Are you interested in smart city as a platform for technological and social innovation? Our summary today works with the book chapter titled Smart cities as a platform for technological and social innovation in productivitiy, sustainability, and livability: A conceptual framework from 2021 by Hyung Min Kim, Soheil Sabri, and Anthony Kent, from the book titled Smart Cities for technological and social innovation, published by Elsevier. Anthony Kent will be the next interviewee on the podcas...
Jan 16, 2023•11 min•Ep 106•Transcript available on Metacast Interview with Richard Morrison, Industry Director, Technology Advisory APAC at AECOM. We will talk about his vision for the future of cities, transport links as veins, urban renewal, and many more. With over 23 years industry experience, Richard Morrison leads AECOM’s Industry Director, Technology Advisory APAC. A highly experienced Smart Cities advisor, Richard has led projects such as the Smart City Strategy for Bradfield, NSW’s Smart City; to Neom a Giga project in the Kingdom of Saudi...
Jan 11, 2023•35 min•Transcript available on Metacast Are you interested in city of NEOM and its history and future? Our summary today works with the book chapter titled The story of NEOM city: opportunities and challenges from 2019 by Alshimaa Aboelmakarem Farag, from the book titled New cities and community extensions in Egypt and the Middle East, published by Springer. Since we are investigating the future of cities, I thought it would be interesting to see one of the biggest new city developments and this is a great preparation for ...
Jan 09, 2023•12 min•Transcript available on Metacast Are you interested in human stigmergy and how it works? Our summary today works with the article titled A survey of environments and mechanisms for human-human stigmergy from 2005 by H. Van Dyke Parunak, presented at the Second International Workshop of E4MAS in Utrecht. Since we are investigating the future of cities, I thought it would be interesting to see the schema to analyse stigmergy among humans. This article presents the examples and suggests how the use of stigmergy can be ...
Jan 02, 2023•9 min•Transcript available on Metacast Today would be an interview, but since it is 2022 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! We will have many interesting topics to discover and further discuss in 2023. I am already preparing those episodes and I am very excited about what will come! In the meantime, if you need some food for thought check out the last research episode, No.101 about longtermi...
Dec 28, 2022•1 min•Transcript available on Metacast Are you interested in what we owe the future? Summary of the book titled What we owe the future from 2022 by William MacAskill , based on my reading experience and other summaries. Since we are investigating the future of cities, I thought it would be interesting to see what future prospects are there for the really long run and how we can influence them. This book describes the unprecedented opportunities for humanity to influence the future and its numerous generations for the bett...
Dec 26, 2022•8 min•Transcript available on Metacast Are you interested in the different meanings and implementations for smart cities from different viewpoints? What do you think about the solutions smart cities could provide? How can we bridge the gap between the different approaches? This episode is the first panel discussion where I invited back previous interviewees to answer some questions together and let them discuss the different viewpoints. The panelists were Gavin Cotterill, Bridgette Engeler, Luke Housego, Daniel Prohasky, and Li...
Dec 19, 2022•38 min•Transcript available on Metacast Are you interested in the citizen engagement in urban areas and its effects? What do you think about the need for updating our educational systems? How can professionals check their egos? Interview with Noel Tighe, architect and associate director at Denton Corker Marshall. We will talk about his vision for the future of cities, the citizen’s role, educational reforms, giving back to the environment, and many more. Noel Tighe is an Associate Director at Denton Corker Marshall. Registered in the ...
Dec 14, 2022•37 min•Transcript available on Metacast Are you interested in how to create social capital for the 21st century? Our summary today works with the article titled Building social capital: A learning agenda for the twenty-first century from 1997 by Patricia A. Wilson, published in the Urban Studies journal. Since we are investigating the future of cities, I thought it would be interesting to see how to create the so many times required social capital – which will also be partially our topic with Noel Tighe, the next interview...
Dec 12, 2022•12 min•Transcript available on Metacast Are you interested in smart cities to enhance quality of life for urban inhabitants? Summary of the article titled A multilevel method to assess and design the renovation and integration of smart cities from 2015 by B. Mattoni, F. Gugliermetti, and F. Bisegna, published in the Sustainable Cities and Societies journal. Since we are investigating the future of cities, I thought it would be interesting to see a smart city approach which tries to be holistic but specific. This article pr...
Dec 05, 2022•11 min•Transcript available on Metacast Are you interested in creating proper urban connections? What do you think is the architect’s job in the urban fabric? What kind of approach is needed for the future of cities? Interview with Chris Maher, an architect and city planner and the director and national portfolio leader for urban development at Hames Sharley. We will talk about his vision for the future of cities, urban vital energy, distinct urban characteristics, and many more. The last 30 years has seen Chris Maher working in archi...
Nov 30, 2022•37 min•Transcript available on Metacast Are you interested in social housing quality and its effects on the tenants’ life? Our summary today works with the article titled Housing as a social determinant of health and wellbeing: developing an empirically-informed realist theoretical framework from 2020 by Steve Rolfe, Lisa Garnham, Jon Godwin, Isobel Anderson, Pete Seaman, and Cam Donaldson, published in the BMC Public Health, which is part of Springer Nature. Since we are investigating the future of cities, I thought it wo...
Nov 28, 2022•11 min•Transcript available on Metacast Are you interested in the three main domains involved in smart cities? Our summary today works with the article titled Defining smart city: A conceptual framework based on keyword analysis from 2014 by Farnaz Mosannenzadeh and Daniele Vettorato, published in the Journal of Land Use, Mobility and Environment. Since we are investigating the future of cities, I thought it would be interesting to see the smart city concepts’ keyword analysis and its results. This article presents the thr...
Nov 21, 2022•10 min•Transcript available on Metacast Are you interested in interaction design? Do you think we have the knowledge to save the world? What is the purpose of academic research? Interview with Jeni Paay, professor of human-computer interaction design and the leader of Centre for Design Innovation at Swinburne University of Technology. We will talk about her vision for the future of cities, interaction design, the digital city and twins, the need for discovering uncomfortable truths, and many more. Professor Jeni Paay is a leading inte...
Nov 16, 2022•29 min•Ep 93•Transcript available on Metacast Are you interested in the connection between interaction design and the city? Our summary today works with the book chapter titled The city as an urban interaction design platform from 2014 by Martin Brynskov, and the book’s title is Urban Interaction Design: Towards City Making. Since we are investigating the future of cities, I thought it would be interesting to see how interaction design can be part of cities because we will talk about it in detail with the next interviewee, Professor J...
Nov 14, 2022•11 min•Transcript available on Metacast Are you interested in contemporary urban concepts, like sustainable and resilient city, and their political premises? Summary of the article titled The political premises of contemporary urban concepts: the global city, the sustainable city, the resilient city, the creative city, and the smart city from 2018 by Tali Hatuka, Issachar Rosen-Zvi, Michael Birnhack, Eran Toch, and Hadas Zur, published in the Planning Theory and Practice journal. Since we are investigating the future of ci...
Nov 07, 2022•14 min•Ep 91•Transcript available on Metacast Interview with Matthew McCartney, professor of development economics and researcher at the Charter Cities Institute. We will talk about his vision for the future of cities, the pace of urbanisation, economic concepts in urban areas, intratrade in Africa, and many more. Professor Matthew McCartney spent twenty years as an academic at the School of African and Oriental Studies, University of London (2000-2011), and at the University of Oxford (2011-21). He has been a visiting Professor at Universi...
Nov 02, 2022•1 hr 3 min•Ep 90•Transcript available on Metacast Are you interested in Africa and its opportunities with railway? Summary of two blog posts titled: African Railways could go bankrupt but this is not necessarily a bad thing and It will be the best of times, it will be the worst of times: thinking about the contemporary African railway mania from 2022 by Matthew McCartney published on the Charter Cities Institute website. Matthew will be the next interviewee and this episode provides some background information on some topics we will discu...
Oct 31, 2022•10 min•Transcript available on Metacast Are you interested in sustainable solutions but unsure about their economic benefits? Summary of the article titled The costs ad benefits of environmental sustainability from 2021 by Paul Ekins and Dimitri Zenghelis, published in the Sustainability Science journal. Since we are investigating the future of cities, I thought it would be interesting to see how the sustainable solutions compare to their financial investments. This article presents that no conventional cost-benefit analys...
Oct 24, 2022•13 min•Transcript available on Metacast Are you interested in landscape architecture, its potential to tackle climate change, and how to connect regional and urban areas more? Interview with Paul Brookbanks, a principal landscape architect at spiire. We talk about his vision for the future of cities, landscape architecture, population increase and the resulting innovation, holistic views, and many more. Paul Brookbanks is an Australian design leader with extensive public and private sector experience in landscape architect...
Oct 19, 2022•40 min•Ep 87•Transcript available on Metacast Are you interested in landscape sustainability science and its application? Summary of the editorial article titled Advancing landscape sustainability science: theoretical foundation and synergies with innovation in methodology, design and application from 2020 by Chuan Liao, Jiangxiao Qiu, Bin Chen, Deliang Chen, Bojie Fu, Matei Georgescu, Bhunyang He, G. Darrel Jenerette, Xia Li, Xiaoyan Li, Xin Li, Bading Qiuying, Peijun Shi, and Janguo Wu, published in the Landscape Ecology journal.&nb...
Oct 17, 2022•11 min•Transcript available on Metacast Are you interested in how the concept of stigmergy applies to human cooperation? Summary of the article titled Stigmergy in human practice: Coordination in construction work from 2012 by Lars Rune Christensen published in the Cognitive Systems Research journal. Since we are investigating the future of cities, I thought it would be interesting to see how the concept of stigmergy, the concept of coordination coming from the study of bugs translates to the study of humans. This article ...
Oct 10, 2022•10 min•Transcript available on Metacast Interview with Jacek Urbanowicz, an architect at COX Architecture and co-founder of Tunarch.org, architecture discovery platform that focuses on helping clients find the right designer through the contents of their work. We talk about his vision for the future of cities, the urban representation of Maslow’s pyramid, democratised decision-making, and many more. Jacek Urbanowicz is a Melbourne-based, design technology specialist, registered architect with a decade of professional experience ...
Oct 06, 2022•44 min•Transcript available on Metacast Summary of the article titled Operationalizing a concept: The systematic review of composite indicator building for measuring community disaster resilience from 2017 by A. Asadzadeh, T. Kötter, P. Salehi, and J. Birkmann, published in the International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction. Since we are investigating the future of cities, I thought it would be interesting to see how to build indicators for an overarching community disaster resilience assessment. This article introduces an ass...
Oct 03, 2022•13 min•Transcript available on Metacast Trailer to episode 084I for the interview with Jacek Urbanowicz, an architect at COX Architecture and co-founder of Tunarch.org, architecture discovery platform that focuses on helping clients find the right designer through the contents of their work. We talk about his vision for the future of cities, the urban representation of Maslow’s pyramid, democratised decision-making, and many more.
Sep 28, 2022•3 min•Transcript available on Metacast Summary of the article titled Beyond defining the smart city – Meeting top-down and bottom-up approaches in the middle from 2014 by Jonas Breuer, Nils Walravens, and Pieter Ballon, presented at the Eight International Conference INPUT 2014 titled Smart City – Planning for Energy, Transportation and Sustainability, and published in the Journal of Land Use, Mobility and Environment. Since we are investigating the future of cities, I thought it would be interesting to see an investigation int...
Sep 26, 2022•12 min•Ep 82•Transcript available on Metacast Interview with Nataly Arevalo, an environmental designer, urban researcher, and lecturer. We talk about her vision for the future of cities, environmental behaviour research, human sensing and its effects of psychology, and many more. Nataly is a PhD in environmental designer, urban researcher, and lecturer. She applies evidence from environmental behaviour research into architecture and urban design. Her inspiration to pursue the field of environmental behaviour was inspired through her p...
Sep 21, 2022•30 min•Transcript available on Metacast Summary of the article titled Functionality between the size and indicators of smart cities: A research challenge with policy implications from 2018 by Kamila Borsekova, Samuel Koróny, Anna Vaňová, and Katarína Vitálišová, published in the Cities journal. Since we are investigating the future of cities, I thought it would be interesting to see an investigation into the connection between smart cities and city sizes. This article identifies the most significant indicators of smart cities th...
Sep 19, 2022•12 min•Transcript available on Metacast The celebration of the first 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. Stay tuned for a special announcement at the end of the episode! You can find the shownotes through this link and the transcript through this link. Head over to the wtf4cities.com website for more information, or get in...
Sep 11, 2022•8 min•Transcript available on Metacast Interview with Ammon Beyerle, architect, urban designer, and lecturer. We talk about their vision for the future of cities, participatory design, the 3 ecologies, affordability, and many more. Ammon Beyerle is a practicing architect, urban designer, and academic with a speciality in participatory design. They recently completed a PhD in participation in architecture and urban design (2018) ; and have 18 years teaching experience across a broad range of design, theory and technical subjects...
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