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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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00:09:34

053R_Smart Telki – Answering Citizen Demand in the...

What is The Future for Cities? ·

2022/05/16

Summary of the article titled Smart Telki – Answering citizen demand in the outskirts of Budapest from 2020 by Bence Majoros, Marcell Molnár, Tamás Sajti, and Rolland Vida, presented at the 2020 IEEE International Smart Cities Conference. I will interview Rolland Vida in the next episode, number 054I, and this is a great preparation for that interview. Plus, since we are investigating the future of cities, I thought it would be interesting to see how the global solutions can work in different

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00:12:29

052R_Introduction: Innovation and identity in...

What is The Future for Cities? ·

2022/05/09

Summary of the article titled Introduction: Innovation and identity in next-generation smart cities from 2018 by Hoon Han and Scott Hawken, published in City, Culture and Society journal. Since we are investigating the future of cities, I thought it would be interesting to see why it is important to critically consider urban identity and culture as central to the smart city. This article challenges smart city concepts from the urban identity, quality and value at a range of scales and geographic

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00:44:48

051I_Laura Summers, design engineer

What is The Future for Cities? ·

2022/05/04

Interview with Laura Summers, design engineer. We will talk about her vision for the future of cities, urban revitalisation, the fear-FOMO pendulum, and many more. Laura is a multi-disciplinary designer researching technology ethics and building tools to promote fair machine learning. She's the founder of Debias AI and is the human behind Ethics Litmus Tests, fairXiv, the Melbourne Fair ML reading group. Most recently she released the open-source library "Sweet Summer Child Score", a risk assessment

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00:10:07

050R_Towards sustainable urban communities (research...

What is The Future for Cities? ·

2022/05/02

Summary of the article titled Towards sustainable urban communities from 2012 by Appu Haapio published in the Environmental Impact Assessment Review journal. Since we are investigating the future of cities, I thought it would be interesting to see comparison of the internationally well-known sustainability assessment tools, BREEAM Communities, CASBEE for Urban Development, and LEED for Neighbourhood Development. This article investigates and compares these assessment tools with regards to

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00:12:36

049R_A multiple-attribute decision making-based...

What is The Future for Cities? ·

2022/04/25

Summary of the article titled A multiple-attribute decision making-based approach for smart city rankings design from 2018 by Soledad Escolar, Félix Villanueva, Maria Santofimia, David Villa, Xavier del Toro, and Juan Carlos López published in the Technological Forecasting & Social Change journal. Since we are investigating the future of cities, I thought it would be interesting to see city-comparisons regarding smart cities. This article investigates and compares smart city rankings and

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00:43:36

048I_Professor Hussein Dia, the Chair of Civil...

What is The Future for Cities? ·

2022/04/20

Interview with Professor Hussein Dia, the Chair of Civil Engineering at Swinburne University of Technology. We will talk about his vision for the future of cities, future urban mobility, city states, and many more. Hussein Dia is a professor of Future Urban Mobility in the School of Engineering at Swinburne University of Technology, currently serving as the Chair of the Department of Civil and Construction Engineering and the Program Leader of the Smart Cities Research Institute's Future Urban

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00:07:59

047R_Coronavirus recovery: public transport is key to...

What is The Future for Cities? ·

2022/04/18

Summary of the article titled Coronavirus recovery: public transport is key to avoid repeating old and unsustainable mistakes from 2020 by Hussein Dia published on The Conversation. I will interview Hussein Dia in the next episode, number 048R, and this is a great preparation for that interview. Plus, since we are investigating the future of cities, I thought it would be interesting to see how the urban mobility is affected by the pandemic and how to make urban mobility better in the future after

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00:10:34

046R_Analysis and comparison of Smart City...

What is The Future for Cities? ·

2022/04/11

Summary of the book chapter titled Analysis and comparison of Smart City initiatives from 2016 by Aranzazu Fernández-Vázquez and Ignacio López-Forniés, in the book titled Advances on Mechanics, Design Engineering and Manufacturing, published by Springer. Since we are investigating the future of cities, I thought it would be interesting to see the investigation of smart city initiatives. This chapter investigates smart city initiatives based on citizen-centred design methodologies, also paying

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00:42:57

045I_Milan Janosov, Ph.D., the Chief Data Scientist...

What is The Future for Cities? ·

2022/04/06

Interview with Milan Janosov, Ph.D., the Chief Data Scientist at Datapolis and network and data science researcher at the Central European University. We will talk about his vision for the future of cities, network science and complexity research, the different layers of a city, and many more. With a background in physics and biophysics, Milan earned my PhD in network and data science in 2020. He studied and researched at the Eötvös Loránd University and the Central European University in Budapest,

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00:10:57

044R_Measuring community disaster resilience in the...

What is The Future for Cities? ·

2022/04/04

Summary of the article titled Measuring community disaster resilience in the Latvian context: an apply case using a composite indicator approach from 2016 by Maksism Feofilovs and Fancesco Romagnoli presented at the International Scientific Conference “Environmental and Climate Technologies” in Riga, Latvia. Since we are investigating the future of cities, I thought it would be interesting to investigate resilience from the community perspective. This article investigates community resilience to

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00:11:21

043R_Shifting from sustainability to regeneration...

What is The Future for Cities? ·

2022/03/28

Summary of the article titled Shifting from sustainability to regeneration from 2007 by Bill Reed published in the Building Research & Information journal. Since we are investigating the future of cities, I thought it would be interesting to see the difference between sustainability and regeneration in relation to the environment. This article investigates how the designers and stakeholders can create a whole system of mutually beneficial relationships thus moving beyond sustaining the

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00:34:40

042I_Professor Mark Burry, the founding director of...

What is The Future for Cities? ·

2022/03/23

Interview with Professor Mark Burry, the founding director or the Smart Cities Research Institute and Professor of Urban Futures at Swinburne University of Technology. We will talk about his vision for the future of cities, urban citizen engagement, collaboration across disciplines, and many more. Mark Burry is the Founding Director for Swinburne University of Technology’s ‘Smart Cities Research Institute’, an appointment he took up in May 2017. His role is to lead the development of a

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00:09:35

041R_A 100 smart cities, a 100 utopias (research...

What is The Future for Cities? ·

2022/03/21

Summary of the article titled A 100 smart cities, a 100 utopias from 2015 by Ayona Datta published in the Dialogues in Human Geography journal. Since we are investigating the future of cities, I thought it would be interesting to see the smart city application in India as it becomes the site of producing 100 proposed smart cities. This article investigates the technocratic nationalism, and the presence of young urban population influencing the smart city dream. The article is available through this

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00:09:08

040R_Urban sustainability in the information age...

What is The Future for Cities? ·

2022/03/14

Summary of the article titled Urban sustainability in the information age from 2010 by Manuel Castells published in the City, analysis of urban trends, culture, theory, policy, action journal. Since we are investigating the future of cities, I thought it would be interesting to see the sustainable city in action and as a personal matter instead of being an abstract utopian ideology. This article is a transcript of a lecture and it investigates sustainability in urban, sociological and political

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01:08:52

039I_Dr Kirsten Day, architect and lecturer at the...

What is The Future for Cities? ·

2022/03/09

Interview with Dr Kirsten Day, an architect and lecturer at the University of Melbourne. We will talk about her vision for the future of cities, neuro diversity, quality of places, and many more. Dr Kirsten Day lectures in Architecture at the University of Melbourne in Architectural, Practice, Applied Design Thinking, Contemporary Architectural Archives, and Thesis Design Studio. She is also the Senior Academic Advisor for the Bachelor of Design program. Her publications, workshops, and studios

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00:09:35

038R_But how bad this "smart city"! (research summary)

What is The Future for Cities? ·

2022/03/07

Summary of the article titled But how bad this smart city from 2015 by Umberto Cao published in the Festival Architettura magazine. Since we are investigating the future of cities, I thought it would be interesting to see smart city as the efficient city in absolute sense. This article investigates how this efficiency affects the architectural form and quality of the city, possibly creating a dystopia. The article is available through this link. Abstract: The Smart City is a machine, a sort of

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00:09:22

037R_Big data, smart cities and city planning...

What is The Future for Cities? ·

2022/02/28

Summary of the commentary article titled Big data, smart cities and city planning from 2013 by Michael Batty published in the Dialogues in Human Geography journal. Since we are investigating the future of cities, I thought it would be interesting to see sea of available data changes urban areas. This article investigates how the big data shifts the emphasis from longer term strategic planning to short term thinking about urban functions and management. The article is available through this

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00:43:38

036I_Magnus Moglia, associate professor and Urban...

What is The Future for Cities? ·

2022/02/23

Interview with Magnus Moglia, associate professor at Swinburne University of Technology. We will talk about his vision for the future of cities, urban complexity, sustainability, urban resilience, and many more. Magnus Moglia loves data and numbers, so it was not strange that he was drawn to the sciences. In his native Sweden, he studied Physics and Mathematics, graduating from the Royal Institute of Technology of Stockholm in 2000. After a year travelling Asia and Africa, he became passionate about

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00:10:04

035R_Review of sustainability indices and indicators:...

What is The Future for Cities? ·

2022/02/21

Summary of the article titled Review of sustainability indices and indicators: Towards a new City Sustainability Index from 2012 by Koichiro Mori and Aris Christodoulou published in the Environmental Impact Assessment Review journal. Since we are investigating the future of cities, I thought it would be interesting to see how the different sustainability indices work and whether a new is needed to better assess urban sustainability. This article investigates whether a new sustainability index is

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00:11:37

034R_Actually existing smart citizens – Expertise and...

What is The Future for Cities? ·

2022/02/14

Summary of the article titled Actually existing smart citizens – Expertise and (non)participation in the making of the smart city from 2019 by Taylor Shelton and Thomas Lodato published in the City – analysis of urban trends, culture, theory, policy, action journal. Since we are investigating the future of cities, I thought it would be interesting to see how smart citizens are or aren’t involved in establishing the smart city. This article argues that while the citizen participation is crucial to

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