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111I_Dave Hakkens, an industrial designer, inventor and an overall pioneer
8 februari 2023 · 36 min
Are you interested in sustainable living? What do you think about creating settlements from the ground up? How can a city be overwhelming and impressive? Lees meer
Interview Dave Hakkens, an industrial designer, inventor and an overall pioneer. We talk about his vision for the future of cities, decentralisation, sustainable living options and research, and many more.
Dave Hakkens is a Dutch industrial designer. He gained fame with his two graduation projects: PhoneBloks, a concept for modular telephones, and Precious Plastic, a movement to develop and promote machines and organizations for plastic recycling. After Precious Plastic and PhoneBloks gained momentum, Dave helped to set up One Army, as the group of people from around the world working on global problems affecting the planet and humanity. One Army has five different projects currently: Precious Plastic, PhoneBloks, Story Hopper, Fixing#Fashion, and Project Kamp where Dave spends most of his time. Project Kamp is prototyping a new way of living on planet Earth working on regenerative land management, sustainable building, permaculture, water retention systems, renewable energy, how to peacefully live together and more. This project aims to solve the problem of sustainable living. Dave is seen by many as an example of a new generation of designers who have set themselves the goal of improving society by sharing knowledge.
You can find out more about Dave through these links:
Dave Hakkens on LinkedIn;
@davehakkens as Dave Hakkens on Twitter;
davehakkens as Dave Hakkens on Instagram;
Dave Hakkens on Wikipedia;
One Army website;
Project Kamp website;
Project Kamp on Youtube;
projectkamp as Project Kamp on Instagram;
Dave Hakkens on Dezeen;
Precious Plastic website;
Dave Hakkens on Precious Plastic on the Next Nature website;
Dave Hakkens in Innovators Under 35 at MIT Technology Review;
Connecting episodes you might be interested in:
No.048I - Interview with Professor Hussein Dia about public transport;
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110R_Global survey of Precious Plastic Projects: A summary of findings (research summary)
6 februari 2023 · 10 min
Are you interested in plastic recycling and reuse? Lees meer
Our summary today works with the report titled Global survey of Precious Plastic Projects: A summary of findings from 2020 by Dr Wouter Spekkink, Dr Malte Rödl, and Professor Martin Charter, supported by the Precious Plastic Team and the Sustainable Consumption Institute of University of Manchester.
Precious Plastic was a previous endeavour of our next interviewee, Dave Hakkens in episode 111.
Since we are investigating the future of cities, I thought it would be interesting to see how a grassroots movement like Precious Plastic can create a community with active users and projects. This report presents the projects and workspaces connected to Precious Plastic through the analysis of user questionnaires.
As the most important things, I would like to highlight 3 aspects:
Precious Plastic was founded by Dave Hakkens but currently is grown to be an international grassroots movement to recycle and reuse plastic locally.
The movement represents a practical approach to environmentalism in which people go beyond campaigning to make a difference in the world and literally bring alternatives into practice.
The movement created a glocal community with small local initiatives but global online outreach sharing knowledge and starting business opportunities from plastic recycling with open source machines, workspaces and product ideas.
You can find the report through this link.
Connecting episodes you might be interested in:
No.018 - Interview with María Jose Yanez about sustainable urban living and developments;
No.111 - Interview with Dave Hakkens about sustainable living and their next project, Project Kamp;
You can find the transcript through this link.
What wast the most interesting part for you? What questions did arise for you? Let me know on Twitter @WTF4Cities or on the wtf4cities.com website where the shownotes are also available.
I hope this was an interesting episode for you and thanks for tuning in.
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109R_How much sustainability substance is in urban visions? An analysis of visioning projects in urban planning (research summary)
30 januari 2023 · 9 min
Are you interested in how much sustainability substance is in urban visions? Lees meer
Our summary today works with the article titled How much sustainability substance is in urban visions? An analysis of visioning projects in urban planning from 2015 by Beatrice John, Lauren Withycombe Keller, Armin Wiek, and Daniel J. Lang, published the Cities journal.
Since we are investigating the future of cities, I thought it would be interesting to see whether visionary urban planning can help with economic decline, social injustices and environmental degradation. This article presents recommendations for urban future visioning processes based on 9 global examples to integrate better sustainability substance.
You can find the article through this link.
Abstract: Cities are hubs of social interaction, trade, and innovation. Yet, they face sustainability challenges of economic decline, social injustices, and environmental degradation. Urban planning is a critical instrument to cope with these challenges. Visioning, the process of constructing desirable future states, can provide direction for sustainability-oriented planning and decision-making and is increasingly used in this capacity. However, there is ample evidence that urban visions are often not designed along a robust set of sustainability principles. We analyze nine explicitly sustainability-related urban visions from Sweden, Germany, Ireland, Canada, USA, and Australia with respect to their sustainability substance, i.e. in how far they, broadly and in detail, adhere to sustainability principles. Using rough set analysis, we identify a number of procedural components that enable or obstruct the inclusion of sustainability substance in urban visions. Results indicate that the sampled urban visions do not substantially and comprehensively include sustainability substance, instead narrowly focus on optimizing the built environment, for example. Furthermore, the sustainability substance of visioning processes benefits from sta…
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108I_Dr Anthony Kent, economic geographer, researcher and educator
25 januari 2023 · 45 min
Are you interested in economic geography? What do you think about the political influence on cities? How can we put on environmental lenses on cities? Lees meer
Interview Dr Anthony Kent, economic geographer, researcher and educator. We will talk about his vision for the future of cities, community empowerment, dependencies on political systems, dysfunctional dystopias, wealth generation machines, and many more.
Anthony Kent is an economic geographer. He is Program Coordinator for the Sustainability and Urban Planning Program at RMIT University and is affiliated with the Centre for Urban Research, also at RMIT University. His research focus is on second-tier cities, industrial agglomerations and labour markets. He also consults, teaches and researches on the urban geography of Indonesian cities. He is Associate Editor for Urban Policy and Research and has previously consulted for the Victorian Auditor General's Office and the Knowledge Sector Initiative, Jakarta and was formerly Secretary for the UN-affiliated Eastern Regional Organisation for Planning and Human Settlements.
You can find out more about Anthony through these links:
Anthony Kent on LinkedIn;
@ynohtna1959 as Anthony Kent on Twitter;
Anthony Kent at RMIT University;
Anthony Kent at Centre for Urban Research of RMIT University;
Anthony Kent on Google Scholar;
Anthony Kent on smart cities at Council Magazin;
Connecting episodes you might be interested in:
No.087I - Interview with Paul Brookbanks about landscape architecture and nature in cities;
No.090I - Interview with Matthew McCartney about economics and cities;
No.107R - Planning the post-political city - recommended by Anthony Kent;
What wast the most interesting part for you? What questions did arise for you? Let me know on Twitter @WTF4Cities or on the wtf4cities.com website where the shownotes are also available.
I hope this was an interesting episode for you and thanks for tuning in.
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107R_Planning the post-political city: exploring public participation in the contemporary Australian city (research summary)
23 januari 2023 · 10 min
Are you interested in how much the political system influences cities? Lees meer
Our summary today works with the article titled Planning the post-political city: exploring public participation in the contemporary Australian city from 2018 by Crystal Legacy, Nicole Cook, Dallas Rogers, and Kristian Ruming, published the Geographical Research journal.
This is a great preparation for the discussion with the next interviewee, Dr Anthony Kent.
Plus, since we are investigating the future of cities, I thought it would be interesting to see the political constraints influencing cities and their futures. This article presents the investigation of informal and formal decisions and plannings and their effects on urban areas.
As the most important things, I would like to highlight 3 aspects:
The authoritative and expert-led technocratic planning and decision-making processes of the 20th century are changing for more inclusive and participatory ones.
However, consensus-based politics and decision-making do not allow challenging questions and debates to establish the real better future for cities, so they need to embrace agonistic approaches.
Perhaps, in the end, the most important feature of informal planning movements is not their size but their unique capacity to articulate urban futures that embrace a philosophy of equity within uncertain social and environmental futures.
You can find the article through this link.
Abstract: This special section examines the possibility of meaningful debate and contestation over urban decisions and futures in politically constrained contexts. In doing so, it moves with the post-political times: critically examining the proliferation of deliberative mechanisms; identifying the informal assemblages of diverse actors taking on new roles in urban socio-spatial justice; and illuminating the spaces where informal and formal planning processes meet. These questions are particularly pertinent for understanding the processes shaping Australian cities…
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106R_Smart cities as a platform for technological and social innovation in productivitiy, sustainability, and livability: A conceptual framework (research summary)
16 januari 2023 · 10 min
Are you interested in smart city as a platform for technological and social innovation? Lees meer
Our summary today works with the book chapter titled Smart cities as a platform for technological and social innovation in productivitiy, sustainability, and livability: A conceptual framework from 2021 by Hyung Min Kim, Soheil Sabri, and Anthony Kent, from the book titled Smart Cities for technological and social innovation, published by Elsevier. Anthony Kent will be the next interviewee on the podcast so this is a great opportunity to understand his ideas a bit better in advance.
Plus, since we are investigating the future of cities, I thought it would be interesting to see smart cities as innovation platforms. This chapter presents the evolution of cities from ordinary to smart and the potential social and technological innovations.
As the most important things, I would like to highlight 3 aspects:
Cities are the manifestations of human settlements with a wide range of social and economic activities and they are important because people in cities are important.
Smart cities are the spatial outcome of technological and social innovation and in turn, they are platforms to facilitate innovations.
Smart city is not an end status but a dynamic platform to guide, support and expedite new urban changes via innovations and when the smart city is conceptualised in this manner, any human settlement can be smart.
You can find the chapter through this link.
Abstract: Despite a great deal of attention paid to smart cities, the conceptual framework for understanding them has been partial at best. This chapter establishes a holistic framework to define and evaluate smart cities through three core objectives that any city wants to improve—productivity, sustainability, and livability. Although smartness includes a wide range of aspects within a city, it should tackle the complexity of urban challenges internally and externally generated. Thus, adaptive capacity is becoming more and m…
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105I_Richard Morrison, Industry Director, Technology Advisory APAC at AECOM
11 januari 2023 · 35 min
Interview with Richard Morrison, Industry Director, Technology Advisory APAC at AECOM. We will talk about his vision for the future of cities, transport links as veins, urban renewal, and many more. Lees meer
With over 23 years industry experience, Richard Morrison leads AECOM’s Industry Director, Technology Advisory APAC. A highly experienced Smart Cities advisor, Richard has led projects such as the Smart City Strategy for Bradfield, NSW’s Smart City; to Neom a Giga project in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
You can find out more about Richard through these links:
Richard Morrison on LinkedIn;
@ICT_Ninja as Richard Morrison on Twitter;
Richard Morrison as a speaker at the Sydney Build 2023 expo;
Richard Morrison as part of the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat;
Connecting episodes, that might interest you:
No.006I - Interview with Daniel Prohasky talking about planning for the future;
No.069I - Interview with Dr Éva Kereszty talking about the importance of urban services;
No.075I - Interview with Gavin Cotterill talking about cyber security;
No.078I - Interview with Ammon Beyerle talking about affordability in design;
No.090I - Interview with Matthew McCartney talking about establishing new cities;
No.096I - Interview with Chris Maher talking about housing affordability;
No.099I - Interview with Noel Tighe talking about opportunities being the other side of concerns;
What wast the most interesting part for you? What questions did arise for you? Let me know on Twitter @WTF4Cities or on the wtf4cities.com website where the shownotes are also available.
I hope this was an interesting episode for you and thanks for tuning in.
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104R_The story of NEOM city: opportunities and challenges (research summary)
9 januari 2023 · 12 min
Are you interested in city of NEOM and its history and future? Lees meer
Our summary today works with the book chapter titled The story of NEOM city: opportunities and challenges from 2019 by Alshimaa Aboelmakarem Farag, from the book titled New cities and community extensions in Egypt and the Middle East, published by Springer.
Since we are investigating the future of cities, I thought it would be interesting to see one of the biggest new city developments and this is a great preparation for the next interview with Richard Morrison. This chapter presents NEOM’s history, opportunities and challenges. Plus, I also included the ChatGPT service’s summary and pros and cons as a treat at the end of the episode.
As the most important things, I would like to highlight 3 aspects:
NEOM is planned to be a hub for advanced technology, renewable energy, and innovative industries, and is intended to be a model for future urban development.
The biggest opportunities are advanced technology and innovation, sustainability, and quality of life for this project.
The biggest challenges are the costs, displacement, political instability, unknown timeline, only branding without substance, economic downturn, and social challenges.
You can find the chapter through this link.
Abstract: The story of NEOM city starts when the Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman announced the launch of NEOM, the futuristic megacity, on the conference “Future Investment Initiative” in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, at 24 October 2017. The Project’s promoters aspire to brand a new land where a plethora of unique development opportunities that could contribute to make NEOM a global hub for trade, innovation, and knowledge. The creative class around the world has been invited to participate in creating NEOM, with promises of a new life in a beautiful nature free place, and an independent economic zone with its own laws, taxes, regulations, and no restrictions. Future technology in transportation, growing and processing food, …
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103R_A survey of environments and mechanisms for human-human stigmergy (research summary)
2 januari 2023 · 8 min
Are you interested in human stigmergy and how it works? Lees meer
Our summary today works with the article titled A survey of environments and mechanisms for human-human stigmergy from 2005 by H. Van Dyke Parunak, presented at the Second International Workshop of E4MAS in Utrecht.
Since we are investigating the future of cities, I thought it would be interesting to see the schema to analyse stigmergy among humans. This article presents the examples and suggests how the use of stigmergy can be extended.
As the most important things, I would like to highlight 3 aspects:
Stigmergy is the notion that an agent’s actions leave signs in the environment, signs that it and other agents sense and that determine their subsequent actions.
Stigmergic systems can generate robust, complex, intelligent behaviour at the system level, even when the individual agents are simple and individually nonintelligent because intelligence resides not in a single distinguished agent, nor in each individual agent but in the interactions among the agents and the shared dynamical environment.
Human stigmergy has been based on non-digital systems, however, with the advent of information technology, it can be advanced with special attention to the highlighted aspects like transparency and simulation.
Abstract: Stigmergy (the coordination of agents through signs they make and sense in a shared environment) was originally articulated in the study of social insects. Its basic processes are much simpler than those usually used to model human-level cognition. Thus it is an attractive way to coordinate agents in engineered environments such as robotics or information processing. Stigmergic coordination is not limited to insects. Humans regularly use environmentally-mediated signals to coordinate their activities. This paper develops a schema for analyzing stigmergy among humans, discusses examples (some using a computational environment and others antedating digital computation), and suggests how the use of…
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102_Merry Christmas and a very Happy New Year!
28 december 2022 · 1 min
Today would be an interview, but since it is 2022 Christmas time, I want to just wish you all relaxing holidays with or without celebrating Christmas, Merry Christmas if you do celebrate it, and a very Happy New Year! Lees meer
We will have many interesting topics to discover and further discuss in 2023. I am already preparing those episodes and I am very excited about what will come!
In the meantime, if you need some food for thought check out the last research episode, No.101 about longtermism and what we owe the future.
I hope you are well and also full with plans for the new year, see you then and thanks for tuning in.
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101R_What we owe the future (book summary)
26 december 2022 · 8 min
Are you interested in what we owe the future? Lees meer
Summary of the book titled What we owe the future from 2022 by William MacAskill, based on my reading experience and other summaries.
Since we are investigating the future of cities, I thought it would be interesting to see what future prospects are there for the really long run and how we can influence them. This book describes the unprecedented opportunities for humanity to influence the future and its numerous generations for the better or worse. I hope this gives you some food for thought this time of the year or anytime and how to move forward.
As the most important things, I would like to highlight 3 aspects:
Longtermism is the idea that positively influencing the longterm future is a key moral priority of our time, not just making things less bad, but actually making them better.
There are actions we can take to influence the future based on the presented exemplary problem areas and prevent existential risks.
If we make wise choice today, our grandchildren’s grandchildren will thrive, knowing we did everything we could to give them a world full of justice, hope and beauty.
Summaries used:
What we owe the future review - a thrilling prescription for humanity by Oliver Burkeman, The Guardian;
What we owe the future: a review and summary of what I learned by Michael Townsend, Giving What We Can;
Learn more about the risk areas and actions at 80000hours.org.
You can find the transcript through this link.
What wast the most interesting part for you? What questions did arise for you? Let me know on Twitter @WTF4Cities or on the wtf4cities.com website where the shownotes are also available.
I hope this was an interesting episode for you and thanks for tuning in.
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100P_So much research but where is the smart city? Panel discussion with previous interviewees
19 december 2022 · 38 min
Are you interested in the different meanings and implementations for smart cities from different viewpoints? What do you think about the solutions smart cities could provide? How can we bridge the gap between the different approaches? Lees meer
This episode is the first panel discussion where I invited back previous interviewees to answer some questions together and let them discuss the different viewpoints. The panelists were Gavin Cotterill, Bridgette Engeler, Luke Housego, Daniel Prohasky, and Lilly Ryan. You will hear the Research Seminar recording of the Smart Cities Research Institute at Swinburne University of Technology.
Previous interviews with the panelists:
No.006 - Interview with Daniel Prohasky;
No.015 - Interview with Luke Housego;
No.021 - Interview with Bridgette Engeler;
No.063 - Interview with Lilly Ryan;
No.075 - Interview with Gavin Cotterill;
You can find out more about Noel in the shownotes.
What wast the most interesting part for you? What questions did arise for you? Let me know on Twitter @WTF4Cities or on the wtf4cities.com website where the shownotes are also available.
I hope this was an interesting episode for you and thanks for tuning in.
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099I_Noel Tighe, architect and associate director at Denton Corker Marshall
14 december 2022 · 37 min
Are you interested in the citizen engagement in urban areas and its effects? What do you think about the need for updating our educational systems? How can professionals check their egos? Lees meer
Interview with Noel Tighe, architect and associate director at Denton Corker Marshall. We will talk about his vision for the future of cities, the citizen’s role, educational reforms, giving back to the environment, and many more.
Noel Tighe is an Associate Director at Denton Corker Marshall. Registered in the United Kingdom he is a member of both the Royal Institute of British Architects and the Australian Institute of Architects. In career spanning 30+ years, he has undertaken leading roles on multi-award-winning projects in the commercial, education and civic sectors, in Australia, Europe and Southeast Asia. Noel is a Green Star Accredited Professional and has brought this knowledge to lead projects with award winning sustainable credentials including:
Manchester Civil Justice Centre in the UK
Asia Square in Singapore
Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology at the University of Technology, Sydney
He has extensive experience in the restoration and adaptive reuse of heritage buildings on projects such as:
Hampton Court Palace in the UK
Abbotsford Convent in Collingwood, Melbourne
New exhibition galleries at the Heritage Listed Australian War Memorial in Canberra
Noel has demonstrated a commitment to informing and empowering communities to the development of their local environment. This experience was instrumental for the successful campaign to preserve Melbourne's Abbotsford Convent for community use and later works to convert the estate into one of Australia's leading arts precincts.
You can find out more about Noel in the shownotes.
Connecting episodes you might be interested in:
No.015I - Interview with Luke Housego about Mortal Engines :D ;
No.031R - City attachment and use of urban services;
No.069I - Interview with Dr Éva Kereszty about needed educ…
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098R_Building social capital: A learning agenda for the twenty-first century (research summary)
12 december 2022 · 12 min
Are you interested in how to create social capital for the 21st century? Lees meer
Our summary today works with the article titled Building social capital: A learning agenda for the twenty-first century from 1997 by Patricia A. Wilson, published in the Urban Studies journal.
Since we are investigating the future of cities, I thought it would be interesting to see how to create the so many times required social capital – which will also be partially our topic with Noel Tighe, the next interviewee in episode 99. This article presents the importance of social capital and how professionals can participate in building it.
As the most important things, I would like to highlight 3 aspects:
Social capital is the propensity for individuals to join together to address mutual needs and to pursue common interest and it is needed because it increases a community’s productive potential and the cultural will to solve community problems collaboratively.
The concept of the social capital also lends legitimacy to the idea of the individual in the community: each person is defined not just alone but in relationship to others.
The successful community is not a collection of atomistic individuals bumping into each other’s self-interest, but rather is a network, a web of individuals-in-community and experts and professionals can help such networks with proper tools and skills.
You can find the article through this link.
You can find the transcript through this link.
What wast the most interesting part for you? What questions did arise for you? Let me know on Twitter @WTF4Cities or on the wtf4cities.com website where the shownotes are also available.
I hope this was an interesting episode for you and thanks for tuning in.
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097R_A multilevel method to assess and design the renovation and integration of smart cities (research summary)
5 december 2022 · 11 min
Are you interested in smart cities to enhance quality of life for urban inhabitants? Lees meer
Summary of the article titled A multilevel method to assess and design the renovation and integration of smart cities from 2015 by B. Mattoni, F. Gugliermetti, and F. Bisegna, published in the Sustainable Cities and Societies journal.
Since we are investigating the future of cities, I thought it would be interesting to see a smart city approach which tries to be holistic but specific. This article presents the assessment and design method where the city is considered as a whole human organism integrating each parts.
As the most important things, I would like to highlight 3 aspects:
The main objective of a smart city project is to visualise the city as a unique organism and coordinate all the different aspects in order to appropriately manage their reciprocal influences among the axes.
The authors suggested three territorial cells – region, city and district, and five axes – economy, energy, environment, community and mobility, in which actions can be established based on the local context.
All of this needs integration and interoperability of the different sectors to fully utilise the city’s network nature and involve all stakeholders, citizens, representatives and local businesses based on the smart city vision.
You can find the article through this link.
Connecting episodes you might be interested in:
No.001R - Smart cities
You can find the transcript through this link.
What wast the most interesting part for you? What questions did arise for you? Let me know on Twitter @WTF4Cities or on the wtf4cities.com website where the shownotes are also available.
I hope this was an interesting episode for you and thanks for tuning in.
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096I_Chris Maher, an architect and city planner and the director and national portfolio leader for urban development at Hames Sharley
30 november 2022 · 37 min
Are you interested in creating proper urban connections? What do you think is the architect’s job in the urban fabric? What kind of approach is needed for the future of cities? Lees meer
Interview with Chris Maher, an architect and city planner and the director and national portfolio leader for urban development at Hames Sharley. We will talk about his vision for the future of cities, urban vital energy, distinct urban characteristics, and many more.
The last 30 years has seen Chris Maher working in architecture and urban design throughout the UK, Hong Kong, and Australia. Now, he resides in Perth, Western Australia where he is a Director and the National Portfolio Leader for Urban Development at Hames Sharley. Chris is on a mission to continue to articulate the importance of economic rigour and social understanding in the delivery of environmentally responsive place-based design. The value of good design innovation and creativity is more important than ever and is essential to ensure sustainable outcomes in the future of our built world. Strategic thinking and careful, considered leadership has enabled Chris to build teams ready to imagine and deliver well researched contextual designs. These designs include city centre waterfronts, educational, heritage and mixed-use developments in the UK, Hong Kong, and throughout every major city in Australia. Understanding clients and their values together with an ability to collaborate and clearly communicate with the community and all stakeholders is a unique and vital skill Chris provides throughout each project lifecycle. Chris is also a Design Advisor to many local and state government agencies such as the WA State Design Review Panel, The MRA and Development WA and has sat on the Board of several non-for-profits, dedicated to ensuring Western Australia becomes a state of creativity.
You can find out more about Chris through these links:
Chris Maher on LinkedIn;
@ as Chris Maher on Twitter;
Chris Maher at Hames Sharley;
Con…
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095R_Housing as a social determinant of health and wellbeing: developing an empirically-informed realist theoretical framework (research summary)
28 november 2022 · 11 min
Are you interested in social housing quality and its effects on the tenants’ life? Lees meer
Our summary today works with the article titled Housing as a social determinant of health and wellbeing: developing an empirically-informed realist theoretical framework from 2020 by Steve Rolfe, Lisa Garnham, Jon Godwin, Isobel Anderson, Pete Seaman, and Cam Donaldson, published in the BMC Public Health, which is part of Springer Nature.
Since we are investigating the future of cities, I thought it would be interesting to see how urban social housing quality influences human wellbeing and health, which will be discussed in detail with the next interviewee, Chris Maher in episode 96. This article presents a theoretical framework to understand the less tangible aspects of housing experience on health and wellbeing.
As the most important things, I would like to highlight 3 aspects:
Social housing and renting can impact tenants’ health and wellbeing so how we do it must be properly set up to create the best outcomes.
Quality renting service and quality housing influence the tenants’ experiences in a positive way, improving health and wellbeing.
Investigating and improving these aspects can even operate as public health intervention and prevention in the lives of tenants.
You can find the article through this link.
You can find the transcript through this link.
What wast the most interesting part for you? What questions did arise for you? Let me know on Twitter @WTF4Cities or on the wtf4cities.com website where the shownotes are also available.
I hope this was an interesting episode for you and thanks for tuning in.
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094R_Defining smart city: A conceptual framework based on keyword analysis (research summary)
21 november 2022 · 10 min
Are you interested in the three main domains involved in smart cities? Lees meer
Our summary today works with the article titled Defining smart city: A conceptual framework based on keyword analysis from 2014 by Farnaz Mosannenzadeh and Daniele Vettorato, published in the Journal of Land Use, Mobility and Environment.
Since we are investigating the future of cities, I thought it would be interesting to see the smart city concepts’ keyword analysis and its results. This article presents the three main domains involved in smart cities, and a framework to translate smart city to each of these domains.
As the most important things, I would like to highlight 3 aspects:
Smart city is a holistic approach that aims to address recent urban challenges and exploit recent opportunities provided by the advancements in technology and urbanisation.
Smart city needs to include ICT, integrate different domains, collaborate across stakeholders, and invest in social capital and innovation.
Each city needs to find its own smart city meaning based on their specifics answering the questions of why, who, what, how, when and where.
You can find the article through this link.
Abstract: “Smart city” is a concept that has been the subject of increasing attention in urban planning and governance during recent years. The first step to create Smart Cities is to understand its concept. However, a brief review of literature shows that the concept of Smart City is the subject of controversy. Thus, the main purpose of this paper is to provide a conceptual framework to define Smart City. To this aim, an extensive literature review was done. Then, a keyword analysis on literature was held against main research questions (why, what, who, when, where, how) and based on three main domains involved in the policy decision making process and Smart City plan development: Academic, Industrial and Governmental. This resulted in a conceptual framework for Smart City. The result clarifies the definition of Smart …
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093I_Jeni Paay, professor of human-computer interaction design and the leader of Centre for Design Innovation at Swinburne University of Technology
16 november 2022 · 29 min
Are you interested in interaction design? Do you think we have the knowledge to save the world? What is the purpose of academic research? Lees meer
Interview with Jeni Paay, professor of human-computer interaction design and the leader of Centre for Design Innovation at Swinburne University of Technology. We will talk about her vision for the future of cities, interaction design, the digital city and twins, the need for discovering uncomfortable truths, and many more.
Professor Jeni Paay is a leading international researcher in Human Centred Computing. She is Professor of Interaction Design at Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia and the Director of the Centre for Design Innovation in the School of Design and Architecture. She is also a Program Director of the “Future Urban Living” program in Swinburne’s Smart Cities Research Institute. Jeni has a transdisciplinary background spanning architecture, computer science, and Human-Computer Interaction. Her research areas include: Design Methods; Interaction Design for Mobiles, Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality; Digital Health; Interaction Design for Smart Spaces and Digital Twins; Design for Digital Workspaces and User Experience Design.
You can find out more about Jeni through these links:
Jeni Paay on LinkedIn;
@jenipaay as Jeni Paay on Twitter;
Jeni Paay website;
Jeni Paay as Professor of Interaction Design in the School of Design and Architecture at Swinburne University of Technology;
Centre for Design Innovation led by Jeni Paay at Swinburne University of Technology;
Future places for living led by Jeni Paay at the Smart Cities Research Institute;
Connecting episodes that might interest you:
No.042 - Interview with Professor Mark Burry about digitalised cities;
No.069 - Interview with Dr. Eva Kereszty about educational development;
No.075 - Interview with Gavin Cotterill about digital twins
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092R_The city as an urban interaction design platform (book chapter summary)
14 november 2022 · 11 min
Are you interested in the connection between interaction design and the city? Lees meer
Our summary today works with the book chapter titled The city as an urban interaction design platform from 2014 by Martin Brynskov, and the book’s title is Urban Interaction Design: Towards City Making.
Since we are investigating the future of cities, I thought it would be interesting to see how interaction design can be part of cities because we will talk about it in detail with the next interviewee, Professor Jeni Paay, in episode 093. This chapter introduces the connection, issues and concerns about urban interaction design.
As the most important things, I would like to highlight 3 aspects:
Cities are complex systems with interconnected layers and actors interacting with each other.
Urban interaction design can improve those interactions and citizen engagement with tools, services and products, but these should always remain the means to achieving better participation, and be accessible and usable for the people.
Today and in the coming future, urban interaction design has the opportunity to impact the aspirations of civic engagement and make it a more profound, direct, effective and diverse experience of engaging in public issues.
You can find the book and chapter through this link.
You can find the transcripts through this link.
What wast the most interesting part for you? What questions did arise for you? Let me know on Twitter @WTF4Cities or on the wtf4cities.com website where the shownotes are also available.
I hope this was an interesting episode for you and thanks for tuning in.
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091R_The political premises of contemporary urban concepts: the global city, the sustainable city, the resilient city, the creative city, and the smart city (research summary)
7 november 2022 · 14 min
Are you interested in contemporary urban concepts, like sustainable and resilient city, and their political premises? Lees meer
Summary of the article titled The political premises of contemporary urban concepts: the global city, the sustainable city, the resilient city, the creative city, and the smart city from 2018 by Tali Hatuka, Issachar Rosen-Zvi, Michael Birnhack, Eran Toch, and Hadas Zur, published in the Planning Theory and Practice journal.
Since we are investigating the future of cities, I thought it would be interesting to see how these urban concepts compare. This article presents their juxtaposition and the possibility of them becoming prescriptive for decision-makers and developers.
As the most important things, I would like to highlight 3 aspects:
Urban futures, like the global, sustainable, resilient, creative and smart cities are individually presented in the literature, while in practice they are used together, so there is a gap for researchers to bridge.
These ideas can lose their cores and meanings in implementation because they are morphed to the specific city’s economy and political structure – these can be cured with constructive criticism and revisions.
These concepts should be in the planners and decision-makers’ toolbox rather then prescriptive ideas, to use them for real change in urban areas with attention to how they will affect people’s lives.
You can find the article through this link.
Abstract: Numerous studies have focused on the global city, the sustainable city, the resilient city, the creative city, and the smart city, analyzing their politics, ideologies, and social implications. However, the literature lacks synthetic analysis that addresses these concepts by juxtaposing them and exploring their similarities and differences. This paper provides synthetic analysis, followed by a discussion of the concepts’ competing and complementary logics of governance and citizenship. The concluding section addresses the importance of taking i…
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090I_Matthew McCartney, professor of development economics and researcher at the Charter Cities Institute
2 november 2022 · 1 uur 3 min
Interview with Matthew McCartney, professor of development economics and researcher at the Charter Cities Institute. We will talk about his vision for the future of cities, the pace of urbanisation, economic concepts in urban areas, intratrade in Africa, and many more. Lees meer
Professor Matthew McCartney spent twenty years as an academic at the School of African and Oriental Studies, University of London (2000-2011), and at the University of Oxford (2011-21). He has been a visiting Professor at Universities in China, Pakistan, India, Japan, South Korea, Poland, and Belgium. He is a development economist by background with a teaching and research specialization in the economic development of India and Pakistan after 1947. He has published, supervised, and taught on economic issues relating to industrialization, technology, trade, the role of the state, investment and economic growth, and human development issues relating to nutrition, employment, education, poverty, and inequality. He has also worked for the World Bank, USAID, EU, and UNDP in Botswana, Georgia, Bangladesh, Azerbaijan, Egypt, Jordan, Bosnia, and Zambia. He holds a BA in Economics from the University of Cambridge, an MPhil in Economics from the University of Oxford, and a Ph.D. in Economics from SOAS, University of London. His latest book is the outcome of two years of research-based in China and Pakistan ‘The Dragon from the Mountains: The CPEC from Kashgar to Gwadar’ and was published by Cambridge University Press in 2021.
You can find out more about Matthew through these links:
Matthew McCartney at the Charter Cities Institute;
Interview with Matthew McCartney and Junaid Qureshi, the director of European Foundation for South Asian Studies (EFSAS) about Pakistan, China and CPEC
Matthew McCartney speaking at EFSAS Seminar on CPEC in EU Parliament;
The Dragon from the Mountains book by Matthew McCartney, published by Cambridge University Press;
The Dragon from the Mountains book by Matthew McCartney on…
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089R_African Railways could go bankrupt but this is not necessarily a bad thing & It will be the best of times, it will be worst of times: thinking about contemporary African railway mania (summary)
31 oktober 2022 · 10 min
Are you interested in Africa and its opportunities with railway? Lees meer
Summary of two blog posts titled: African Railways could go bankrupt but this is not necessarily a bad thing and It will be the best of times, it will be the worst of times: thinking about the contemporary African railway mania from 2022 by Matthew McCartney published on the Charter Cities Institute website.
Matthew will be the next interviewee and this episode provides some background information on some topics we will discuss.
Additionally, since we are investigating the future of cities, I thought it would be interesting to see how the African continent is progressing with railways. These articles present the contemporary situation, challenges and possible benefits of railways across Africa.
As the most important things, I would like to highlight 3 aspects:
Although historical evidence proves that railways are basically bad financial investments, they are important for long-term economic growth, like education, broadband internet and good governance.
Railways can help long-term economic growth with making urbanisation, transportation and industrialisation easier, which later lead to paying for the railways.
The economic growth driven by railways can lead to institutional change.
You can find the first post through this link and the second through this.
You can find the transcript through this link.
What wast the most interesting part for you? What questions did arise for you? Let me know on Twitter @WTF4Cities or on the wtf4cities.com website where the shownotes are also available.
I hope this was an interesting episode for you and thanks for tuning in.
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088R_The costs ad benefits of environmental sustainability (research summary)
25 oktober 2022 · 13 min
Are you interested in sustainable solutions but unsure about their economic benefits? Lees meer
Summary of the article titled The costs ad benefits of environmental sustainability from 2021 by Paul Ekins and Dimitri Zenghelis, published in the Sustainability Science journal.
Since we are investigating the future of cities, I thought it would be interesting to see how the sustainable solutions compare to their financial investments. This article presents that no conventional cost-benefit analysis is appropriate in this case because it can understate the longterm benefits of sustainable solutions.
As the most important things, I would like to highlight 3 aspects:
Starting early by credibly steering expectations, inducing innovation and directing investment is in all cases better than delay because ‘grow now and clean up later’ is the second highest cost option, only the existential costs of never cleaning up are higher.
There are three broad environmental strategies to deliver sustainable economies: decarbonisation to reduce the level of global warming, detoxification to reduce the emissions or impacts of other pollutants, and dematerialisation to reduce the environmental impacts associated with resource extraction, conversion, and processing.
A cost-effective low-carbon, resource-efficient transition can generate a cleaner, quieter, more secure, innovative, and productive economy for all countries at all stages of development.
You can find the article through this link.
You can find the transcript through this link.
What wast the most interesting part for you? What questions did arise for you? Let me know on Twitter @WTF4Cities or on the wtf4cities.com website where the shownotes are also available.
I hope this was an interesting episode for you and thanks for tuning in.
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087I_Paul Brookbanks, principal landscape architect at Spiire
20 oktober 2022 · 40 min
Are you interested in landscape architecture, its potential to tackle climate change, and how to connect regional and urban areas more? Lees meer
Interview with Paul Brookbanks, a principal landscape architect at spiire. We talk about his vision for the future of cities, landscape architecture, population increase and the resulting innovation, holistic views, and many more.
Paul Brookbanks is an Australian design leader with extensive public and private sector experience in landscape architecture and urban planning. With 24 years’ experience his diverse skills encompass robust problem-solving abilities, long lasting client partnerships and a legacy of built work success. Paul’s design philosophy emphasizes innovation. He seeks to create places that engage environmental, cultural and social aspirations through adventurous creativity and practical knowhow. Paul has worked on a wide range of decorated projects including top honour awards for Wuxi Lihu Waterfront Parklands, China receiving Waterfront Centre Top Honour Award in 2005 and recently the Regional and Infrastructure Awards for ACT Healthy waterways AILA Awards in 2020. Paul has a passion for working with local communities to shape meaningful connections between people and place and between nature and culture.
You can find out more about Paul through these links:
Paul Brookbanks on LinkedIn;
Paul Brookbanks at spiire;
ACT Healthy Waterways described by Indesco
Connecting episodes which might interest you:
No.012I - Interview with Kieran Leong about design evoking human natural feelings and biophilia
No.043R - Shifting from sustainability to regeneration
No.067R - Theoretical underpinnings of regenerative sustainability
What wast the most interesting part for you? What questions did arise for you? Let me know on Twitter @WTF4Cities or on the wtf4cities.com website where the shownotes are also available.
I hope this was an interesting episode for you and thanks for tuning in.
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086R_Advancing landscape sustainability science: theoretical foundation and synergies with innovation in methodology, design and application (research summary)
18 oktober 2022 · 11 min
Are you interested in landscape sustainability science and its application? Lees meer
Summary of the editorial article titled Advancing landscape sustainability science: theoretical foundation and synergies with innovation in methodology, design and application from 2020 by Chuan Liao, Jiangxiao Qiu, Bin Chen, Deliang Chen, Bojie Fu, Matei Georgescu, Bhunyang He, G. Darrel Jenerette, Xia Li, Xiaoyan Li, Xin Li, Bading Qiuying, Peijun Shi, and Janguo Wu, published in the Landscape Ecology journal.
Since we are investigating the future of cities, I thought it would be interesting to see how landscape sustainability science as a place-based, use-inspired science can improve the dynamic relationships between ecosystem services and human well-being. This article presents the theoretical foundation of landscape sustainability science, discusses recent innovations and examines the applications to address sustainability challenges.
As the most important things, I would like to highlight three aspects:
Landscape sustainability science is rooted in sustainability science, resilience, landscape ecology, and many others to bring sustainability to the practice with various innovations such as modelling and scenario investigations.
Landscape design – as any intentional configuration of landscape compositions for providing ecosystem services and meeting societal needs – provides a platform for scientists and stakeholders to apply scientific knowledge to support decision-making on landscape change.
The strong sustainability perspective suggests that long-term regional sustainability can only be achieved by integrating context-based sustainability in urban, agricultural and natural landscapes to minimize the regional ecological footprint.
You can find the article through this link.
Abstract: Our society has entered in an era of Anthropocene, in which people and their activities dominate almost all ecosystems on the planet. In the context of growing uncertainties, landscape sustainabi…
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085R_Stigmergy in human practice: Coordination in construction work (research summary)
11 oktober 2022 · 10 min
Are you interested in how the concept of stigmergy applies to human cooperation? Lees meer
Summary of the article titled Stigmergy in human practice: Coordination in construction work from 2012 by Lars Rune Christensen published in the Cognitive Systems Research journal.
Since we are investigating the future of cities, I thought it would be interesting to see how the concept of stigmergy, the concept of coordination coming from the study of bugs translates to the study of humans. This article compares bug and human coordination and explores the utility of stigmergy for human practice through the example of construction work.
As the most important things, I would like to highlight 3 aspects:
Stigmergy is a concept of cooperation from entomology, but it can be translated to human context.
In the human context, stigmergy means the distributed cooperative work tasks that are integrated by individual actions based on previous individuals’ actions.
The complex collaboration of construction work can be seen and interpreted as human stigmergy with the addition of forward-looking mindfulness to improve connected tasks.
You can find the article through this link.
Abstract: Stigmergy is a concept of coordination that may be employed to analyse human practice in complex work settings such as the building process. However, the concept of stigmergy was not originally developed in order to describe human practice, rather it was developed within the field of entomology i.e. the study of social insects. Transposing the concept of stigmergy from the field of entomology to the study of human practice raises a central question: Does the concept of stigmergy add anything to our ability to account for the coordination of human cooperative work? We will argue that it does. We will (1) explicitly compare and delimit the concept of stigmergy to well-established concept describing human coordinative practices and show that it differs from these concepts, and we will (2) apply the concept of s…
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084I_Jacek Urbanowicz, an architect at COX Architecture and co-founder of Tunarch.org
6 oktober 2022 · 44 min
Interview with Jacek Urbanowicz, an architect at COX Architecture and co-founder of Tunarch.org, architecture discovery platform that focuses on helping clients find the right designer through the contents of their work. We talk about his vision for the future of cities, the urban representation of Maslow’s pyramid, democratised decision-making, and many more. Lees meer
Jacek Urbanowicz is a Melbourne-based, design technology specialist, registered architect with a decade of professional experience and an entrepreneur. His best features orbit around: building strong relationships with teams, computational design, all-round project delivery and logical problem-solution analysis. Jacek graduated from Poznan University of Technology, Poland and gained initial experience in Barcelona, Beirut and Shanghai. After working on award-winning projects at Bates Smart office, he joined COX Architecture where he develops many significant, large-scale projects.
Jacek is also a co-founder of a new architecture discovery platform: Tunarch. The name comes from "Tuning Architecture", as it allows users to publish and explore design works through data-driven lenses and provides practical tools for designers and real estate clients of all scales and building types. Core benefits of using Tunarch are: well organized key project information, understanding the market landscape, searching convenience and accuracy. At tunarch.org you can manage your design portfolio with ease and grow your business opportunities.
You can find out more about Jacek online through these links:
Jacek Urbanowicz on LinkedIn;
Tunarch.org website;
Tunarch on LinkedIn;
Tunarch on Instagram;
Tunarch on Youtube;
Cox Architecture website;
Superforecastering: The art and science of prediction - book from Philip E. Tetlock and Dan Gardner;
Melbourne Connect website at The University of Melbourne;
Melbourne Accelerator Velocity Program in which Tunarch participated;
Connecting episodes which might interest you:
No.02…
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083R_Operationalising a concept: The systematic review of composite indicator building for measuring community disaster resilience (research summary)
4 oktober 2022 · 13 min
Summary of the article titled Operationalizing a concept: The systematic review of composite indicator building for measuring community disaster resilience from 2017 by A. Asadzadeh, T. Kötter, P. Salehi, and J. Birkmann, published in the International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction. Lees meer
Since we are investigating the future of cities, I thought it would be interesting to see how to build indicators for an overarching community disaster resilience assessment. This article introduces an assessment framework to measure community disaster resilience while also investigating hierarchical, and inductive assessment methods.
You can find the article through this link.
Abstract: The measurement of community disaster resilience through the development of a comprehensive set of composite indicators is becoming increasingly commonplace. Despite this growing trend, there is neither an agreement upon a standard procedure nor a comprehensive assessment of existing measurement frameworks in the relevant literature. To tackle these challenges, this study (1) proposes an overarching eight-step procedure for composite indicator building and (2) develops a meta-level assessment framework to allow for a systematic review of existing disaster resilience measurement frameworks in application of composite indicator building. This meta-level framework was established on the basis of the proposed eight-step composite indicator building procedure and qualified with the introduction of 19 dimensions and 36 metrics for quality assessment. In order to select relevant disaster resilience measures for this analysis, the study applied a systematic survey to collect measures based on four inclusion criteria: community-based, multifaceted, quantitative, and operationalized. Accordingly, 17 resilience measurement frameworks were chosen for further analysis in this review. The results of the quality assessment demonstrated that, from the theoretical perspective, resilience assessments originate fr…
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084I_Trailer_084I_Jacek Urbanowicz, an architect at COX Architecture and co-founder of Tunarch.org
29 september 2022 · 3 min
Trailer to episode 084I for the interview with Jacek Urbanowicz, an architect at COX Architecture and co-founder of Tunarch.org, architecture discovery platform that focuses on helping clients find the right designer through the contents of their work. We talk about his vision for the future of cities, the urban representation of Maslow’s pyramid, democratised decision-making, and many more. Lees meer
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082R_Beyond defining the smart city – Meeting top-down and bottom-up approaches in the middle (research summary)
27 september 2022 · 12 min
Summary of the article titled Beyond defining the smart city – Meeting top-down and bottom-up approaches in the middle from 2014 by Jonas Breuer, Nils Walravens, and Pieter Ballon, presented at the Eight International Conference INPUT 2014 titled Smart City – Planning for Energy, Transportation and Sustainability, and published in the Journal of Land Use, Mobility and Environment. Lees meer
Since we are investigating the future of cities, I thought it would be interesting to see an investigation into the bottom-up and top-down smart city approaches and where they can meet. This article introduces what smart city can mean for the different stakeholders and the consequences of its interpretation.
You can find the article through this link.
Abstract: This paper aims to better frame the discussion and the various, divergent operationalisations and interpretations of the Smart City concept. We start by explicating top-down approaches to the Smart City, followed by what purely bottom-up initiatives can look like. We provide a clear overview of stakeholders’ different viewpoints on the city of tomorrow. Particularly the consequences and potential impacts of these differing interpretations and approaches should be of specific interest to researchers, policy makers, city administrations, private actors and anyone involved and concerned with life in cities. Therefore the goal of this article is not so much answering the question of what the Smart City is, but rather what the concept can mean for different stakeholders as well as the consequences of their interpretation. We do this by assembling an eclectic overview, bringing together definitions, examples and operationalisations from academia, policy and industry as well as identifying major trends and approaches to realizing the Smart City. We add to the debate by proposing a different approach that starts from the collective, collaboration and context when researching Smart City initiatives.
You can find the transcript through t…
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081I_Nataly Arevalo, environmental designer, urban researcher, and lecturer
22 september 2022 · 30 min
Interview with Nataly Arevalo, an environmental designer, urban researcher, and lecturer. We talk about her vision for the future of cities, environmental behaviour research, human sensing and its effects of psychology, and many more. Lees meer
Nataly is a PhD in environmental designer, urban researcher, and lecturer. She applies evidence from environmental behaviour research into architecture and urban design. Her inspiration to pursue the field of environmental behaviour was inspired through her parents who practice architecture and psychology. Another motivation to connect the human mind with the environment sparked during her career as a semi-professional triathlete back in her native country - Ecuador. Through both motives, she understood the importance of training our minds to feel better in our environments where we work, live, and play. Since then, she has carried out intercontinental research focused on achieving higher levels of community well-being and supporting on the translation of people’s views into urban designs and policy-making. Particularly, she conducts research around the fields of Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design, neuroarchitecture, and environmental psychology chanelling into the development of publications, workshops, training, and design studio curriculums. Currently she explores a better way to bridge the fields of Architecture and Psychology engaging in conversations published on her website.
You can find out more about Nataly through these links:
Nataly Arevalo website;
Nataly Arevalo on LinkedIn;
@natalyarch as Nataly Arevalo on Twitter;
Amos Rapoport, the environmental designer mentioned in the discussion;
Introduction to psychology course from Bloom mentioned in the discussion;
Connecting episodes which might interest you:
No.012 - Kieran Leong, architect and principal at the Melbourne Office of DesignInc company, talking about human and natural experiences in the focus of the design process
No.039 - Interview with Kirst…
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080R_Functionality between the size and indicators of smart cities: A research challenge with policy implications (research summary)
20 september 2022 · 12 min
Summary of the article titled Functionality between the size and indicators of smart cities: A research challenge with policy implications from 2018 by Kamila Borsekova, Samuel Koróny, Anna Vaňová, and Katarína Vitálišová, published in the Cities journal. Lees meer
Since we are investigating the future of cities, I thought it would be interesting to see an investigation into the connection between smart cities and city sizes. This article identifies the most significant indicators of smart cities that can divide smart cities into size categories and future policy challenges.
You can find the article through this link.
Abstract: The paper focusses on the concept of a smart city and its specific components in relation to size of the city. Smart cities are a topic whose key importance is being increasingly recognised across both academic disciplines and urban planning. The idea of a smart city is a dream of urban planners all over the world, and a subject of many research and business initiatives as well as policy debates. As cities vary considerably in size, it is important to ask if the size influences the level of selected indicators of smart cities. Our main presumption is that the development level of indicators of smart cities varies in cities of different size. Our scientific objective is to find a simple understandable model linking the categorical variable “city size” to a group of smart city indicators. Our data set contains 26 smart city indicators for 158 European smart cities, divided into two sizes: medium-sized cities and larger cities. We draw from the methodology of “European Smart Cities” elaborated by the Vienna University of Technology (Project ID: 314704) that classify European smart cities and smart city indicators by considering their size. Analysing the statistics by using decision tree modelling, we identify the most significant indicators of smart cities that can divide smart cities into size categories with impressive 96.2% correct classification. …
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079B_#1 Birthday Special - summary of the WTF's first year
12 september 2022 · 8 min
The celebration of the first year of the podcast! Lees meer
I would like to thank you all for joining me on this adventure. I am really grateful for your support. And I am especially thankful for my interviewees who took the time to appear on the podcast and share their ideas and insights. Stay tuned for a special announcement at the end of the episode!
You can find the shownotes through this link and the transcript through this link.
Head over to the wtf4cities.com website for more information, or get in touch on Twitter @WTF4Cities.
Thanks for tuning in during this year, I highly appreciate all of you!
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078I_Ammon Beyerle, participatory architect, urban design theorist, and teacher
8 september 2022 · 47 min
Interview with Ammon Beyerle, architect, urban designer, and lecturer. We talk about their vision for the future of cities, participatory design, the 3 ecologies, affordability, and many more. Lees meer
Ammon Beyerle is a practicing architect, urban designer, and academic with a speciality in participatory design. They recently completed a PhD in participation in architecture and urban design (2018); and have 18 years teaching experience across a broad range of design, theory and technical subjects at 4 universities in Melbourne, Australia. Ammon’s PhD was by creative works, including work from their architectural practice, and focussed on agonistic pluralism. This means rather than pursuing the rational ideology of consensus, embracing tensions, frictions and action in design processes. Prior to starting their own practice, Ammon worked in a structural engineering atelier in Paris on public projects across Europe, China and Africa; in international architectural practices in Japan and Melbourne; and then in community activism and sustainability in Melbourne. Ammon’s architectural practice here studio, has a base in both the City of Melbourne, and the regional city of Ballarat, Victoria. Over 12 years, here studio has led projects in community development, placemaking, and social enterprise, and embedded participatory design methods via running events, newsletters, art installations, startups and action research. For the past 6 years especially, here studio and Ammon have strived to prove that architecture can be accessible to everyone, making it their business to deliver more than 150 modest budget residential renovations, extensions and new homes across Victoria, Australia.
You can find out more about Ammon through these links:
Ammon Beyerle on LinkedIn;
@ammonbeyerle as Ammon Beyerle on Twitter;
here studio website;
residential projects with here studio;
Ammon Beyerle on the here studio website;
Participation in Architecture: agonism in practice - Ammon Beyerle's …
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077R_Steering into the Skid – Arbitraging human and artificial intelligences to augment the design process (research summary)
6 september 2022 · 12 min
Summary of the article titled Steering into the Skid – Arbitraging human and artificial intelligences to augment the design process from 2020 by Geoff Kimm and Mark Burry, presented at the 40th Annual Conference of The Association for Computer Aided Design in Architecture and published in their proceedings Volume 1: Technical papers, keynote conversations. Lees meer
Since we are investigating the future of cities, I thought it would be interesting to see how artificial intelligence can be noted as an ally instead of a risk, at least in the design processes. This article investigates how can architects arbitrage an ever-changing gap between maturing AI and mutable social expectations.
You can find the article through this link.
Abstract: What if any perceived risks of lost authorship and artistic control posed by a wholesale embrace of artificial intelligence by the architectural profession were instead opportunities? AI’s potential to automate design has been pursued for over 50 years, yet aspirations of early researchers are not fully realized. Nonetheless, AI’s advances continue to be rapid; it is an increasingly viable adjunct to architectural practice, and there are fundamental reasons for why the perceived “risks” of AI cannot be dismissed lightly. Architects’ professional role at the intersection of social issues and technology, however, may allow them to avoid the obsolescence faced by other roles. To do this, we propose architects responsively arbitrage an ever-changing gap between maturing AI and mutable social expectations—arbitrage in the sense of seeking to exercise individual judgment to negotiate between diverse considerations and capacities for mutual advantage. Rather than feel threatened, evolving architectural practice can augment an expanded design process to generate and embed new subtleties and expectations that society may judge contemporary AI alone as being unable to achieve. Although there can be no road map to the future of AI in architecture, hi…
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076R_Smart innovative cities: The impact of smart city policies on urban innovation (research summary)
30 augustus 2022 · 11 min
Summary of the article titled Smart innovative cities: The impact of smart city policies on urban innovation from 2018 by Andrea Caragliu and Chiara F. Del Bo, published in the Technological Forecasting & Social Change journal. Lees meer
Since we are investigating the future of cities, I thought it would be interesting to see whether smart city initiatives increase the likelihood of innovation in high-tech, ICT and technology with patent application. This article investigates European metropolitan areas and their smart city initiatives with regards to affecting urban innovation.
You can find the article through this link.
Abstract: Smart City policies have attracted relevant attention and funding over the last few years. While the time seems now ripe to conclude that such policies have a positive impact on urban economic growth, the picture is much less clear when looking at the microfoundations of this effect. In this paper we look at the urban innovation impact of Smart City policies. In fact, typical Smart City projects imply the involvement not only of major multinational corporations, along with local public authorities, but also of local companies, typically with the aim to translate general technological solutions to the local needs. A new data set collected for these analyses comprises data on Smart City features for 309 European metropolitan areas, Smart City policy intensity, and urban innovation outputs. The latter are proxied by calculating total patent applications to the European Patent Office between 2008 and 2013. Patent counts also include technologically narrower classes, namely high-tech, ICT, and specific Smart City technologies patent applications. Propensity Score Matching estimates suggest that cities engaging in Smart City policies above the EU average also tend to patent more intensively. This effect is stronger for high-tech patents, while decreases for more narrowly defined technological classes. This last result suggests possible technological …
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075I_Gavin Cotterill, consulting director of the Cohesive Group's Asia Pacific Digital Practice and co-chair of the Smart Cities Council Digital Twin Task group
25 augustus 2022 · 34 min
Interview with Gavin Cotterill, consulting director of the Cohesive Group's Asia Pacific Digital Practice and co-chair of the Smart Cities Council Digital Twin Task group. We talk about his vision for the future of cities, the smart cities and digital twins, innovation, and many more. Lees meer
As a Consulting Director within the Asia Pacific Digital practice, Gavin Cotterill helps large private infrastructure and government organisations in transforming them from an analogue organisation to a data driven organisation by adopting Building Information Modelling, Geospatial, IoT and Digital Twin technologies. The results of his work can be seen through better economic returns for taxpayers or shareholders, happier and more empowered employees, improved service delivery and social outcomes. He specialises in transformation strategy development, business case development and large-scale business transformation implementation delivery. Gavin has experience leading teams across multiple regions and cultures including Australia, UK, and Asia. He is increasingly involved in how data as asset can help deliver value to infrastructure owners and governments.
Gavin’s passion for a digital future for our cities and built environment sees him involved in several initiatives such as co-chairing the Smart Cities Council Digital Twin Task group and assisting Standards Australia Smart Cities standards reference group. He has also directly supported the development of the international standard for Building Information Management.
You can find out more about Gavin through these links:
Gavin Cotterill on LinkedIn;
@gavincotterill as Gavin Cotterill on Twitter;
Cohesive Group website;
Smart Cities Council website;
Digital Built Australia podcast with Gavin Cotterill and Adam Beck;
What wast the most interesting part for you? What questions did arise for you? Let me know on twitter @WTF4Cities!
I hope this was an interesting episode for you and thanks for tuning in.
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074R_Resilient urban planning: major principles and criteria (research summary)
23 augustus 2022 · 9 min
Summary of the article titled Resilient urban planning: major principles and criteria from 2014 by Ayyoob Sharifi and Yoshiki Yamagata presented at the 6thInternational Conference on Applied Energy, and then published in Energy Procedia. Lees meer
Since we are investigating the future of cities, I thought it would be interesting to see the implications of the resilience concept for the sustainability of urban areas. This article proposes a conceptual framework to assess resilience and urban sustainability based on a set of criteria and their interrelations.
You can find the article through this link.
Abstract: The notion of resilience is rapidly gaining ground in the urban sustainability literature. The frequency of recent incidents including natural disasters such as earthquakes, tsunamis, and hurricanes, and also difficulties caused by the economic downturn has highlighted the vulnerability of human settlements and makes the appropriate consideration of resilience in the planning for future of urban areas of vital significance. Development of an assessment framework for evaluating the extent of resiliency of urban areas can be an effective way of incorporating resiliency-related issues into the urban planning process. For this purpose, it is necessary to clarify the implications of the resilience concept for the sustainability of urban areas. It is also important to identify resilience-related principles and criteria that should be embedded in the framework for assessing the resiliency of urban environments. This study involves an initial review of the literature on resilience and urban sustainability to extract a comprehensive set of criteria that can be used to develop an urban resilience assessment system. Moreover, it tries to design a conceptual framework, illustrative of the inter-relations between these various set of criteria. Criteria for assessment of the resilience of urban areas are divided into several main themes that cover environmental, economic, social,…
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073R_Smart communities initiatives (research summary)
16 augustus 2022 · 10 min
Summary of the article titled Smart communities initiatives from 2004 by Helena Lindskog presented at the 3rd ISOneWorld Conference, 2004. Lees meer
Since we are investigating the future of cities, I thought it would be interesting to see different smart community approaches. This article compares these different approaches and presents how the co-operation between countries, regions and smart communities functions.
You can find the article through this link.
Abstract: Information Communication Technology (ICT) is literally changing every aspect of our life as citizens, employees, employers, parents, friends and as members of any type of community. We are changing the patterns of our professional and social lives. It is not surprising that a great emphasis is put on the possibilities that this new technological development can offer for local communities, governments and their citizens in order to increase quality of life, education, job opportunities and general prosperity. The concept Smart Community was first used in 1993 in Silicon Valley, California, when the area experienced a recession that was deeper than the national economic downturn, and predicted to last longer. Silicon Valley business leaders, community members, government officials and educators decided together to help jump-start the region. Today the concept of Smart Community is widely used. The Smart Communities phenomenon is global in the sense that it exists all over the world as well as local since it is often based on local initiatives. In the Smart Communities Guidebook, developed by the State University of San Diego (1997), Smart community is described as "a geographical area ranging in size from neighborhood to a multi-county region whose residents, organizations, and governing institutions are using information technology to transform their region in significant ways. Co-operation among government, industry, educators, and the citizenry, instead of individual groups acting in isolation, is prefer…
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072I_Dr Tamás Mezős, architect, engineer, architectural historian
11 augustus 2022 · 32 min
Interview with Dr Tamás Mezős, architect, engineer, architectural historian, among others. We will talk about his vision for the future of cities, building archaeology, history of cities, and many more. Lees meer
Dr Tamás Mezős graduated as a civil engineer and an architect in Budapest and since then has collected more qualifications than one could count. Tamás specifically focuses on architectural and monumental conservation, currently working on multiple projects across Europe. He also tought generations of young architects about the history of architecture and the connecting links across the different time periods. Tamás was also the head of Department of History of Architecture and of Monuments at the university, while also the President of the National Office of Cultural Heritage. He published extensively in his research areas including History and Theory of Architectural Conservation, building archaeology and diagnostics, theoretic reconstruction of Roman buildings and restoration works in Hungary, Italy, Germany and Austria.
You can find out more about Tamás through these links:
Tamás Mezős website (HUN);
Tamás Mezős as a professor on LinkedIn;
Tamás Mezős' Wikipedia page;
M&M Architektész Építész Iroda website (HUN);
Tamás Mezős with M&M on LinkedIn;
Tamás Mezős on Google Scholar
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071R_Towards intelligently sustainable cities? – From intelligent and knowledge city programmes to the achievement of urban sustainability (research summary)
9 augustus 2022 · 12 min
Summary of the article titled Towards intelligently sustainable cities? – From intelligent and knowledge city programmes to the achievement of urban sustainability from 2013 by Vittorio Gargiulo Morelli, Margot Weijnen, Ellen Van Bueren, Ivo Wenzler, Marke de Reuver, and Luca Salvati, published in the Journal of Land Use, Mobility and Environment. Lees meer
Since we are investigating the future of cities, I thought it would be interesting to see how intelligent and knowledge city programmes can contribute to urban sustainability. This article suggests that their main efficacy lies in supporting cities through optimization, innovation and behaviour changes.
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Abstract: In the quest for achieving sustainable cities, Intelligent and Knowledge City Programmes (ICPs and KCPs) represent cost-efficient strategies for improving the overall performance of urban systems, especially when compared with the costs of physical restructuring and/or retrofitting projects. However, even though nobody argues on the desirability of making cities “smarter”, the fundamental questions of how and to what extent can ICPs and KCPs contribute to the achievement of urban sustainability lack a precise answer. In the attempt of providing a structured answer to these interrogatives, this paper presents a methodology developed for investigating the modalities through which ICPs and KCPs contribute to the achievement or urban sustainability. Overall, our research suggests that ICPs and KCPs can potentially contribute to all three dimensions of sustainability (i.e. economic, social and environmental), but their main efficacy lies in supporting cities achieve a sustainable urban metabolism through optimization, innovation and behavior changes.
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070R_Citizen-centred big data analysis-driven governance intelligence framework for smart cities (research summary)
1 augustus 2022 · 13 min
Summary of the article titled Citizen-centred big data analysis-driven governance intelligence framework for smart cities from 2018 by Jingrui Ju, Luning Liu, and Yuqiang Feng, published in the Telecommunications Policy journal. Lees meer
Since we are investigating the future of cities, I thought it would be interesting to see an investigation into citizen-centred big data with data-to-decision research from concept to operation. This article proposes a framework for the use citizen-centred big data analysis to drive governance intelligence in smart cities from two perspectives: urban governance issues and data-analysis algorithms.
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Abstract: Sensors and systems within rapidly expanding smart cities produce citizen-centered big data which have potential value to support citizen-centered urban governance decision-making. There exists a wealth of extant conceptual studies, however, further operational studies are needed to establish a specific path towards implementation of such data to governance decision-making with analytical algorithms that are appropriate for each step of the path. This paper proposes a framework for the use of citizen-centered big data analysis to drive governance intelligence in smart cities from two perspectives: urban governance issues and data-analysis algorithms. The framework consists of three layers: 1) A data-merging layer, which builds a citizen-centered panoramic data set for each citizen by merging citizen-related big data from multiple sources in collaborative urban governance via similarity calculation and conflict resolution; 2) a knowledge-discovery layer, which plots the citizen profile and citizen persona at both individual and group levels in terms of urban public service delivery and citizen participation via simple statistical analysis techniques, machine learning, and econometrics methods; and 3) a decision-making layer, which uses ontology models to standardize urban governance-related a…
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069I_Dr Éva Kereszty, doctor, teacher and forensic medical expert
28 juli 2022 · 46 min
Interview with Dr Eva Kereszty, doctor, teacher and forensic medical expert, among others. We talk about her vision for the future of cities, urban services, holistic thinking, expanded disability meaning, and many more. Lees meer
Dr Eva Kereszty graduated from Semmelweis University with forensic medicine and insurance medicine and from Eötvös Loránd University of Budapest with administrative law specialisations. She spent time in the US and various European countries in short-term fellowships. Eva teaches forensic medicine and insurance medicine, health law, patients’ rights, and public administration to graduate and post-graduate students in the Hungarian and English language programs at the medical and law faculties. She was the head of the 2-year post-graduate licence program for medical professionals in law, and she was awarded the „Best Teacher of the Course” award by the students several times.
Eva participated in the preparations for the European Union accession of Hungary in the Hungarian ministry. She represented Hungary in the High-Level Committee for Health and the Governmental Committee of the European Social Charter. Eva also supervised and participated in the legislation of legal tools in health., e.g. the Health Act of Hungary.
You can find out more about Éva through these links:
Dr Éva Kereszty on LinkedIn;
Dr Éva Kereszty at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences;
Dr Éva Kereszty on ORCID;
Dr Éva Kereszty on Google Scholar;
Dr Éva Kereszty at the Hungarian Doctoral Council;
Halottak, akik köztünk élnek - book by Dr Éva Kereszty (HUN) - Dead who live among us (rough translation for the title);
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068R_Measuring urban sustainability: the potential and pitfalls of city rankings (research summary)
26 juli 2022 · 12 min
Summary of the article titled Measuring urban sustainability: the potential and pitfalls of city rankings from 2012 by Phil McManus, published in the Australian Geographer journal. Lees meer
Since we are investigating the future of cities, I thought it would be interesting to see an investigation into Sydney’s sustainability. This article discusses how Sydney could become more sustainable and identifies why normative urban sustainability rankings should be recognised for their potential while simultaneously being treated with caution.
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Abstract: Measuring the sustainability of a city, and ranking the city against other cities, is increasingly seen as a way to achieve urban sustainability. A number of studies have highlighted how Sydney is unsustainable, with two recent ranking exercises appearing to confirm these findings by placing Sydney below many other Australian cities for urban sustainability. These two exercises are situated within international moves towards ranking cities. The article explores the assumptions and criteria used by Mercer in its Eco-City Index and the Australian Conservation Foundation in its Sustainable Cities Index. The conclusion discusses how Sydney could become more sustainable, and identifies why normative urban sustainability rankings should be recognised for their potential while simultaneously being treated with caution.
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067R_Theoretical underpinnings of regenerative sustainability (research summary)
19 juli 2022 · 13 min
Summary of the article titled Theoretical underpinnings of regenerative sustainability from 2015 by John Robinson and Raymond Cole, published in the Building Research & Information journal. Lees meer
Since we are investigating the future of cities, I thought it would be interesting to see the difference between regenerative sustainability and regenerative development and design. This article discusses the relationship between regenerative sustainability and regenerative design.
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Abstract: Over the past half century, a discourse emphasizing environmental constraints and limits has both informed and provided many valuable ways of responding to complex environmental problems and has strongly shaped green building practices and associated environmental assessment methods. This paper delineates the concept of ‘regenerative sustainability’ – a net-positive approach to sustainability that is rooted in the notion of ‘procedural sustainability’ and a particular stream of constructivist social theory. The paper contrasts this to the concept of ‘regenerative development and design’ which, although having many commonalities, is based on different philosophical underpinnings. Since the origins of regenerative sustainability and regenerative design lie primarily in the social and ecological domains respectively, understanding their relationship is of importance in formulating approaches for the successful co-evolution of human and natural systems. The paper describes this relationship between regenerative sustainability and regenerative design, including a discussion of some of the key points of convergence and divergence between them, and concludes with an exploration of the practical implications of the regenerative sustainability concept.
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066I_Johan Tijssen, director of HempBlock Australia
14 juli 2022 · 29 min
Interview with Johan Tijssen, the director of HempBlock Australia. We will talk about his vision for the future of cities, the city itself, urban reevaluation, and many more. Lees meer
Originating from Holland, multi-lingual Johan Tijssen is a key figure in the development of the hemp building industry in Australia. He has developed certification, manuals and training programs to meet the growing interest and demand for hemp as a sustainable building material. Johan is passionate about protecting the planet for future generations and minimising the impact of traditional materials used throughout the construction industry. Johan equally focusses on smooth, fast and simple building processes using longer lasting and efficient materials.
You can find out more about Johan through these links:
Johan Tijssen on LinkedIn;
HempBlock Australia website;
@HempBlockAu as HempBlock International on Twitter;
Johan Tijssen Building&Design website;
Johan Tijssen GeoBeam website;
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065R_Smart cities concept and Challenges – Bases for the assessment of smart city projects (research summary)
12 juli 2022 · 10 min
Summary of the article titled Smart cities concept and Challenges – Bases for the assessment of smart city projects from 2016 by Andres Monzon, published at the International Conference on Smart Cities and Green ICT Systems. Lees meer
Since we are investigating the future of cities, I thought it would be interesting to see a smart city assessment tool with city challenges and their available possibilities. This article introduces a project guide as a tool for implementing smart city projects that efficiently respond to complex and diverse urban challenges without compromising their sustainable development while improving the quality of life of their citizens.
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Abstract: ASCIMER (Assessing Smart Cities in the Mediterranean Region) is a project developed by the Universidad Politecnica of Madrid (UPM) for the EIBURS call on “Smart City Development: Applying European and International Experience to the Mediterranean Region”. Nowadays, many initiatives aimed at analysing the conception process, deployment methods or outcomes of the -referred as- Smart City projects are being developed in multiple fields. Since its conception, the Smart City notion has evolved from the execution of specific projects to the implementation of global strategies to tackle wider city challenges. ASCIMER´s project takes as a departure point that any kind of Smart City assessment should give response to the real challenges that cities of the 21st century are facing. It provides a comprehensive overview of the available possibilities and relates them to the specific city challenges. A selection of Smart City initiatives will be presented in order to establish relations between the identified city challenges and real Smart Projects designed to solve them. As a result of the project, a Projects Guide has been developed as a tool for the implementation of Smart City projects that efficiently respond to complex and diverse urban challenges without compromising the…
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064R_The network state (article summary)
5 juli 2022 · 12 min
Summary of the article titled The network state from 2021 by Balaji Srinivasan, usually known as Balaji, published on the 1729 website. Lees meer
Since we are investigating the future of cities, I thought it would be interesting to see a possible future state. This article introduces the network state, what it means and how one can be started.
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063I_Lilly Ryan, lead security specialist at Thoughtworks
30 juni 2022 · 51 min
Interview with Lilly Ryan, lead security specialist at Thoughtworks. We talk about her vision for the future of cities, safety and security, public and private spaces, the ghost in the machine, and many more. Lees meer
Lilly Ryan is a lead security specialist at Thoughtworks, and also serves on the board of Digital Rights Watch. Lilly has delivered presentations across the globe on web application security, privacy education, and the history of technology-related issues. You can catch her talking security on the OWASP DevSlop Show or occasionally having opinions on Byte Into IT.
You can find out more about Lilly through these links:
Lilly Ryan on LinkedIn;
@attacus_au as Lilly Ryan on Twitter;
Lilly Ryan website;
Thoughtworks website;
Digital Rights Watch website;
OWASP DevSlop Show youtube channel;
Byte Into IT website;
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