What is The Future for Cities?
Episodes
390I_Robin Hanson, American economist and author
31 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
"Natural selectin is innovation ... that is when new things are invented in biology. The difference with humans is we have culture which makes us...
Futarchy - governance based on decision markets - Robin Hanson (390I trailer 3)
30 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Are you interested in new forms of government? What do you think about betting markets – can they help our governance? How can we ensure the continu...
389R_Shall we vote on values, but bet on beliefs? (research debate)
29 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Are you interested in a governing system based on betting? Our debate today works with the article titled Shall we vote on values, but bet on beliefs?...
Why we need adaptability for cultural evolution? Robin Hanson (360I trailer 2)
28 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Are you interested in new forms of government? What do you think about betting markets – can they help our governance? How can we ensure the continu...
Why innovation is crucial for the future of cities - Robin Hanson (390I trailer 1)
27 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Are you interested in new forms of government? What do you think about betting markets – can they help our governance? How can we ensure the continu...
388I_Maurice Berger and Raquel Medrano Clemente, co-founders of Liveable Cities Collective
24 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Are you interested in liveability as choices? What do you think about cultural evolution? How can we create a community of changemakers? Interview wit...
Urban opportunities by changemakers - Maurice Berger and Raquel Medrano Clemente (388I trailer 4)
23 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Are you interested in liveability as choices? What do you think about cultural evolution? How can we create a community of changemakers? Trailer for e...
387C_Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year with better future for cities!
22 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Today would be a research episode, but since it is 2025 Christmas time, I want to just wish you all relaxing holidays with or without celebrating Chri...
Saving character & evolution in balance - Maurice Berger & Raquel Medrano Clemente (388I trailer 3)
21 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Are you interested in liveability as choices? What do you think about cultural evolution? How can we create a community of changemakers? Trailer for e...
Culture evolves like language evolves - Maurice Berger & Raquel Medrano Clemente (388I trailer 2)
20 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Are you interested in liveability as choices? What do you think about cultural evolution? How can we create a community of changemakers? Trailer for e...
Liveability centred around choice - Maurice Berger and Raquel Medrano Clemente (388I trailer 1)
19 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Are you interested in liveability as choices? What do you think about cultural evolution? How can we create a community of changemakers? Trailer for e...
386I_Niklas Anzinger, Founder & CEO of Infinita City, General Partner of Infinita VC
17 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
"My take on the future of cities that it's not the physical part that needs innovation ... what we hasn't figured out in the governance p...
Human nature and innovation - Niklas Anzinger (386I trailer 3)
16 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Are you interested in service-based governance? What do you think about governance innovation? How can we create more autonomous cities? Trailer for e...
385R_The Honduran ZEDE Law, from ideation to action
15 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Are you interested in new forms of governance? Debate of the article titled The Honduran ZEDE Law, from ideation to action from 2021, by Jeffrey Mason...
Governance services form a monopoly or the market - Niklas Anzinger (386I trailer 2)
14 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Are you interested in service-based governance? What do you think about governance innovation? How can we create more autonomous cities? Trailer for e...
Cities as economic actors in competition - Niklas Anzinger (386I trailer 1)
13 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Are you interested in service-based governance? What do you think about governance innovation? How can we create more autonomous cities? Trailer for e...
384I_Rutger de Graaf, Co-Founder and Managing Director of Blue21 Group
10 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
"The water [and floating cities] are an opportunity to break through the past lock-ins [traditional infrastructure]."Are you interested in f...
Why floating cities provide new economic opportunities - Rutger de Graaf (384I trailer 3)
09 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Are you interested in floating cities? What do you think about the symbiosis between floating and coastal cities? How can we enhance affordability wit...
383R_Potential floating urban development for coastal cities (research debate)
08 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Are you interested in floating cities and communities? Debate of the article titled Potential of floating urban development for coastal cities: Analys...
Symbiosis between coastal and floating cities - Rutger de Graaf (384I trailer 2)
07 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Are you interested in floating cities? What do you think about the symbiosis between floating and coastal cities? How can we enhance affordability wit...
Floating cities changing traditional urban approach - Rutger de Graaf (384I trailer 1)
06 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Are you interested in floating cities? What do you think about the symbiosis between floating and coastal cities? How can we enhance affordability wit...
382I_Carolyn Whitzman, Adjunct Professor and Housing Researcher at the University of Toronto School of Cities
03 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
"At its best, cities offer the opportunity to be your best authentic self."Are you interested in thriving historical neighbourhoods to learn...
How to learn from examples to improve places for communities - Carolyn Whitzman (382I trailer 3)
02 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Are you interested in thriving historical neighbourhoods to learn from? What do you think about looking into other people’s homes through the window...
381R_Directions for new urban neighbourhoods: Learning from St. Lawrence (research debate)
01 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Are you interested in creating mixed-housing communities?Debate of the article titled Directions for new urban neighbourhoods: Learning from St. Lawre...
Learning from historical examples for better future for cities - Carolyn Whitzman (382I trailer 2)
30 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Are you interested in thriving historical neighbourhoods to learn from? What do you think about looking into other people’s homes through the window...
Why curiosity is crucial for the future of cities? - Carolyn Whitzman (382I trailer 1)
29 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Are you interested in thriving historical neighbourhoods to learn from? What do you think about looking into other people’s homes through the window...
380I_Adam Miller, founder of MIDAO
26 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
"The biggest opportunity [in cities] is to give back more control over more things to smaller groups of people."Are you interested in decent...
People choosing DAOs and cities based on their preferences - Adam Miller (380I trailer 3)
25 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Are you interested in decentralised autonomous organisations? What do you think about technologies which enhance governance transparency? How can we i...
379R_Decentralized Autonomous Organisations (DAOs) adoption for smart city governance (research debate)
24 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Are you interested in decentralised autonomous organisations, also known as DAOs? Debate of the book chapter titled Decentralized Autonomous Organisat...
Transparency in DAOs with technology - Adam Miller (380I trailer 2)
22 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Are you interested in decentralised autonomous organisations? What do you think about technologies which enhance governance transparency? How can we i...
People with more ownership and control over their lives with DAOs - Adam Miller (380I trailer 1)
22 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Are you interested in decentralised autonomous organisations? What do you think about technologies which enhance governance transparency? How can we i...
378I_Remco Deelstra, Strategic Housing Advisor for the Municipality of Leeuwarden
19 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
"I think the most interesting things happen in the places we don't expect them and the places where it is a bit uncomfortable."Are you i...
Opportunity in changing urban management - Remco Deelstra (378I trailer 3)
18 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Are you interested in the economic importance of mid-sized cities? What do you think about the European Union of Cities? How can governments leave cit...
377R_Developing intermediate cities
17 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Are you interested in the economic potential of mid-sized cities? Debate of the article titled Developing intermediate cities from 2021, by Andrés Ro...
Government's role for positive economic vibes - Remco Deelstra (378I trailer 2)
16 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Are you interested in the economic importance of mid-sized cities? What do you think about the European Union of Cities? How can governments leave cit...
Courage to investigate how a city should/could function - Remco Deelstra (378I trailer 1)
15 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Are you interested in the economic importance of mid-sized cities? What do you think about the European Union of Cities? How can governments leave cit...
376R_Jocelyn Chiew, strategic and urban designer
12 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
"The city is a place to discover the world ... a global or a universal experience rooted in place."Are you interested in resilience of all l...
Leadership and the culture to encourage it - Jocelyn Chiew (376I trailer 3)
11 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Are you interested in resilience of all lifeforms? What do you think about an urban vision which leads accountability and hope? How can we create bett...
375R_Positive visions for guiding urban transformations toward sustainable futures (research debate)
10 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Are you interested in positive urban visioning? Debate of the article titled Positive visions for guiding urban transformations toward sustainable fut...
Designers' strengths is spatial transformation and translation - Jocelyn Chiew (376I trailer 2)
09 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Are you interested in resilience of all lifeforms? What do you think about an urban vision which leads accountability and hope? How can we create bett...
Resilience as the ability to sustain life vs sustainability - Jocelyn Chiew (376I trailer 1)
08 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Are you interested in resilience of all lifeforms? What do you think about an urban vision which leads accountability and hope? How can we create bett...
374I_Manfred Schrenk, Director of Competence Center of Urban and Regional Planning
05 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
"Our big challenge but big chance is to adopt and develop the [already] built structures."Are you interested in affordable housing? What do ...
Mobility innovation and real walkable cities - Manfred Schrenk (374I trailer 3)
04 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Are you interested in affordable housing? What do you think about innovation in mobility? How can we create utilise the already existing city fabric f...
373R_Adaptability of buildings: A critical review on the concept evolution (research debate)
03 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Are you interested in repurposing existing urban buildings and infrastructure? Debate of the article titled Adaptability of buildings: A critical revi...
Keeping the urban character while progressing with migration - Manfred Schrenk (374I trailer 2)
02 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Are you interested in affordable housing? What do you think about innovation in mobility? How can we create utilise the already existing city fabric f...
Why housing is crucial and how Vienna is doing affordable housing - Manfred Schrenk (374I trailer 1)
01 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Are you interested in affordable housing? What do you think about innovation in mobility? How can we create utilise the already existing city fabric f...
372I_Arman Mirzakhani, architect, urban designer, and researcher
29 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
"The future of cities form is how we organise life."Are you interested in the dimensions of urban futures? What do you think about urban exp...
Smart city types: from scratch, reinforced, and social - Arman Mirzakhani (372I trailer 3)
28 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Are you interested in the dimensions of urban futures? What do you think about urban experimentation? How can we create the future of cities as it dep...
371R_Interrogating urban experiments (research debate)
27 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Are you interested in investigating urban experiments? Debate of the article titled Interrogating urban experiments from 2016, by Federico Caprotti an...
Technology for humanity's flurishing - Arman Mirzakhani (372I trailer 2)
26 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Are you interested in the dimensions of urban futures? What do you think about urban experimentation? How can we create the future of cities as it dep...
Economic vitality as part of the urban dimensions - Arman Mirzakhani (372I trailer 1)
25 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Are you interested in the dimensions of urban futures? What do you think about urban experimentation? How can we create the future of cities as it dep...
370I_Vít Jedlička, President of Liberland
22 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
"The state should be an asset for its citizens, it shouldn't be a burden."Are you interested in how to establish a new country? What do ...
Liberland bringing the best elements of all governance forms - Vít Jedlička (370I trailer 3)
21 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Are you interested in how to establish a new country? What do you think about using blockchain and AI technology in government? How can we reconfigure...
369R_Liberland Blockchain Whitepaper (research summary)
20 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Are you interested in new forms of governance? Summary of the whitepaper titled Liberland Blockchain Whitepaper, published on the Liberland website.Th...
Direct meritocracy as the base for new governance in Liberland - Vít Jedlička (370I trailer 2)
19 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Are you interested in how to establish a new country? What do you think about using blockchain and AI technology in government? How can we reconfigure...
Citizens as stakeholders for a new governance system - Vít Jedlička (370I trailer 1)
18 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Are you interested in how to establish a new country? What do you think about using blockchain and AI technology in government? How can we reconfigure...
368I_Josh Rands, Co-Founder and CEO at TerraCity
15 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
"Transportation is the movement of people and goods ... allowing people to do what they want."Are you interested in predicting urban transpo...
Making 2nd and 3rd rate consequences clear for decision-making - Josh Rands (368I trailer 3)
14 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Are you interested in predicting urban transportation systems and their effects? What do you think about transportation as the movement of people and ...
367R_The fundamental issues and development trends of AI-driven transformations in urban transit and urban space (research debate)
13 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Are you interested in AI-driven urban transformations? Debate of the article titled The fundamental issues and development trends of AI-driven transfo...
Transport as innovation in a wider sense - Josh Rands (368I trailer 2)
12 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Are you interested in predicting urban transportation systems and their effects? What do you think about transportation as the movement of people and ...
Transport allowing people to live their lives comfortably - Josh Rands (368I trailer 1)
11 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Are you interested in predicting urban transportation systems and their effects? What do you think about transportation as the movement of people and ...
366I_Ryan Short, author of ‘The Civic Brand: The Power & Responsibility of Place’ and co-founder of CivicBrand
08 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
"Place isn't optional, we have to have a place. So we have to constantly figure it out."Are you interested in place branding? What do yo...
Engaging the youth in urban functionality - Ryan Short (366I trailer 3)
07 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Are you interested in place branding? What do you think about participating in the civic brand at your place? How can we involve the next generation t...
365R_The Civic Brand: The Power & Responsibility of Place (book summary)
06 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Are you interested in place branding? Our summary today works with the book titled The Civic Brand: The Power & Responsibility of Place from 2025,...
Urban evolution and growth as improvement - Ryan Short (366I trailer 2)
05 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Are you interested in place branding? What do you think about participating in the civic brand at your place? How can we involve the next generation t...
Placebranding and the civic brand with the triple bottom line - Ryan Short (366I trailer 1)
04 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Are you interested in place branding? What do you think about participating in the civic brand at your place? How can we involve the next generation t...
364I_Brett Ferrin, VP of Sales for North America at Traffic Logix
01 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
"We have an obligation ... to be aware of our surroundings, of the impact we have ... and to keep us all safe."Are you interested in traffic...
Involving the next generation and learning from the past - Brett Ferrin (364I trailer 3)
30 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Are you interested in resilience as bouncing forward? What do you think about city sandboxing? How can we increase our adaptive capacity as individual...
363R_Intelligent transportation systems for sustainable smart cities (research debate)
29 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Are you interested in urban traffic safety and its effects on urban planning? Debate of the article titled Intelligent transportation systems for sust...
Decision based on emotion vs data - Brett Ferrin (364I trailer 2)
28 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Are you interested in resilience as bouncing forward? What do you think about city sandboxing? How can we increase our adaptive capacity as individual...
AI as the ability to analyse data quicker - Brett Ferrin (364I trailer 1)
28 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Are you interested in resilience as bouncing forward? What do you think about city sandboxing? How can we increase our adaptive capacity as individual...
362I_Sam Kernaghan, Director for the Resilience Program at the Committee for Sydney
24 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
"Resilience is not going back to the original levels... It's not possible. It's actually about going forward."Are you interested in ...
Cities as testing grounds for different solutions - Sam Kernaghan (362I trailer 3)
23 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Are you interested in resilience as bouncing forward? What do you think about city sandboxing? How can we increase our adaptive capacity as individual...
361R_Resilience and the Sustainable Development Goals: a scrutiny of urban strategies in the 100 Resilient Cities initiative (research debate)
22 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Are you interested in resilience as bouncing forward? Debate of the article titled Resilience and the Sustainable Development Goals: a scrutiny of urb...
Resilience as bouncing forward instead of backwards - Sam Kernaghan (362I trailer 2)
21 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Are you interested in resilience as bouncing forward? What do you think about city sandboxing? How can we increase our adaptive capacity as individual...
How to inform decision-making with data - Sam Kernaghan (362I trailer 1)
20 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Are you interested in resilience as bouncing forward? What do you think about city sandboxing? How can we increase our adaptive capacity as individual...
360_Residuality Theory, antifragility, resilience and complex systems - Barry O'Reilly
17 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
"Residuality Theory is the idea that a random simulation of stress is more efficient than precision and prediction in a complex environment."...
Antifragility, criticality and resilience with Residuality Theory - Barry O'Reilly (360I trailer 3)
16 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Are you interested in creating antifragile systems? What do you think about the utilisation of residuals? How can we pivot smartness from the marketin...
359R_Residuality Theory (research summary)
15 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Are you interested in how to create antifragile systems? Summary of the articles titled An introduction to Residuality Theory: Software design heuriti...
Smartness as adaptation instead of marketing slogan - Barry O'Reilly (360I trailer 2)
14 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Are you interested in creating antifragile systems? What do you think about the utilisation of residuals? How can we pivot smartness from the marketin...
Residuality Theory for the future of cities - Barry O'Reilly (360I trailer 1)
13 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Are you interested in creating antifragile systems? What do you think about the utilisation of residuals? How can we pivot smartness from the marketin...
358B_Looking ahead - What’s in the future for "What is The Future for Cities?" Podcast?
10 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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, w...
357B_A year in urban futures: Reflecting on 101 episodes of "What is The Future for Cities?" Podcast
08 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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...
356I_Allan Savory, President at Savory Institute
03 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
"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...
355R_The Foundations of Holistic Management (research summary)
01 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Are you interested in holistic resource management? Summary of the book chapter titled The Foundations of Holistic Management from 2023, part of the H...
356I_Trailer_Allan Savory, President at Savory Institute
30 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 b...
353R_Urban mobility scenarios until the 2030s (research summary)
25 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Are you interested in the future of urban mobility? Summary of the article titled Urban mobility scenarios until the 2030s from 2021, by Márk Miskolc...
354I_Andrew J. Cary, CEO and Co-Founder of SNAAP Transportation
25 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
"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 futu...
354I_Trailer_Andrew J. Cary, CEO and Co-Founder of SNAAP Transportation
23 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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...
352I_Petra Hurtado, Chief Foresight and Knowledge Officer at the American Planning Association
20 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
"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 tre...
351R_2025 Trend reports for planners (research summary)
18 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 Hu...
352I_Trailer_Petra Hurtado, Chief Foresight and Knowledge Officer at the American Planning Association
16 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Are you interested in upcoming urban trends? What do you think about the need for investigating multiple futures in foresight? How can we utilise diff...
350P_Abundant energy, the future of jobs, regulation and demand - Panel on the urban energy matrix with Alan Pears, Adam Dorr, Ramez Naam ,
13 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 ener...
Learning from the past for a better future - Mark Nelson (350P trailer 4)
12 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 ener...
Intelligence as a service in a physical word - Ramez Naam (350P trailer 3)
12 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 ener...
349R_Superabundant energy – What will we do with it? (research summary)
11 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Are you interested in the effects of superabundant energy? Summary of the article titled Superabundant energy – What will we do with it? from 2022, ...
Planning for the future without shackling ourselves to the past - Adam Dorr (350P trailer 2)
11 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 ener...
Cost vs value for long-term investments - Alan Pears (350P trailer 1)
09 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 ener...
348I_Nicholas Lalla, urbanist and author of the book Reinventing The Heart Land
06 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
"Are you engaging the community to build solutions to their problems to build the culture of accountability?"Are you interested in the econo...
347R_The economy forward framework: How midsized cities can achieve inclusive growth in the knowledge economy (research summary)
04 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Are you interested in mid-sized cities and their economic contributions? Summary of the article titled The economy forward framework: How midsized cit...