
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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323R_Planning ahead for better neighborhoods: Long run evidence from Tanzania (research summary)
Are you interested in long term planning for better neighbourhoods? Our summary today works with the article titled Planning ahead for better neighborhoods: Long run evidence from Tanzania from 2017, by Guy Michaels, Dzhamilya Nigmatulina, Ferdinand Rauch, Tanner Regan, Neeraj Baruah, and Amanda Dahlstrand-Rudin, publi
Are you interested in the urban aspects not supported by market, like parks and beauty? What do you think about AI evolution? How can we retrofit the urban fabric for better futures? Trailer for episode 324 - interview with Fin Moorhouse, advanced AI researcher at Forethought. We will talk about his vision for the futu
"The whole interaction between the developing and developed cities and countries are really dynamic." Are you interested in the difference between cities in the developing and developed countries? What do you think about solutions for the right problems? How can we find the root causes? Interview with Mat Santamouris,

321R_Synergies and exacerbations – effects of warmer weather and climate change (research summary)
Are you interested in the effects of urban heat islands? Summary of the book chapter titled Synergies and exacerbations – effects of warmer weather and climate change from 2023, by Hassan Saeed Khan, Riccardo Paolini, and Matthaios Santamouris, as part of the Urban Climate Change and Heat Islands book, published by Els

322I_Trailer_Mat Santamouris, Scientia Professor at the University of New South Whales
Are you interested in the difference between cities in the developing and developed countries? What do you think about solutions for the right problems? How can we find the root causes? Trailer for episode 322 - interview with Mat Santamouris, Scientia Professor at the University of New South Whales. We will talk about
"We live in an age where the expansion of possibility is actually greater than the latency of restrain." Are you interested in reinventing ourselves for better futures? What do you think about light cities? How can we create conscious urban evolution? Interview with Glenn Drew, CEO of SQUIZZ.COM, TOTECS and Connected B