Nobel Laureates met recently in Hong Kong to sign a memorandum calling for cities to help guard against climate change. As the most creative places on the planet, big cities are the perfect place to meet this challenge.
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Emerging research looks at new ways to measure the ecological footprint of cities, a key step to making them more environmentally benign and perhaps more livable.
Voluntary programs are all the rage. From ratcheting up cybersecurity to fighting obesity, firms in the United States and elsewhere voluntarily make pledges to do better than governmental regulation. Firms…
The world’s population could reach almost 10 billion by 2050. Most people will live in cities. To accommodate an additional 3 billion people, we’ll need to build the equivalent of one new city, that can…
My future city contains flying cars, shimmering architecture and vertical parks. Yours is probably different, but whether you’ve thought about it or not you’ll definitely have some conception, some image…
Ten themes shape the dilemmas, challenges and opportunities for the 21st-century city. Each relates to how we live and shape our places. The tradition of urban living, of urbanity, focuses both on the…
Future cities, where infrastructure adapts to our needs, offer are an enticing prospect. But who is in the driving seat as these urban developments crop up around the world? We need to make sure that the…
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Futurist, University of the Sunshine Coast
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Professor of Architecture and Urbanism, Manchester Metropolitan University
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Senior Lecturer in Design (People, Places, Products), Lancaster University
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Laureate Professor Emeritus, The Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity
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Professor of Data Science, Bournemouth University
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Professor of Urban Creative Design, Beijing DeTao Masters Academy
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Professor of Intelligent Engineering Systems, Nottingham Trent University
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Emeritus Professor of Urban & Regional Planning, University of Canberra
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Lecturer in Operations Management, University of Leeds
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Professor of Organisation Studies, University of Bristol
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Professor Sustainability and Urban Governance, RMIT University
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Executive Director, Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat; Visiting Professor of Architecture and Urban Planning, Tongji University Shanghai; Research Professor of Architecture, Illinois Institute of Technology
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Deputy Director, Australian Urban Design Research Centre, The University of Western Australia
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Assistant Professor of Environmental Governance, Australian National University
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Professor Emeritus of Public Policy, University of Maryland, Baltimore County