What is The Future for Cities?
Episodes
348I_Trailer_Nicholas Lalla, urbanist and author of the book Reinventing The Heart Land
02 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 acc...
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)
30 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
"Smart City should be proactive. That before anything [bad] happens would identify areas that need more attention."Are you interested in the...
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)
28 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Are you interested in stakeholder opinions for smart cities? Summary of the article titled What do people want in a smart city? Exploring the stakehol...
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)
26 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 uti...
344I_Mark Coates, Vice President of Infrastructure Policy Advancement at Bentley Systems
23 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
"We've got to start making projects shovel-worthy, not shovel-ready."Are you interested in digital transformation? What do you think abo...
343R_Creating sponge cities to tackle surface water flooding (research summary)
21 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Are you interested in the concept of sponge cities? Summary of the white paper titled Creating sponge cities to tackle surface water flooding from 202...
344I_Trailer_Mark Coates, Vice President of Infrastructure Policy Advancement at Bentley Systems
20 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Are you interested in digital transformation? What do you think about the phrase: “we’ve got to start making projects shovel-worthy instead of sho...
342_Keller Easterling, an architect, writer, and the Enid Storm Dwyer Professor of Architecture at Yale University
16 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
"In some ways, maybe what we're all doing now is separations with a spatial apparatus."Are you interested in spatial language? What do y...
341R_Global urban structure growth shows a profound shift from spreading out to building up (research summary)
14 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Are you interested in urban expansion shifts across 3 decades? Summary of the article titled Global urban structure growth shows a profound shift from...
342_Trailer_Keller Easterling, an architect, writer, and the Enid Storm Dwyer Professor of Architecture at Yale University
12 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Are you interested in spatial language? What do you think about the ever present urbanism concept? How can we leverage space as an opportunity? Interv...
340I_Aaron Stupple, physician and author of The Sovereign Child, and Logan Chipkin, president of Conjecture Institute and junior author of The Sovereign Child
09 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
339R_The Sovereign Child: A Radically Noncoercive Approach to Parenting (research summary)
07 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Are you interested in bringing up the next generation as sovereign individuals for better urban futures? Summary of the book titled The Sovereign Chil...
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
05 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
338I_Alison Watson, Founder and Chief Executive of Class Of Your Own
02 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
"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 g...
337R_Child-friendly cities and communities: opportunities and challenges (research summary)
30 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Are you interested in the concept of child-friendly cities? Our summary today works with the article titled Child-friendly cities and communities: opp...
338I_Trailer_Alison Watson, Founder and Chief Executive of Class Of Your Own
29 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Are you interested in involving the next generation into the building industry? What do you think about the knowledge and behaviour shortage? How can ...
336I_Jon Mills, Director at Urbis
25 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
"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 t...
335R_A framework for exploring futures of complex urban energy systems (research summary)
23 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Are you interested in the energy transformation and its effects on cities?Summary of the article titled A framework for exploring futures of complex u...
336I_Trailer_Jon Mills, Director at Urbis
21 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Are you interested in urban evolution? What do you think about the city as a producer instead of consumer? How can we investigate unintended consequen...
334I_James Mant, CEO of Spero AI
18 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
"[Cities] are part of the solution. They shouldn't be part of the problem."Are you interested in design and placemaking as creating the ...
333R_Place and Place-making in cities: A global perspective (research summary)
16 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
334I_Trailer_James Mant, CEO of Spero AI
15 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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...
332I_Kirsty Braybon, principal of Braybon Advisory and Nuclear Law Lecturer at the University of Adelaide
11 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
"[Resilience, sustainability and sovereignty] is building economies in cities and communities that have longevity."Are you interested in nuc...
331R_Investigating the potential of nuclear energy in achieving a carbon-free energy future
10 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
332I_Trailer_Kirsty Braybon, Principal of Braybon Advisory and Nuclear Law Lecturer at the University of Adelaide
07 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 regul...
330I_Thomas W. Sanchez, Professor of Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning
04 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
"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...
329R_Artificial intelligence and the local government: A five-decade scientometric analysis on the evolution, state-of-the-art, and emerging trends (research summary)
02 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Our summary today works with the article titled Artificial intelligence and the local government: A five-decade scientometric analysis on the evolutio...
330I_Trailer_Thomas W. Sanchez, Professor of Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning
31 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 urb...
328I_Howard Bloom, author and founder of the Howard Bloom Institute
28 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
"So that audacity to reach for the skies has been built into us ever since life reached the land."Are you interested in technological innova...
327R_Cities through the ages: One thing or many? (research summary)
26 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 20...
328I_Trailer_Howard Bloom, author and founder of the Howard Bloom Institute
24 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Are you interested in technological innovation like writing? What do you think about cities as the guiding light for humanity? How can we utilise tech...
326I_Sarah Bridges, Technical Director at Aurecon and Director of Precinct Planning within the AJM Joint Venture
21 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
"The city is a collision of people and ideas."Are you interested in the benefits of investing in public transport? What do you think about d...
325R_Economic and social impacts of public transport investments: A scoping literature review (research summary)
19 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Are you interested in the benefits of public transport? Summary of the book chapter titled Economic and social impacts of public transport investments...
326I_Trailer_Sarah Bridges, Technical Director at Aurecon and Director of Precinct Planning within the AJM Joint Venture
17 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Are you interested in the benefits of investing in public transport? What do you think about design by democracy? How can we create heterogenous citie...
324I_Fin Moorhouse, Research Fellow at Forethought
14 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
"What are uses of land that the market won't provide but are still worthwhile?" Are you interested in the urban aspects not supported by...
323R_Planning ahead for better neighborhoods: Long run evidence from Tanzania (research summary)
12 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Are you interested in long term planning for better neighbourhoods? Our summary today works with the article titled Planning ahead for better neighbor...
324I_Trailer_Fin Moorhouse, Research Fellow at Forethought
10 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Are you interested in the urban aspects not supported by market, like parks and beauty? What do you think about AI evolution? How can we retrofit the ...
322I_Mat Santamouris, Scientia Professor at the University of New South Whales
07 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
"The whole interaction between the developing and developed cities and countries are really dynamic."Are you interested in the difference be...
321R_Synergies and exacerbations – effects of warmer weather and climate change (research summary)
05 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Are you interested in the effects of urban heat islands? Summary of the book chapter titled Synergies and exacerbations – effects of warmer weather ...
322I_Trailer_Mat Santamouris, Scientia Professor at the University of New South Whales
03 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Are you interested in the difference between cities in the developing and developed countries? What do you think about solutions for the right problem...
320I_Glenn Drew, CEO of SQUIZZ.COM, TOTECS and Connected Built
30 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
"We live in an age where the expansion of possibility is actually greater than the latency of restrain."Are you interested in reinventing ou...
319R_Intelligent urbanism with artificial intelligence in shaping tomorrow’s smart cities: current developments, trends, and future directions (research summary)
28 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Are you interested in artificial intelligence advancing cities? Summary of the article titled Intelligent urbanism with artificial intelligence in sha...
320I_Trailer_Glenn Drew, CEO of SQUIZZ.COM, TOTECS and Connected Built
26 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Are you interested in reinventing ourselves for better futures? What do you think about light cities? How can we create conscious urban evolution? Tra...
318I_Mark Lutter, Founder and Executive Director of the Charter Cities Institute
23 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
"One of the biggest strengths is the past of cities."Are you interested in the connection of economics and cities? What do you think about s...
317R_Building resilient cities: The role of charter cities in promoting resilient urban development (research summary)
21 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Are you interested charter cities? Summary of the article titled Building resilient cities: The role of charter cities in promoting resilient urban de...
318I_Trailer_Mark Lutter, Founder and Executive Director of the Charter Cities Institute
19 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Are you interested in the connection of economics and cities? What do you think about superstar cities and their agglomeration? How can we utilise cit...
316I_Don Weatherbee, CEO of RegenX Tech
16 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
"Urban mining is a necessity for future cities!"Are you interested in urban mining? What do you think about differentiating reuse, recycling...
315R_Potential and relevance of urban mining in the context of sustainable cities (research summary)
14 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Are you interested urban mining? Summary of the article titled Potential and relevance of urban mining in the context of sustainable cities from 2017,...
316I_Trailer_Don Weatherbee, CEO of RegenX Tech
12 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Are you interested in urban mining? What do you think about differentiating reuse, recycling and regeneration? How can we make our material use more e...
314I_Andrew Vass, financial market expert
09 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
"I think people underestimate human ingenuity."Are you interested in nuclear energy? What do you think about Australia’s leading research ...
313R_What is nuclear energy? What about the waste? Safety, security and safeguards (research summary)
07 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Are you interested in nuclear power for clean energy? Summary of the articles titled What is nuclear energy, What about the waste, and Safety, securit...
314I_Trailer_Andrew Vass, financial market expert
05 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Are you interested in nuclear energy? What do you think about Australia’s leading research agency’s investigation on nuclear energy? How can we re...
312I_Gilbert Rochecouste, Founder and Managing Director of Village Well
02 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
"I think we've become smaller, we've become less human as consumers, compared to active participants."Are you interested in regenera...
311R_Nature Positive: Guidelines for the transition in cities (research summary)
31 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Are you interested in transitioning cities to be nature positive? Summary of the report titled Nature Positive: Guidelines for the transition in citie...
312I_Trailer_Gilbert Rochecouste, Founder and Managing Director of Village Well
29 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Are you interested in regenerative placemaking? What do you think about urban participation and its consequences? How can we reimagine our place in ci...
310I_Dr Stuart Cowan, Executive Director at Buckminster Fuller Institute
26 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
"Cities can be the places that were how we do our metabolism as a spieces." Are you interested in ecological design? What do you think about...
309R_Ecological urban planning and design: A systematic literature review (research summary)
24 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Are you interested in ecological design? Summary of the article titled Ecological urban planning and design: A systematic literature review from 2019,...
310I_Trailer_Dr Stuart Cowan, Executive Director at Buckminster Fuller Institute
22 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Are you interested in ecological design? What do you think about bioregions in our planning? How can we avoid defuturing? Trailer for episode 310 - in...
308I_Chiara Marletto, Scientific Researcher at University of Oxford
19 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
"Cities are part of the extended phenotype for the kind of knowledge that is produced by human civilisation."Are you interested in how quant...
307R_The Science of Can and Can’t – A physicist’s journey through the land of counterfactuals (book summary)
17 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Are you interested in what is possible based on physics? Summary of the book titled The Science of Can and Can’t – A physicist’s journey through...
308I_Trailer_Chiara Marletto, Scientific Researcher at University of Oxford
15 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Are you interested in how quantum physics is influencing the future of cities? What do you think about the connection between knowledge and urban evol...
306I_Tom Petty, co-founder of CarbonTrace
12 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
"The decarbonisation efforts really need to boil down to dollars."Are you interested in embodied carbon accounting? What do you think about ...
305R_Measuring embodied carbon in the residential sector: Barriers and opportunities (research summary)
10 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Are you interested in embodied carbon accounting? Summary of the white paper titled Measuring embodied carbon in the residential sector: Barriers and ...
306I_Trailer_Tom Petty, co-founder of CarbonTrace
08 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Are you interested in embodied carbon accounting? What do you think about choosing lower emission building materials? How can we make business sense f...
304I_Nick Bray, VP of Global Defence and Security at VANTIQ
05 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
"The plan needs to accommodate constant change, because it's constantly adapting."Are you interested in different levels of AI agents as...
303R_Agentic AI: The future is now (research summary)
03 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Are you interested in urban progress with artificial intelligence? Summary of the white paper titled Agentic AI: The future is now from 2025, by VANTI...
304I_Trailer_Nick Bray, VP of Global Defence and Security at VANTIQ
01 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Are you interested in different levels of AI agents assisting human decision-making? What do you think about open architecture technological systems? ...
302I_Darren Murphy, CEO and founder of Core Integrity
26 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
"I think there is a bit of community / social imperative that we should be standing up for what we want, demanding more."Are you interested ...
301R_A framework for assessing the accountability of local governance arrangements for adaptation to climate change (research summary)
24 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Are you interested in urban governance accountability? Summary of the article titled A framework for assessing the accountability of local governance ...
302I_Trailer_Darren Murphy, CEO and founder of Core Integrity
22 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Are you interested in institutional accountability? What do you think about starting from taking pride in your own community? How can we take responsi...
300P_Urban Food Production with Adam Dorr, Nadun Hennayaka, and Simon Burt
19 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Are you interested in urban food production? What do you think is the difference between food production and agriculture? How can we retrofit urban in...
300P_Trailer03_How can we utilise urban infrastructure better for food production? Simon Burt
18 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Are you interested in urban food production? What do you think is the difference between food production and agriculture? How can we retrofit urban in...
299R_Validating the City Region Food System Approach: Enacting inclusive, transformational City Region Food Systems (research summary)
17 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Are you interested in urban food production approaches? Summary of the article titled Validating the City Region Food System Approach: Enacting inclus...
300P_Trailer02_Why healthy food choices matter for better urban futures? Nadun Hennayaka
16 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Are you interested in urban food production? What do you think is the difference between food production and agriculture? How can we retrofit urban in...
300P_Trailer01_What is cellular agriculture for urban food production? Adam Dorr
15 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Are you interested in urban food production? What do you think is the difference between food production and agriculture? How can we retrofit urban in...
298I_Carina Gormley, senior associate at the Centre for Public Impact’s Climate Change Initiative
12 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
"[The city] is a system that is difficult to map, but it is evolving."Are you interested in allowing governments to fail? What do you think ...
297R_Harnessing social imagination in the era of the climate crisis (research summary)
10 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Are you interested in hallucinating to solve urban challenges? Summary of the report titled Harnessing social imagination in the era of the climate cr...
298I_Trailer_Carina Gormley, senior associate at the Centre for Public Impact’s Climate Change Initiative
08 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Are you interested in allowing governments to fail? What do you think about systems thinking? How can we help governments be bold? Trailer for episod...
296I_Sally Capp, Non-Executive Director of Faculty of Business and Economics at the University of Melbourne and the former Lord Mayor of Melbourne
05 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
"You can't waste a crises!"Are you interested in cities as places for experiments? What do you think about respectful disagreements? How...
295R_Critical success factors for public-private partnerships in urban regeneration projects (research summary)
03 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Are you interested in public-private partnerships for improved urban futures? Summary of the article titled Critical success factors for public-priva...
296I_Trailer_Sally Capp, Non-Executive Director of Faculty of Business and Economics at the University of Melbourne and the former Lord Mayor of Melbourne
01 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Are you interested in cities as places for experiments? What do you think about respectful disagreements? How can we create good partnerships between ...
294I_Erick A. Brimen, CEO of Honduras Próspera and NeWay Capital
29 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
"You can' have a choice if you don't have opportunities."Are you interested in the 3 tasks governance should do? What do you think a...
293R_Rethinking the governance of urban infrastructural transformations: a synthesis of emerging approaches (research summary)
27 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Are you interested in the changing governmental roles in urban transformations? Summary of the article titled Rethinking the governance of urban infr...
294I_Trailer_Erick A. Brimen, CEO of Honduras Próspera and NeWay Capital
25 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Are you interested in the 3 tasks governance should do? What do you think about service-based governments? How can we create good governance and gover...
292I_Anthony Acciavatti, Diana Balmori Assistant Professor at Yale University
22 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
"It's less interesting how technology changes people than how people change technologies." Are you interested in urban water management?...
291R_Future global urban water scarcity and potential solutions (research summary)
20 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Are you interested in urban water management? Summary of the article titled Future global urban water scarcity and potential solutions from 2021 by C...
292I_Trailer_Anthony Acciavatti, Diana Balmori Assistant Professor at Yale University
18 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
"It's less interesting how technology changes people than how people change technologies." Are you interested in urban water management? What do you t...
290I_Jen Borrero, a Colombian-Mexican Impact Entrepreneur and Community Developer
15 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
"Urban living is very dense, that lands it being more resource efficient." Are you interested in housing affordability projects? What do you think abo...
289R_A fresh look at contemporary perspectives on urban housing affordability (research summary)
13 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Are you interested in urban housing affordability? Summary of the article titled A fresh look at contemporary perspectives on urban housing affordabi...
290I_Trailer_Jen Borrero, a Colombian-Mexican Impact Entrepreneur and Community Developer
11 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Are you interested in housing affordability projects? What do you think about successful cities? How can we make the 2nd and 3rd order consequences as...
288I_Dan Hill, the Director of the Melbourne School of Design at the University of Melbourne
08 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
"[Cities are] multiple systems, threaded together, nested inside each other, interacting with each other in different complex ways." Are you intereste...
287R_Essay: On the smart city; Or a ‘manifesto’ for smart citizens instead (research summary)
06 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Are you interested in smart citizens instead of smart cities? Summary of the article titled Essay: On the smart city; Or a ‘manifesto’ for smart ...
288I_Trailer_Dan Hill, the Director of the Melbourne School of Design at the University of Melbourne
04 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Are you interested in the city as tangle of systems and flows? What do you think is the connection among nature, technology and culture? How can we cr...
286I_Junaid Islam, a secure communication expert
01 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
"The future of cities is really something that is in our power to shape it if we are really getting involved."Are you interested in how tech...
285R_Nature futures for the urban century: Integrating multiple values into urban management (research summary)
30 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Are you interested in urban nature futures? Summary of the article titled Nature futures for the urban century: Integrating multiple values into urba...
286I_Trailer_Junaid Islam, a secure communication expert
28 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Are you interested in how technology and non-technology fuses in an ideal urban future? What do you think about hard and soft infrastructure? How can ...
284P_Emerging Young Leaders about the future of cities
25 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Are you interested in how emerging leaders see the future of cities? What do you think about youth engagement for better urban futures? How can we uti...
283_Merry Christmas and a very Happy New Year!
23 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Today would be a research episode, but since it is 2024 Christmas time, I want to just wish you all relaxing holidays with or without celebrating Chri...
282I_Keygan Huckleberry, Emergency Management Officer in Christchurch
18 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
"Some people are aware of the hazards, but unaware of the consequences." Are you interested in disaster resilience planning? What do you think about 1...
281R_Misfortunes never come singly. A holistic approach to urban resilience and sustainability challenges (research summary)
16 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Are you interested in how to manage multiple disasters at once? Summary of the article titled Misfortunes never come singly. A holistic approach to u...