What is The Future for Cities?

Engineering cities can use now - Laetitia Dablanc (474)

Laetitia 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)

Diogo Correia, Cristiano Vagos, João Lourenço Marques, and Leonor Teixeira test last-mile logistics in Portuguese cities. Over 76% of municipalities lack real-time tools,

Why skills gather in big cities - Laetitia Dablanc (474)

Laetitia 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 rea

Robots and better warehouse jobs - Laetitia Dablanc (474)

Laetitia 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

V. Kelly Turner: Thermal literacy and which heat (472)

V. 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 pro

Passive cooling as agency, not blame - V. Kelly Turner (472)

V. 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)

V. 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

If we built it, we can cool it - V. Kelly Turner (472)

V. 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 th

Heat is a verb, so ask which heat - V. Kelly Turner (472)

V. 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. A

Geoffrey West: Urban Scaling Laws and the Future of Cities (470)

Geoffrey West, theoretical physicist and distinguished professor at the Santa Fe Institute, on urban scaling laws,cities that grow faster than exponential, and what happe

Scaling Laws from Cells to Cities | Geoffrey West

Geoffrey 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)

A 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, an

A City Is a Machine for Social Interaction | Geoffrey West

Geoffrey 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

Geoffrey 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

“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 th

The next generation expects more for the future - Shawn Meyers (468I trailer 3)

Are 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 from-desi

467R_A systematic review of passive cooling strategies integrating traditional wisdom and modern innovations for sustainable development in arid urban environments (research debate)

Are 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 cool

Moving from design to implementation - Shawn Meyers (468I trailer 2)

Are 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 from-desi

What is possible if you are willing to change approaches? Shawn Meyers (468I trailer 1)

Are 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 from-desi

466I_Dr Anne Goodchild, Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Washington and Founding Director at Urban Freight Lab

"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 thi