What is The Future for Cities?

Updated: 28 Jul 2025 • 443 episodes
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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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Are you interested in stakeholder opinions for smart cities? Summary of the article titled What do people want in a smart city? Exploring the stakeholders’ opinions, priorities, and perceived barriers in a medium-sized city in the United States from 2021, by Cristina Del-Real, Chandra Ward, and Mina Sartipi, published

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Are you interested in the proactive nature of smart cities? What do you think about the need for infrastructure to create adaptability? How can we utilise public-private-academic partnerships for better urban futures? Trailer for episode 346 - interview with Dr Mina Sartipi, founding director of the Center for Urban In

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"We've got to start making projects shovel-worthy, not shovel-ready." Are you interested in digital transformation? What do you think about the phrase: “we’ve got to start making projects shovel-worthy instead of shovel-ready”? How can we find and create the magic we’re looking for in the work we’re avoiding? Interview

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Are you interested in the concept of sponge cities? Summary of the white paper titled Creating sponge cities to tackle surface water flooding from 2025, by Mark Coates and Neal Edmondson, published on the Infrastructure Policy Advancement website. This is a great preparation to our next interview with Mark Coates in ep

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Are you interested in digital transformation? What do you think about the phrase: “we’ve got to start making projects shovel-worthy instead of shovel-ready”? How can we find and create the magic we’re looking for in the work we’re avoiding? Trailer for episode 344 - interview with Mark Coates, Vice President of Infrast

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"In some ways, maybe what we're all doing now is separations with a spatial apparatus." Are you interested in spatial language? What do you think about the ever present urbanism concept? How can we leverage space as an opportunity? Interview with Keller Easterling, an architect, writer, and the Enid Storm Dwyer Profess

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