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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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00:01:50

From sustainability to regeneration with foresight -...

What is The Future for Cities? ·

2026/06/16

Are you interested in urban regeneration? What do you think about the challenge of separateness? How can we leverage our transformational times for the best? Trailer for episode 438 - interview with Joris de Leeuw, Regenerative Designer & System Innovator at Protopia Studio. We will talk about his vision for the future of cities, urban regeneration, the complexity of the universe, giving a voice to nature, and many more.Find out more in

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00:12:27

437R_Biodiver_Cities: An exploration of how...

What is The Future for Cities? ·

2026/06/15

Are you interested in how to regenerate urban ecosystem services? Our debate today works with the article titled Biodiver_Cities: An exploration of how architecture and urban design can regenerate ecosystem services from 2019, by Jennifer Koat and Maibritt Pedersen Zari, presented at the 53rd International Conference of the Architectural Science Association 2019. This is a great preparation to our next interview with Joris de Leeuw in episode 438 talking about the opportunities within regeneration

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00:01:49

From separateness to interdependency - Joris de Leeuw...

What is The Future for Cities? ·

2026/06/14

Are you interested in urban regeneration? What do you think about the challenge of separateness? How can we leverage our transformational times for the best? Trailer for episode 438 - interview with Joris de Leeuw, Regenerative Designer & System Innovator at Protopia Studio. We will talk about his vision for the future of cities, urban regeneration, the complexity of the universe, giving a voice to nature, and many more.Find out more in

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00:02:06

Humans and consciousness evolving - Joris de Leeuw...

What is The Future for Cities? ·

2026/06/13

Are you interested in urban regeneration? What do you think about the challenge of separateness? How can we leverage our transformational times for the best? Trailer for episode 438 - interview with Joris de Leeuw, Regenerative Designer & System Innovator at Protopia Studio. We will talk about his vision for the future of cities, urban regeneration, the complexity of the universe, giving a voice to nature, and many more.Find out more in

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00:49:47

436I_Carina Tenewaa Kanbi, a spatial practitioner

What is The Future for Cities? ·

2026/06/10

"The future is very much embedded and designed in local realities."Are you interested in the involvement of informal settlements in the future of cities? What do you think about the importance of creative industries for urban futures? How can we create more ownership within our spaces? Interview with Carina Tenewaa Kanbi, a spatial practitioner. We will talk about her vision for the future of cities, the role of the individuals and governance, informal settlements, creative industries,

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00:02:20

What role do green and public spaces play in cities?...

What is The Future for Cities? ·

2026/06/09

Are you interested in the involvement of informal settlements in the future of cities? What do you think about the importance of creative industries for urban futures? How can we create more ownership within our spaces? Trailer for episode 436 - interview with Carina Tenewaa Kanbi, a spatial practitioner. We will talk about her vision for the future of cities, the role of the individuals and governance, informal settlements, creative industries, storytelling, and many more.Find out more in

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00:12:54

435R_Governance of urban informal settlements in...

What is The Future for Cities? ·

2026/06/08

Are you interested in the governance of urban informal settlements? Our debate today works with the article titled Governance of urban informal settlements in Africa: A scoping review from 2025, by Behailu Mulate Ewnetu and Bo Kyong Seo, published in the Heliyon journal. This is a great preparation to our next interview with Carina Tenewaa Kanbi in episode 436 talking about the need to involve the informal settlements more into the urban futures. Since we are investigating the future of cities, I

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00:02:16

How to bring governments along the improvements?...

What is The Future for Cities? ·

2026/06/07

Are you interested in the involvement of informal settlements in the future of cities? What do you think about the importance of creative industries for urban futures? How can we create more ownership within our spaces? Trailer for episode 436 - interview with Carina Tenewaa Kanbi, a spatial practitioner. We will talk about her vision for the future of cities, the role of the individuals and governance, informal settlements, creative industries, storytelling, and many more.Find out more in

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00:02:06

Connection between mayors and the creative industries...

What is The Future for Cities? ·

2026/06/06

Are you interested in the involvement of informal settlements in the future of cities? What do you think about the importance of creative industries for urban futures? How can we create more ownership within our spaces? Trailer for episode 436 - interview with Carina Tenewaa Kanbi, a spatial practitioner. We will talk about her vision for the future of cities, the role of the individuals and governance, informal settlements, creative industries, storytelling, and many more.Find out more in

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00:55:52

434I_Keith Cooke, Director of Planning & Community...

What is The Future for Cities? ·

2026/06/03

"One of the encouraging things for me that I'm seeing is that the role of planners and what they're doing in the strategic decisions they're making is now greatly overlapped with economic developers."Are you interested economic mobility and zoning reform? What do you think about the connection between housing capacity and housing affordability? How can we leverage housing for better urban economic outcomes? Interview with Keith Cooke, Director of Planning & Community

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00:02:00

Affordability and capacity of housing - Keith Cooke...

What is The Future for Cities? ·

2026/06/02

Are you interested economic mobility and zoning reform? What do you think about the connection between housing capacity and housing affordability? How can we leverage housing for better urban economic outcomes? Trailer for episode 434 - interview with Keith Cooke, Director of Planning & Community Development Markets at Esri. We will talk about his vision for the future of cities, economic mobility, the connection between housing capacity and affordability, urban geography, and many more.Find out

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00:14:30

433R_The effect of housing supply regulation on...

What is The Future for Cities? ·

2026/06/01

Are you interested in how regulations influence housing affordability? Our debate today works with the article titled The effect of housing supply regulation on housing affordability: A review from 2020, by Raven Molloy, published in Regional Science and Urban Economics journal. This is a great preparation to our next interview with Keith Cooke in episode 434 talking about how housing capacity influences housing affordability. Since we are investigating the future of cities, I thought it would be

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00:02:17

Economic mobility as an opportunity for the future of...

What is The Future for Cities? ·

2026/05/31

Are you interested economic mobility and zoning reform? What do you think about the connection between housing capacity and housing affordability? How can we leverage housing for better urban economic outcomes? Trailer for episode 434 - interview with Keith Cooke, Director of Planning & Community Development Markets at Esri. We will talk about his vision for the future of cities, economic mobility, the connection between housing capacity and affordability, urban geography, and many more.Find out

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00:02:02

Land use vs zoning on different timeframes - Keith...

What is The Future for Cities? ·

2026/05/30

Are you interested economic mobility and zoning reform? What do you think about the connection between housing capacity and housing affordability? How can we leverage housing for better urban economic outcomes? Trailer for episode 434 - interview with Keith Cooke, Director of Planning & Community Development Markets at Esri. We will talk about his vision for the future of cities, economic mobility, the connection between housing capacity and affordability, urban geography, and many more.Find out

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00:42:38

432I_Dr Nathalie Mezza-Garcia, digital and...

What is The Future for Cities? ·

2026/05/27

"We don't have to have binary answers ... and that is something that characterises the future of cities. We will have what I like to call a heterarchy of things."Are you interested in floating cities? What do you think about startup societies as an innovative form of governance? How can we create heterarchy for better urban futures? Interview with Dr Nathalie Mezza-Garcia, digital and water-based jurisdiction architect. We will talk about her vision for the future of cities, floating

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00:02:15

Why heterarchy is crucial for the future of cities?...

What is The Future for Cities? ·

2026/05/26

Are you interested in floating cities? What do you think about startup societies as an innovative form of governance? How can we create heterarchy for better urban futures? Trailer for episode 432 - interview with Dr Nathalie Mezza-Garcia, digital and water-based jurisdiction architect. We will talk about her vision for the future of cities, floating cities, legal and environmental aspects, startup societies, digital sovereignty, and many more.Find out more in

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00:11:46

431_Self-organized collective action in the floating...

What is The Future for Cities? ·

2026/05/25

Are you interested in the opportunities with floating cities? Our debate today works with the book chapter titled Self-organized collective action in the floating island project from 2019, by Nathalie Mezza-Garcia, part of the book titled Nonviolent Political Economy. This is a great preparation to our next interview with Nathalie Mezza-Garcia in episode 432 talking about the opportunities within floating cities and new governance models. Since we are investigating the future of cities, I thought it

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00:02:09

Start up societies as new types of governance - Dr...

What is The Future for Cities? ·

2026/05/24

Are you interested in floating cities? What do you think about startup societies as an innovative form of governance? How can we create heterarchy for better urban futures? Trailer for episode 432 - interview with Dr Nathalie Mezza-Garcia, digital and water-based jurisdiction architect. We will talk about her vision for the future of cities, floating cities, legal and environmental aspects, startup societies, digital sovereignty, and many more.Find out more in

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00:02:06

Why floating cities are not green field developments?...

What is The Future for Cities? ·

2026/05/23

Are you interested in floating cities? What do you think about startup societies as an innovative form of governance? How can we create heterarchy for better urban futures? Trailer for episode 432 - interview with Dr Nathalie Mezza-Garcia, digital and water-based jurisdiction architect. We will talk about her vision for the future of cities, floating cities, legal and environmental aspects, startup societies, digital sovereignty, and many more.Find out more in

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00:56:06

430I_Alain Bertaud, urbanist and Distinguished...

What is The Future for Cities? ·

2026/05/20

"Nothing really succeeds as planned, but it succeeds on the side of the plan."Are you interested in market-oriented urban development? What do you think about cities as friends? How can we create projections without making them regulations? Interview with Alain Bertaud, urbanist and Distinguished Visiting Fellow at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University. We will talk about his vision for the future of cities, urban economics and labour markets, planned cities, changing

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