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What is The Future for Cities?

WTF for Cities? is a platform to introduce and connect people who are actively and consciously working on the future of cities and to introduce research about the future of cities.

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00:08:52

166R_What makes a city ‘smart’? (research summary)

What is The Future for Cities? ·

2023/10/23

Are you interested in synthetising a city’s intelligent to be smart? Summary of the article titled What makes a city ‘smart’? from 2016 by Emine Mine Thompson, published in the International Journal of Architectural Computing. Since we are investigating the future of cities, I thought it would be interesting to see city governance using information and communication and sensing technologies. This article investigates the use of such tools by city governments and the shortcomings of such

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00:55:56

165I_Michael Healy, the Smart Cities Programme...

What is The Future for Cities? ·

2023/10/18

Are you interested in how to move and look forward to a better future after negative experiences? What do you think about resilience? How can we become more antifragile and creative for better futures? Interview with Michael Healy, the Smart Cities Programme Manager at Christchurch City Council. We talk about his vision for the future of cities, smart city as the R&D department, the use cases for AI, conflux of natural effects, and many more. Michael Healy’s interest in the use of technology

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00:10:05

164R_A discussion of resilience and sustainability:...

What is The Future for Cities? ·

2023/10/16

Are you interested in whether a resilient community is a sustainable one? Summary of the article titled A discussion of resilience and sustainability: Land use planning recover from the Canterbury earthquake sequence, New Zealand from 2015 by W.S.A. Saunders and J.S. Becker, published in the International Journal of Disaster Rick Reduction. Since we are investigating the future of cities, I thought it would be interesting to see how sustainability and resilience are used within land use planning

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00:02:03

165I_Trailer_Michael Healy, the Smart Cities...

What is The Future for Cities? ·

2023/10/11

Trailer for episode 165 - interview with Michael Healy, the Smart Cities Programme Manager at Christchurch City Council. We talk about his vision for the future of cities, smart city as the R&D department, the use cases for AI, conflux of natural effects, and many more. Find out more in the interview! Music by Lesfm from Pixabay

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00:12:55

163R_Rethinking resilience: Reflections on the...

What is The Future for Cities? ·

2023/10/09

Are you interested in rethinking resilience? Summary of the article titled Rethinking resilience: Reflections on the earthquakes in Christchurch, New Zealand, 2010 and 2011 from 2013 by Bronwyn Mary Hayward, published in the Ecology and Society journal. Since we are investigating the future of cities, I thought it would be interesting to see how to rethink resilience after natural disasters. This article presents calls for expanding political imagination about resilience, to include areas of

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00:55:04

162I_Warren Hill, enterprise account director at...

What is The Future for Cities? ·

2023/10/04

Are you interested in the smart city as making urban life easier for people? What do you think about standards and their uses? How can we use the urban lifecycle approach? Interview with Warren Hill, enterprise account director at Appscore. We talk about his vision for the future of cities, combination of different visions, the use of standards, the economic concerns, and many more. Warren Hill has over 30 years of experience in account management across four continents for consulting, software and

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00:09:26

161R_Perception of the quality of smart city...

What is The Future for Cities? ·

2023/10/02

Are you interested in the privacy and security aspects of smart city solutions? Summary of the article titled Perception of the quality of smart city solutions as a sense of residents’ safety from 2021 by Justína Zywiolek and Francesco Schiavone, published in the Energies journal. Since we are investigating the future of cities, I thought it would be interesting to see how to examine the safety and level of satisfaction for the smart city. This article presents a methodology for examining

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00:01:35

162I_Trailer_Warren Hill, enterprise account director...

What is The Future for Cities? ·

2023/09/27

Trailer for episode 162 - interview with Warren Hill, enterprise account director at Appscore. We talk about his vision for the future of cities, combination of different visions, the use of standards, the economic concerns, and many more. Find out more in the interview! Music by Lesfm from Pixabay

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00:11:05

160R_What is the city? (research summary)

What is The Future for Cities? ·

2023/09/25

Are you interested in the city as the theatre for social action? Summary of the article titled What is a city? from 1937 by Lewis Mumford, from the Architectural Record. Since we are investigating the future of cities, I thought it would be interesting to see how the city can be understood beyond the usual suspects of people, infrastructure and networks. This article presents Mumford’s propositions about city planning and the human potential, both individual and social, of urban life. As the most

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00:55:11

159I_Michael Browne, manager at Melbourne Water

What is The Future for Cities? ·

2023/09/20

Are you interested in the Aboriginal understanding of country? What do you think about water in cities? How can we become more connected to country itself? Interview with Michael Browne, manager at Melbourne Water. We talk about his vision for the future of cities, aboriginal and indigenous ideas, what water means to country, resilience, and many more. Michael is a proud Barkandji/ Wemba Wemba man who grew up in rural southern NSW. He completed a Bachelor of Engineering and as a result of his

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00:09:13

158R_Integrating Aboriginal cultural values into...

What is The Future for Cities? ·

2023/09/18

Are you interested in Aboriginal value integration into water planning? Summary of the article titled Integrating Aboriginal cultural values into water planning: a case study from New South Wales, Australia from 2019 by Bradley J. Moggridge, Lyndal Betterridge, and Ross M. Thompson, published in the Australasian Journal of Environmental Management. Since we are investigating the future of cities, I thought it would be interesting to see how Aboriginal cultural values can enhance water management

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00:01:33

159I_Trailer_Michael Browne, manager at Melbourne Water

What is The Future for Cities? ·

2023/09/13

Trailer for episode 159 - the interview with Michael Browne, manager at Melbourne Water. We talk about his vision for the future of cities, aboriginal and indigenous ideas, what water means to country, resilience, and many more. Find out more in the interview! Music by Lesfm from Pixabay

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00:10:27

157R_Ontological review of smart city research...

What is The Future for Cities? ·

2023/09/11

Are you interested in both smartness and the city in the smart city concept? Summary of the article titled Ontological review of smart city research from 2017 by Arkalgud Ramaprasad, Aurora Sánchez-Ortiz and Thant Syn, presented at the Twenty-third Americas Conference on Information Systems. Since we are investigating the future of cities, I thought it would be interesting to see how academic research investigated smart cities in 2016. This article investigates how smartness is very much

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01:24:36

156I_Fanni Melles, future of cities researcher and...

What is The Future for Cities? ·

2023/09/06

"We are architects of our life, not victims of it" !!!!Book giveaway details at the bottom!!!! Are you interested in the city as the emergent property of the urban agents? What do you think about collective responsibility? How can we create better urban futures? This is a very special celebratory birthday episode because I am interviewed by a very special guesthost – Ben Vass, Graph Shaman. Ben interviewed me because I finished my PhD and thought it is time to share my knowledge with you

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00:11:11

155B_#2 Birthday Special - summary of WTF's second year

What is The Future for Cities? ·

2023/09/05

What action will you take to create a better future for cities, thus humanity? The celebration of the second year of the podcast! 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. And stay tuned to learn what's ahead of us! You can enter the giveaway to get one of the books very connected to this podcast:

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00:01:45

156I_Trailer_Fanni Melles, future of cities...

What is The Future for Cities? ·

2023/08/30

Trailer for the celebratory episode 156 - the interview with yours truly, Fanni Melles. I am interviewed by a very special guesthost – Ben Vass, Graph Shaman. Ben interviewed me because I finished my PhD and thought it is time to share my knowledge with you guys – using the birthday celebration as well. We talk about my vision for the future of cities, smarter cities and smarter approaches, collective responsibility, Vitruvian and many more. Find out more in the episode! Music

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00:19:56

154R_Smart City? Smarter City? Smarter Approach? The...

What is The Future for Cities? ·

2023/08/28

Are you interested in why the smart city is complete rubbish? We are starting our 2nd birthday celebration today!!! Our summary today works with the presentation titled Smart City? Smarter City? Smarter Approach? The Smarter City Flywheel from 2023 by yours truly, Fanni Melles, presented at several companies as a result and evolution of my PhD research. Since we are investigating the future of cities, I thought it would be interesting to see how the smart city idea can be useful for practice. This

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00:39:21

153I_Ana Enache, overall sustainability enthusiast...

What is The Future for Cities? ·

2023/08/23

Are you interested in how to talk about sustainability for people to care? What do you think about education about sustainability? How can we become more connected and more data-driven at the same time? Interview with Ana Enache, overall sustainability enthusiast and Chief of Staff at AppScore. We talk about her vision for the future of cities, not taking actions, technology as a neutral tool, smart and educated citizens, and many more. Drawing on over a decade of experience delivering large scale

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00:12:06

152R_Three pillars of sustainability: in search of...

What is The Future for Cities? ·

2023/08/21

Are you interested in where the three pillars of sustainability came from? Summary of the article titled Three pillars of sustainability: in search of conceptual origins from 2018 by Ben Purvis, Yong Mao and Darren Robinson, published in the Sustainability Science journal. Since we are investigating the future of cities, I thought it would be interesting to see how the three pillars of sustainability – social, economic and environment – came about. This article investigates the origins of

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00:01:39

153I_Trailer_Ana Enache, overall sustainability...

What is The Future for Cities? ·

2023/08/16

Trailer for episode 153 - interview with Ana Enache, overall sustainability enthusiast and Chief of Staff at Appscore. We talk about her vision for the future of cities, not taking actions, technology as a neutral tool, smart and educated citizens and many more. Find out more in the interview! Music by Lesfm from Pixabay

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