive capacity as individuals…
- What is The Future for Cities?
362I_Sam Kernaghan, Director for the Resilience Program at the Committee for Sydney
"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…
- What is The Future for Cities?
Cities as testing grounds for different solutions - Sam Kernaghan (362I trailer 3)
Are you interested in resilience as bouncing forward? What do you think about city sandboxing? How can we increase our adaptive capacity as individuals…
- What is The Future for Cities?
361R_Resilience and the Sustainable Development Goals: a scrutiny of urban strategies in the 100 Resilient Cities initiative (research debate)
Are you interested in resilience as bouncing forward? Debate of the article titled Resilience and the Sustainable Development Goals: a scrutiny of urban…
- What is The Future for Cities?
Resilience as bouncing forward instead of backwards - Sam Kernaghan (362I trailer 2)
Are you interested in resilience as bouncing forward? What do you think about city sandboxing? How can we increase our adaptive capacity as individuals…
- What is The Future for Cities?
How to inform decision-making with data - Sam Kernaghan (362I trailer 1)
Are you interested in resilience as bouncing forward? What do you think about city sandboxing? How can we increase our adaptive capacity as individuals…
- What is The Future for Cities?
360_Residuality Theory, antifragility, resilience and complex systems - Barry O'Reilly
"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…
- What is The Future for Cities?
Antifragility, criticality and resilience with Residuality Theory - Barry O'Reilly (360I trailer 3)
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…
- What is The Future for Cities?
359R_Residuality Theory (research summary)
Are you interested in how to create antifragile systems? Summary of the articles titled An introduction to Residuality Theory: Software design heuritics for…
- What is The Future for Cities?
Smartness as adaptation instead of marketing slogan - Barry O'Reilly (360I trailer 2)
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…
- What is The Future for Cities?
Residuality Theory for the future of cities - Barry O'Reilly (360I trailer 1)
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…
What is The Future for Cities?358B_Looking ahead - What’s in the future for "What is The Future for Cities?" Podcast?
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…
What is The Future for Cities?357B_A year in urban futures: Reflecting on 101 episodes of "What is The Future for Cities?" Podcast
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…
- What is The Future for Cities?
356I_Allan Savory, President at Savory Institute
"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…
- What is The Future for Cities?
355R_The Foundations of Holistic Management (research summary)
Are you interested in holistic resource management? Summary of the book chapter titled The Foundations of Holistic Management from 2023, part of the Holistic…
- What is The Future for Cities?
356I_Trailer_Allan Savory, President at Savory Institute
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?…
- What is The Future for Cities?
353R_Urban mobility scenarios until the 2030s (research summary)
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…
- What is The Future for Cities?
354I_Andrew J. Cary, CEO and Co-Founder of SNAAP Transportation
"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…
- What is The Future for Cities?
354I_Trailer_Andrew J. Cary, CEO and Co-Founder of SNAAP Transportation
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…
- What is The Future for Cities?
352I_Petra Hurtado, Chief Foresight and Knowledge Officer at the American Planning Association
"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…
- What is The Future for Cities?
351R_2025 Trend reports for planners (research summary)
Are you interested in the urban trends on 3 different time scales? Summary of the report titled 2025 Trend reports for planners from 2025, by Petra Hurtado…
- What is The Future for Cities?
352I_Trailer_Petra Hurtado, Chief Foresight and Knowledge Officer at the American Planning Association
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…
- What is The Future for Cities?
350P_Abundant energy, the future of jobs, regulation and demand - Panel on the urban energy matrix with Alan Pears, Adam Dorr, Ramez Naam ,
Are you interested in the urban energy matrix? What do you think is how our cities can change with abundant energy? How can we generate the right energy from…
- What is The Future for Cities?
Learning from the past for a better future - Mark Nelson (350P trailer 4)
Are you interested in the urban energy matrix? What do you think is how our cities can change with abundant energy? How can we generate the right energy from…
- What is The Future for Cities?
Intelligence as a service in a physical word - Ramez Naam (350P trailer 3)
Are you interested in the urban energy matrix? What do you think is how our cities can change with abundant energy? How can we generate the right energy from…
- What is The Future for Cities?
349R_Superabundant energy – What will we do with it? (research summary)
Are you interested in the effects of superabundant energy? Summary of the article titled Superabundant energy – What will we do with it? from 2022, by Austin…
- What is The Future for Cities?
Planning for the future without shackling ourselves to the past - Adam Dorr (350P trailer 2)
Are you interested in the urban energy matrix? What do you think is how our cities can change with abundant energy? How can we generate the right energy from…
- What is The Future for Cities?
Cost vs value for long-term investments - Alan Pears (350P trailer 1)
Are you interested in the urban energy matrix? What do you think is how our cities can change with abundant energy? How can we generate the right energy from…
- What is The Future for Cities?
348I_Nicholas Lalla, urbanist and author of the book Reinventing The Heart Land
"Are you engaging the community to build solutions to their problems to build the culture of accountability?"Are you interested in the economic powers of…
- What is The Future for Cities?
347R_The economy forward framework: How midsized cities can achieve inclusive growth in the knowledge economy (research summary)
Are you interested in mid-sized cities and their economic contributions? Summary of the article titled The economy forward framework: How midsized cities can…
- What is The Future for Cities?
348I_Trailer_Nicholas Lalla, urbanist and author of the book Reinventing The Heart Land
Are you interested in the economic powers of mid-sized cities? What do you think about cities as urban laboratories? How can we build a culture of…
- What is The Future for Cities?
346I_Dr Mina Sartipi, founding director of the Center for Urban Informatics and Progress (CUIP) and Guerry Professor at the University of Tennessee Chattanooga (UTC)
"Smart City should be proactive. That before anything [bad] happens would identify areas that need more attention."Are you interested in the proactive nature…
- What is The Future for Cities?
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 (research summary)
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’…
- What is The Future for Cities?
346I_Trailer_Dr Mina Sartipi, founding director of the Center for Urban Informatics and Progress (CUIP) and Guerry Professor at the University of Tennessee Chattanooga (UTC)
Are you interested in the proactive nature of smart cities? What do you think about the need for infrastructure to create adaptability? How can we utilise…
- What is The Future for Cities?
344I_Mark Coates, Vice President of Infrastructure Policy Advancement at Bentley Systems
"We've got to start making projects shovel-worthy, not shovel-ready."Are you interested in digital transformation? What do you think about the phrase: “we’ve…
- What is The Future for Cities?
343R_Creating sponge cities to tackle surface water flooding (research summary)
Are you interested in the concept of sponge cities? Summary of the white paper titled Creating sponge cities to tackle surface water flooding from 2025, by…
- What is The Future for Cities?
344I_Trailer_Mark Coates, Vice President of Infrastructure Policy Advancement at Bentley Systems
Are you interested in digital transformation? What do you think about the phrase: “we’ve got to start making projects shovel-worthy instead of shovel-ready”?…
- What is The Future for Cities?
342_Keller Easterling, an architect, writer, and the Enid Storm Dwyer Professor of Architecture at Yale University
"In some ways, maybe what we're all doing now is separations with a spatial apparatus."Are you interested in spatial language? What do you think about the ever…
- What is The Future for Cities?
341R_Global urban structure growth shows a profound shift from spreading out to building up (research summary)
Are you interested in urban expansion shifts across 3 decades? Summary of the article titled Global urban structure growth shows a profound shift from…
- What is The Future for Cities?
342_Trailer_Keller Easterling, an architect, writer, and the Enid Storm Dwyer Professor of Architecture at Yale University
Are you interested in spatial language? What do you think about the ever present urbanism concept? How can we leverage space as an opportunity? Interview with…
- What is The Future for Cities?
340I_Aaron Stupple, physician and author of The Sovereign Child, and Logan Chipkin, president of Conjecture Institute and junior author of The Sovereign Child
Are you interested in how empowered children can change the future of cities? What do you think about the Taking Children Seriously approach? How can we bring…
- What is The Future for Cities?
339R_The Sovereign Child: A Radically Noncoercive Approach to Parenting (research summary)
Are you interested in bringing up the next generation as sovereign individuals for better urban futures? Summary of the book titled The Sovereign Child: A…
- What is The Future for Cities?
340I_Trailer_Aaron Stupple, physician and author of The Sovereign Child, and Logan Chipkin, president of Conjecture Institute and junior author of The Sovereign Child
Are you interested in how empowered children can change the future of cities? What do you think about the Taking Children Seriously approach? How can we bring…
- What is The Future for Cities?
338I_Alison Watson, Founder and Chief Executive of Class Of Your Own
"The future of cities will be delivered by that 8-year old. Because that 8-year old is soon 18 and then 28."Are you interested in involving the next generation…
- What is The Future for Cities?
337R_Child-friendly cities and communities: opportunities and challenges (research summary)
Are you interested in the concept of child-friendly cities? Our summary today works with the article titled Child-friendly cities and communities…
- What is The Future for Cities?
338I_Trailer_Alison Watson, Founder and Chief Executive of Class Of Your Own
Are you interested in involving the next generation into the building industry? What do you think about the knowledge and behaviour shortage? How can we…
- What is The Future for Cities?
336I_Jon Mills, Director at Urbis
"We don't have to go back to business-as-usual [approaches] just because that's how we did it 20 years ago. That's not what we have to do now."Are you…
- What is The Future for Cities?
335R_A framework for exploring futures of complex urban energy systems (research summary)
Are you interested in the energy transformation and its effects on cities?Summary of the article titled A framework for exploring futures of complex urban…
- What is The Future for Cities?
336I_Trailer_Jon Mills, Director at Urbis
Are you interested in urban evolution? What do you think about the city as a producer instead of consumer? How can we investigate unintended consequences of…
- What is The Future for Cities?
334I_James Mant, CEO of Spero AI
"[Cities] are part of the solution. They shouldn't be part of the problem."Are you interested in design and placemaking as creating the city? What do you think…
- What is The Future for Cities?
333R_Place and Place-making in cities: A global perspective (research summary)
Are you interested in place and place-making? Summary of the article titled Place and Place-making in cities: A global perspective from 2010, by John…
- What is The Future for Cities?
334I_Trailer_James Mant, CEO of Spero AI
Are you interested in design and placemaking as creating the city? What do you think about changing our behaviour for better urban futures? How can we learn…
- What is The Future for Cities?
332I_Kirsty Braybon, principal of Braybon Advisory and Nuclear Law Lecturer at the University of Adelaide
"[Resilience, sustainability and sovereignty] is building economies in cities and communities that have longevity."Are you interested in nuclear power and its…
- What is The Future for Cities?
331R_Investigating the potential of nuclear energy in achieving a carbon-free energy future
Are you interested in nuclear energy’s role in a carbon-free future? Our summary today works with the article titled Investigating the potential of nuclear…
- What is The Future for Cities?
332I_Trailer_Kirsty Braybon, Principal of Braybon Advisory and Nuclear Law Lecturer at the University of Adelaide
Are you interested in nuclear power and its effects on the economy? What do you think about economic longevity as resilience? How can we balance regulation and…
- What is The Future for Cities?
330I_Thomas W. Sanchez, Professor of Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning
"There seems to be an innate optimism that you have to have as a planner. Why else would you come to a profession where you're trying to look forward?"Are you…
- What is The Future for Cities?
329R_Artificial intelligence and the local government: A five-decade scientometric analysis on the evolution, state-of-the-art, and emerging trends (research summary)
Our summary today works with the article titled Artificial intelligence and the local government: A five-decade scientometric analysis on the evolution…
- What is The Future for Cities?
330I_Trailer_Thomas W. Sanchez, Professor of Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning
Are you interested in the innate optimism planners have? What do you think about language as technology? How can we learn from the past for better urban…
- What is The Future for Cities?
328I_Howard Bloom, author and founder of the Howard Bloom Institute
"So that audacity to reach for the skies has been built into us ever since life reached the land."Are you interested in technological innovation like writing?…
- What is The Future for Cities?
327R_Cities through the ages: One thing or many? (research summary)
Are you interested in urban evolution across time? Our summary today works with the article titled Cities through the ages: One thing or many? from 2019, by…