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 futur...
Apr 18, 2022•8 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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 at...
Apr 11, 2022•11 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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 ...
Apr 06, 2022•43 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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 resilie...
Apr 04, 2022•11 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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...
Mar 28, 2022•11 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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 who...
Mar 23, 2022•35 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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 thr...
Mar 21, 2022•10 min•Ep 41•Transcript available on Metacast 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 poli...
Mar 14, 2022•9 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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 st...
Mar 09, 2022•1 hr 9 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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 so...
Mar 07, 2022•10 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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...
Feb 28, 2022•9 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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 passio...
Feb 23, 2022•44 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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 in...
Feb 21, 2022•10 min•Ep 35•Transcript available on Metacast 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 cru...
Feb 14, 2022•12 min•Ep 34•Transcript available on Metacast Interview with Anthony Mazzei, the co-founder and Chief Product Officer at Erin Living. We will talk about his vision for the future of cities, sustainable apartment buildings, effortless living, and many more. So, let’s start with a proper introduction. Anthony Mazzei is the Co-founder and Chief Product Officer at Erin Living. He has spent over 15 years in product and technology, building and designing software for some of the biggest (and smallest) companies and brands in the world. Anthony re...
Feb 09, 2022•59 min•Transcript available on Metacast Summary of the article titled Smart city implementation and discourses: An integrated conceptual model, the case of Vienna from 2018 by Victoria Fernandez-Anez, José Miguel Fernández-Güell, and Rudolf Giffinger published in the Cities journal. Since we are investigating the future of cities, I thought it would be interesting to see how citizens can be involved in smart city initiatives and their capacity to face urban challenges. This article creates a conceptual model for the involvement of inh...
Feb 07, 2022•11 min•Transcript available on Metacast Summary of the article titled City attachment and use of urban services: Benefits for smart cities from 2016 by Daniel Belanche, Luis V. Casaló, and Carlos Orús, published in the Cities journal. Since we are investigating the future of cities, I thought it would be interesting to see how the increasing uses of urban services enhance urban management efficiency and also favour social, environmental and economic sustainability. This article analyses how users’ city attachment levels and othe...
Jan 31, 2022•11 min•Transcript available on Metacast Interview with Ville Sirviö, the CEO of the Nordic Institute for Interoperability. We will talk about his vision for the future of cities, interoperability on national and city level, challenges of change management, and many more. Ville Sirviö is the CEO of the Nordic Institute for Interoperability Solutions (NIIS), a non-profit developing digital government infrastructure, best known for the X-Road® open-source software. Having international experience in leading businesses ranging from ...
Jan 26, 2022•45 min•Transcript available on Metacast Summary of the book chapter titled Smart cities in a smart world from 2015 by Beniamino Murgante and Giuseppe Burroso, from the book Future City architecture for optimal living, edited by Stamatina Rassia and Panos Pardalos, published by Springer. Since we are investigating the future of cities, I thought it would be interesting to see what clever approaches they talk about to guarantee a better management of resources and their sustainable access to present and future generations This cha...
Jan 24, 2022•12 min•Transcript available on Metacast Summary of the article titled Enhancing sustainable urban development through smart city applications from 2017 by Margarita Angelidiou, Artemis Psaltoglou, Nicos Komninos, Christina Kakderi, Panagiotis Tsarchopoulos and Anastasia Panori, published in the Journal of Science and Technology Policy Management. Since we are investigating the future of cities, I thought it would be interesting to see what smart city approaches and tools can contribute to the environmental sustainability domain....
Jan 17, 2022•13 min•Transcript available on Metacast Interview with Richard Manasseh, mechanical engineer and Professor at Swinburne University of Technology. We will talk about his visions for the future of cities, his journey towards being involved in cities, urban brains, and many more. Professor Richard Manasseh is a mechanical engineer with specialist knowledge of fluid dynamics. At a fundamental level, Richard’s research focuses on wave modes and oscillators in fluids and their interactions. He is best known for his work on the vibrations of...
Jan 12, 2022•58 min•Transcript available on Metacast Summary of the article titled Smart cities – a road map for development from 2018 by Sam Musa, published in IEEE Potentials journal. Since we are investigating the future of cities, I thought it would be interesting to understand how a practical approach defines smart city as the future of cities. This article introduces a city-wide smart, secure and resilient transformation needed in light of urban challenges. You can find the article through this link . Abstract: Cities and counties face...
Jan 10, 2022•9 min•Transcript available on Metacast Summary of the the article titled Smart cities of tomorrow from 2013 by Paul Budde, published in the Cities for smart environment and energy futures book. Since we are investigating the future of cities, I thought it would be interesting to see how technological advancements enhance smart, citizen-centric applications, which with the right building blocks, lead to smart cities. You can find the article through this link . The book is available through this link . Abstract: Tomorrow’s digit...
Jan 03, 2022•13 min•Transcript available on Metacast Trailer to episode 027I for the interview with Richard Manasseh, mechanical engineer and Professor at Swinburne University of Technology. We will talk about his visions for the future of cities, his journey towards being involved in cities, urban brains, and many more.
Jan 01, 2022•3 min•Transcript available on Metacast Today would be an interview, but since it is 2021 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 when we will have many interesting topics to discover and further discuss. I am already preparing those episodes and I am very excited about what will come! So I hope you are well and also full with plans for the new year, see you then and thanks for tuning in.
Dec 29, 2021•52 sec•Ep 22•Transcript available on Metacast Summary of the article titled Smart cities and disaster resilience from 2017 by Neha Bansal, Mahua Mukherjee and Ajay Gairola in the book titled From poverty, inequality to smart city, published by Springer. Since we are investigating the future of cities, and cities are said to bare more and more natural disasters, I thought it would interesting to see how disaster resilience can be enhanced by the smart city concept. This article investigates how efficient urban planning can have a major...
Dec 27, 2021•11 min•Transcript available on Metacast Summary of the article titled Crypto cities from 2021 by Vitalik Buterin on his own blog. Since we are investigating the future of cities, I though it would be interesting to see how the ever trending crypto world and cities can work together. This article explores how and to what extent the blockchain technology and the city can collaborate and what enhancements are possible. You can find the article through this link . Additional information about city token engineering can be found thro...
Dec 20, 2021•11 min•Transcript available on Metacast Interview with Bridgette Engeler, a foresight specialist. We will talk about her visions for the future of cities, what futurists and foresight specialists do, her understanding of sustainability, and many more. Bridgette is a Senior Lecturer teaching across strategic foresight, design and innovation in Swinburne University’s Business School. She has 30 years' industry experience in brand, design and innovation strategy, and holds master degrees in Strategic Foresight and Women’s Studies. ...
Dec 15, 2021•1 hr 2 min•Transcript available on Metacast Summary of the book titled Antifragile: Things that gain from disorder from 2014 by Nassim Nicholas Taleb . This summary is based on Larry Prusak’s summary which Taleb has praised, another summary found on Farnam Steet Blog , and my own reading experience. Since we are investigating the future of cities, I though it would be interesting to see how systems can work beyond sustainability and robustness, antifragile, as Nassim Nicholas Taleb defines it. The book is about how systems can become anti...
Dec 13, 2021•10 min•Transcript available on Metacast Summary of the article titled How the car transformed society in the 20th century from 2020 by James Arbib and Tony Seba, in Rethinking Humanity – Five foundational sector disruption, the lifecycle of civilizations and the coming age of freedom, from the RethinkXTeam. Since we are investigating the future of cities, I though it would interesting be to see how the car has changed and been changing cities, as it is said to be one of the biggest problems for current urban environments. This a...
Dec 06, 2021•8 min•Transcript available on Metacast 
