What is The Future for Cities?
oleh Fanni Melles
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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.
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- 480I_Jonas Birgersson, founder and vice chairman of the Board of ViaEuropa · 58 mnt · Episode 480“The meta story is that we go from few large expensive to many small cheap… the cities are the many small, and instead of being cheap, they can be many small quick. Compared to…
- Instead of the old energy grid, let's take back control - Jonas Birgersson (480I trailer 3) · 2 mntAre you interested in the internetification of energy? What do you think about the energynet? How can we rethink how our urban grid is serving us? Trailer for episode 480…
- 479R_EnergyNet explained: Internetification of energy distribution · 16 mnt · Episode 479Are you interested in how to create an energy system in the 21st century? Debate of the article titled EnergyNet explained: Internetification of energy distribution from 2025, by…
- Smart grids to distribute energy - Jonas Birgersson (480I trailer 2) · 3 mntAre you interested in the internetification of energy? What do you think about the energynet? How can we rethink how our urban grid is serving us? Trailer for episode 480…
- We have everything today for the energy transformation - Jonas Birgersson (480I trailer 1) · 2 mntAre you interested in the internetification of energy? What do you think about the energynet? How can we rethink how our urban grid is serving us? Trailer for episode 480…
- Cities that work with natural cycles - Moein Nodehi (478) · 49 mnt · Episode 478Moein Nodehi, Founder and CEO of Biotonomy, argues that cities have been built in a way that disrupts almost every natural cycle, and that every building decision stays in the…
- Don't save the world. Do what is needed. - Moein Nodehi (478) · 2 mnt · Episode 478Moein Nodehi tells people they will not save the world on their own, but their contribution matters. There will be broken pipes and hard days, and the advice is not to give up…
- Nature-based solutions and the water-energy-food nexus (477) · 18 mnt · Episode 477Carvalho and colleagues' review of 19 urban case studies asks whether nature-based solutions can manage a city's water, energy and food together. This debate tests whether living…
- One greenhouse ties water, food, and heat - Moein Nodehi (478) · 2 mnt · Episode 478Moein Nodehi designs every project holistically. Shower water is treated by plants in a greenhouse that also grows food and works as a buffer space, so water recycling, food…
- Do the right project, then the policy follows - Moein Nodehi (478) · 2 mnt · Episode 478Moein Nodehi says it is the responsibility of every developer, architect and home builder to do the right thing. His team reused a building's wastewater for its green walls and…
- Public space as the product - Howard Kozloff (476) · 57 mnt · Episode 476Howard Kozloff, founder of Agora Partners, argues that public space is the product and buildings are the walls around it. Projects, in his practice, have to be financially viable…
- Who pays to run a public space - Howard Kozloff (476) · 2 mnt · Episode 476Howard Kozloff says someone has to own the operating costs of a public space, and that this is a design and financing question if the welcome is going to last. Stewardship, for…
- How much are public spaces worth? (475) · 13 mnt · Episode 475Jagoda Adamus's 2023 paper asks what public spaces are worth when the market will not name a price. This debate tests whether total economic value can hold a plaza's cultural…
- Zoning gets priced into the land - Howard Kozloff (476) · 2 mnt · Episode 476Howard Kozloff argues that land markets price a zoning rule as soon as a city approves it, sometimes overnight. A late demand for a park can stop a building that an early rule…
- Entrepreneurial planning for public space - Howard Kozloff (476) · 2 mnt · Episode 476Howard Kozloff calls entrepreneurial planning the habit of using developer discipline on problems usually left to policy, so a plan shapes what gets built. He treats the park and…
- Urban logistics in large cities - Laetitia Dablanc (474) · 43 mnt · Episode 474Laetitia Dablanc, professor at the University Gustave Eiffel, says urban logistics in large cities already delivers the goods. The gap she names is planner skill, not a missing…
- Engineering cities can use now - Laetitia Dablanc (474) · 2 mnt · Episode 474Laetitia Dablanc points to solar panels, new vegetation, and two years of swimming in the Seine as engineering cities already have, and still do not use enough. From the…
- Last-mile urban logistics in Portuguese cities (473) · 11 mnt · Episode 473Diogo Correia, Cristiano Vagos, João Lourenço Marques, and Leonor Teixeira test last-mile logistics in Portuguese cities. Over 76% of municipalities lack real-time tools, so a…
- Why skills gather in big cities - Laetitia Dablanc (474) · 2 mnt · Episode 474Laetitia Dablanc argues that innovations come from a concentration of different people, and that a campus, a hospital, or a city hall still needs a big city to become real. From…
- Robots and better warehouse jobs - Laetitia Dablanc (474) · 2 mnt · Episode 474Laetitia Dablanc says automated warehouses make the work less miserable, because robots take the worst jobs, and that training today's workers into the new ones will not be easy…
- V. Kelly Turner: Thermal literacy and which heat (472) · 42 mnt · Episode 472V. Kelly Turner, associate director and professor of urban planning and geography at UCLA's Luskin Center for Innovation, on treating extreme heat as a daily planning problem…
- Passive cooling as agency, not blame - V. Kelly Turner (472) · 2 mnt · Episode 472V. Kelly Turner would cool a home by night ventilation and covered windows, and she refuses to call that a private duty. Agency, she says, still sits inside a collective…
- Hyper-local heat beyond surface temperature (471) · 14 mnt · Episode 471V. Kelly Turner and colleagues find that a satellite map of land surface temperature is a poor guide to theheat a person feels in Civano, Tucson. Painting a street white can cool…
- If we built it, we can cool it - V. Kelly Turner (472) · 2 mnt · Episode 472V. Kelly Turner finds optimism in a simple fact: cities are mutable. If people built a hot street, they canretrofit it, and local staff writing heat plans already know their…
- Heat is a verb, so ask which heat - V. Kelly Turner (472) · 2 mnt · Episode 472V. Kelly Turner says heat is a verb. A weather-app temperature is one snapshot of an energy exchange, and a city that plans to manage heat still has to say which heat. Air…
- Geoffrey West: Urban Scaling Laws and the Future of Cities (470) · 1 jam 15 mnt · Episode 470Geoffrey West, theoretical physicist and distinguished professor at the Santa Fe Institute, on urban scaling laws,cities that grow faster than exponential, and what happens when…
- Scaling Laws from Cells to Cities | Geoffrey West · 2 mnt · Episode 470Geoffrey West on urban populations growing faster than exponential, and the strange present in which some cities cannot build housing fast enough while others are already…
- Growth, Innovation, and the Pace of Life in Cities (469) · 14 mnt · Episode 469A research debate on the 2007 paper Growth, innovation, scaling, and the pace of life in cities, by Luís M. A. Bettencourt, José Lobo, Dirk Helbing, Christian Kühnert, and…
- A City Is a Machine for Social Interaction | Geoffrey West · 2 mnt · Episode 470Geoffrey West on urban populations growing faster than exponential, and the strange present in which some cities cannot build housing fast enough while others are already…
- Cities Growing Faster Than Exponential | Geoffrey West · 2 mnt · Episode 470Geoffrey West on urban populations growing faster than exponential, and the strange present in which some cities cannot build housing fast enough while others are already…
- 468I_Shawn Meyers, Middle East Masterplanning Director · 43 mnt · Episode 468“We’ve been optimizing what’s familiar rather than asking what’s possible.” Are you interested in the Middle East as a testing ground for urban solutions? What do you think about…
- The next generation expects more for the future - Shawn Meyers (468I trailer 3) · 2 mnt · Episode 468Are you interested in the Middle East as a testing ground for urban solutions? What do you think about mistaking innovation for progress? How can we improve our…
- 467R_A systematic review of passive cooling strategies integrating traditional wisdom and modern innovations for sustainable development in arid urban environments (research debate) · 18 mnt · Episode 467Are you interested in what we can learn from the Middle East regarding urban cooling? Our debate today works with the article titled A systematic review of passive cooling…
- Moving from design to implementation - Shawn Meyers (468I trailer 2) · 2 mnt · Episode 468Are you interested in the Middle East as a testing ground for urban solutions? What do you think about mistaking innovation for progress? How can we improve our…
- What is possible if you are willing to change approaches? Shawn Meyers (468I trailer 1) · 2 mnt · Episode 468Are you interested in the Middle East as a testing ground for urban solutions? What do you think about mistaking innovation for progress? How can we improve our…
- 466I_Dr Anne Goodchild, Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Washington and Founding Director at Urban Freight Lab · 56 mnt · Episode 466"I’ve really been trying to make the case that last mile delivery is a public good that the government should be investing in. You can only exist in a city because of this…
- Cities providing opportunities for sustainability - Anne Goodchild (466I trailer 3) · 2 mnt · Episode 466Are you interested in urban freight as the movement of gods across scales? What do you think about the trust needed for expert vision creation? How can we accommodate for more…
- 465R_The state of sustainable urban last-mile freight planning in the United States (research) · 12 mnt · Episode 465Are you interested in last-mile freight planning? Debate of the article titled The state of sustainable urban last-mile freight planning in the United States from 2024, by Thomas…
- Urban freight designed to leave space for people - Anne Goodchild (466I trailer 2) · 2 mnt · Episode 466Are you interested in urban freight as the movement of gods across scales? What do you think about the trust needed for expert vision creation? How can we accommodate for more…
- The importance of leaders setting the urban vision - Anne Goodchild (466I trailer 1) · 2 mnt · Episode 466Are you interested in urban freight as the movement of gods across scales? What do you think about the trust needed for expert vision creation? How can we accommodate for more…
- 464I_Laura Reupke, CEO of BABLE · 47 mnt · Episode 464"We do have solutions already today. We do see already what works today. We do know what is causing the problem. We do have it all." Are you interested in liveable cities…
- Why do we still need to be optimistic? Laura Reupke (464I trailer 3) · 2 mntAre you interested in liveable cities designed for everyone? What do you think about having conversations about the future of cities with strangers? How can we design the future…
- 463R_Environmental and health effects of the Barcelona superblocks · 12 mnt · Episode 463Are you interested in the superblock model’s effects of health and the environment? Our debate today works with the article titled Environmental and health effects of the…
- We do have solutions today for the urban challenges - Laura Reupke (464I trailer 2) · 2 mntAre you interested in liveable cities designed for everyone? What do you think about having conversations about the future of cities with strangers? How can we design the future…
- What healthy liveability means - Laura Reupke (464I trailer 1) · 2 mntAre you interested in liveable cities designed for everyone? What do you think about having conversations about the future of cities with strangers? How can we design the future…
- 462B_Reflections with Ben Vass and Fanni Melles · 39 mnt · Episode 462"The future is here, just not evenly distributed." Are you interested in urban conscious evolution and a hopeful future? What do you think about the saying: the future is here…
- Human progress is something to be proud of - Ben Vass and Fanni Melles (462B trailer 3) · 2 mntAre you interested in urban conscious evolution and a hopeful future? What do you think about the saying: the future is here just not evenly distributed? How can we move towards…
- 461B_Building Better Cities (book summary) · 10 mnt · Episode 461Are you interested in how to build better cities based on 5 years of conversations? Summary of the book titled Building Better Cities from 2026, by yours truly, Fanni Melles…
- Energy abundance through human ingenuity - Ben Vass and Fanni Melles (462B trailer 2) · 2 mntAre you interested in urban conscious evolution and a hopeful future? What do you think about the saying: the future is here just not evenly distributed? How can we move towards…
- The future is here just not evenly distributed - Ben Vass and Fanni Melles (462B trailer 1) · 2 mntAre you interested in urban conscious evolution and a hopeful future? What do you think about the saying: the future is here just not evenly distributed? How can we move towards…
