… on Sustainable Cities of course! Thank you Voices of Future Generations for the chance to write for a younger audience… thoroughly enjoyed the experience and received some heartwarming feedback. The piece is here… excerpt below… What if our Cities did not compete with Nature, and instead integrated with it? What if our Cities had […]
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I had the honor of attending and speaking at the Meeting of the Minds Annual Summit in Cleveland two weeks ago. The event revolved around themes related to smart and sustainable cities and the digital economy and occurred amidst global debate on controversial data-driven projects like this one. I have to confess that I usually
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I have often been on the receiving end of this question, and I usually end up providing a long-winded response with several examples to make the point that we do lots of very exciting things that are constantly evolving! Since the last post was a view on planning in general, I thought it would be interesting
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A few weeks ago, a series of thought-provoking debates were held at LSE to celebrate the 10 years of the Urban Age programme. A beta website was also launched, making available the research was undertaken as part of the programme. If you have a few spare minutes this holiday season, I highly recommend watching the recorded presentations.
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Earlier this week, I gave a talk in Dubai about the concept of One Planet Consumption and how built-environment professionals can and are ‘fixing’ the planet. After thirty minutes of listening to me talk about cities taking action, the questions from the audience seemed to all point in one direction: how do we translate this momentum to more sustainable
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I love this year\’s World Environment Day slogan: Seven Billion Dreams. One Planet. Consume with Care. I love it because it captures so well what I believe is this century\’s biggest challenge: providing for the wellbeing of up to 9 billion people within the finite resources of our planet. We are currently consuming at 1.5
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