What is The Future for Cities?
252 episodes - English - Latest episode: 1 day ago -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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096I_Chris Maher, an architect and city planner and the director and national portfolio leader for urban development at Hames Sharley
November 30, 2022 22:00 - 37 minutes - 51.5 MBAre 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...
095R_Housing as a social determinant of health and wellbeing: developing an empirically-informed realist theoretical framework (research summary)
November 28, 2022 22:00 - 10 minutes - 14.8 MBAre 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 would ...
094R_Defining smart city: A conceptual framework based on keyword analysis (research summary)
November 21, 2022 22:00 - 9 minutes - 13.8 MBAre 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 three m...
093I_Jeni Paay, professor of human-computer interaction design and the leader of Centre for Design Innovation at Swinburne University of Technology
November 16, 2022 22:00 - 28 minutes - 39.3 MBAre 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 leadin...
092R_The city as an urban interaction design platform (book chapter summary)
November 14, 2022 22:00 - 10 minutes - 14.9 MBAre 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 ...
091R_The political premises of contemporary urban concepts: the global city, the sustainable city, the resilient city, the creative city, and the smart city (research summary)
November 07, 2022 22:00 - 13 minutes - 19.2 MBAre 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 cities...
090I_Matthew McCartney, professor of development economics and researcher at the Charter Cities Institute
November 02, 2022 22:00 - 1 hour - 86.4 MBInterview 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 Uni...
089R_African Railways could go bankrupt but this is not necessarily a bad thing & It will be the best of times, it will be worst of times: thinking about contemporary African railway mania (summary)
October 31, 2022 22:00 - 9 minutes - 13.2 MBAre 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 disc...
088R_The costs ad benefits of environmental sustainability (research summary)
October 24, 2022 22:00 - 13 minutes - 18.6 MBAre 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 analysis i...
087I_Paul Brookbanks, principal landscape architect at Spiire
October 19, 2022 22:00 - 39 minutes - 54.4 MBAre 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 architecture ...
086R_Advancing landscape sustainability science: theoretical foundation and synergies with innovation in methodology, design and application (research summary)
October 17, 2022 22:00 - 10 minutes - 15.1 MBAre 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. ...
085R_Stigmergy in human practice: Coordination in construction work (research summary)
October 10, 2022 22:00 - 9 minutes - 13.2 MBAre 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 comp...
084I_Jacek Urbanowicz, an architect at COX Architecture and co-founder of Tunarch.org
October 06, 2022 08:00 - 44 minutes - 60.5 MBInterview 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 ...
083R_Operationalising a concept: The systematic review of composite indicator building for measuring community disaster resilience (research summary)
October 03, 2022 22:00 - 12 minutes - 17.8 MBSummary 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...
084I_Trailer_084I_Jacek Urbanowicz, an architect at COX Architecture and co-founder of Tunarch.org
September 28, 2022 23:00 - 2 minutes - 4.11 MBTrailer 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.
082R_Beyond defining the smart city – Meeting top-down and bottom-up approaches in the middle (research summary)
September 26, 2022 23:00 - 12 minutes - 17 MBSummary 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...
081I_Nataly Arevalo, environmental designer, urban researcher, and lecturer
September 21, 2022 23:00 - 29 minutes - 41 MBInterview 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...
080R_Functionality between the size and indicators of smart cities: A research challenge with policy implications (research summary)
September 19, 2022 23:00 - 11 minutes - 16.3 MBSummary 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...
079B_#1 Birthday Special - summary of the WTF's first year
September 11, 2022 23:00 - 7 minutes - 10.9 MBThe 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...
078I_Ammon Beyerle, participatory architect, urban design theorist, and teacher
September 07, 2022 23:00 - 47 minutes - 64.7 MBInterview 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 ...
077R_Steering into the Skid – Arbitraging human and artificial intelligences to augment the design process (research summary)
September 05, 2022 23:00 - 11 minutes - 16.5 MBSummary of the article titled Steering into the Skid – Arbitraging human and artificial intelligences to augment the design process from 2020 by Geoff Kimm and Mark Burry, presented at the 40th Annual Conference of The Association for Computer Aided Design in Architecture and published in their proceedings Volume 1: Technical papers, keynote conversations. Since we are investigating the future of cities, I thought it would be interesting to see how artificial intelligence can be noted as a...
076R_Smart innovative cities: The impact of smart city policies on urban innovation (research summary)
August 29, 2022 23:00 - 10 minutes - 15.1 MBSummary of the article titled Smart innovative cities: The impact of smart city policies on urban innovation from 2018 by Andrea Caragliu and Chiara F. Del Bo, published in the Technological Forecasting & Social Change journal. Since we are investigating the future of cities, I thought it would be interesting to see whether smart city initiatives increase the likelihood of innovation in high-tech, ICT and technology with patent application. This article investigates European metropolitan a...
075I_Gavin Cotterill, consulting director of the Cohesive Group's Asia Pacific Digital Practice and co-chair of the Smart Cities Council Digital Twin Task group
August 24, 2022 23:00 - 33 minutes - 46.1 MBInterview with Gavin Cotterill, consulting director of the Cohesive Group's Asia Pacific Digital Practice and co-chair of the Smart Cities Council Digital Twin Task group. We talk about his vision for the future of cities, the smart cities and digital twins, innovation, and many more. As a Consulting Director within the Asia Pacific Digital practice, Gavin Cotterill helps large private infrastructure and government organisations in transforming them from an analogue organisation to a data ...
074R_Resilient urban planning: major principles and criteria (research summary)
August 22, 2022 23:00 - 9 minutes - 12.6 MBSummary of the article titled Resilient urban planning: major principles and criteria from 2014 by Ayyoob Sharifi and Yoshiki Yamagata presented at the 6thInternational Conference on Applied Energy, and then published in Energy Procedia. Since we are investigating the future of cities, I thought it would be interesting to see the implications of the resilience concept for the sustainability of urban areas. This article proposes a conceptual framework to assess resilience and urban sustaina...
073R_Smart communities initiatives (research summary)
August 15, 2022 23:00 - 10 minutes - 14.1 MBSummary of the article titled Smart communities initiatives from 2004 by Helena Lindskog presented at the 3rd ISOneWorld Conference, 2004. Since we are investigating the future of cities, I thought it would be interesting to see different smart community approaches. This article compares these different approaches and presents how the co-operation between countries, regions and smart communities functions. You can find the article through this link. Abstract: Information Communication Te...
072I_Dr Tamás Mezős, architect, engineer, architectural historian
August 10, 2022 23:00 - 31 minutes - 43.7 MBInterview with Dr Tamás Mezős, architect, engineer, architectural historian, among others. We will talk about his vision for the future of cities, building archaeology, history of cities, and many more. Dr Tamás Mezős graduated as a civil engineer and an architect in Budapest and since then has collected more qualifications than one could count. Tamás specifically focuses on architectural and monumental conservation, currently working on multiple projects across Europe. He also tought gener...
071R_Towards intelligently sustainable cities? – From intelligent and knowledge city programmes to the achievement of urban sustainability (research summary)
August 08, 2022 23:00 - 12 minutes - 17 MBSummary of the article titled Towards intelligently sustainable cities? – From intelligent and knowledge city programmes to the achievement of urban sustainability from 2013 by Vittorio Gargiulo Morelli, Margot Weijnen, Ellen Van Bueren, Ivo Wenzler, Marke de Reuver, and Luca Salvati, 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 how intelligent and knowledge city programmes can cont...
070R_Citizen-centred big data analysis-driven governance intelligence framework for smart cities (research summary)
August 01, 2022 17:00 - 13 minutes - 18 MBSummary of the article titled Citizen-centred big data analysis-driven governance intelligence framework for smart cities from 2018 by Jingrui Ju, Luning Liu, and Yuqiang Feng, published in the Telecommunications Policy journal. Since we are investigating the future of cities, I thought it would be interesting to see an investigation into citizen-centred big data with data-to-decision research from concept to operation. This article proposes a framework for the use citizen-centred big data...
069I_Dr Éva Kereszty, doctor, teacher and forensic medical expert
July 27, 2022 23:00 - 45 minutes - 63 MBInterview with Dr Eva Kereszty, doctor, teacher and forensic medical expert, among others. We talk about her vision for the future of cities, urban services, holistic thinking, expanded disability meaning, and many more. Dr Eva Kereszty graduated from Semmelweis University with forensic medicine and insurance medicine and from Eötvös Loránd University of Budapest with administrative law specialisations. She spent time in the US and various European countries in short-term fellowships. Eva ...
068R_Measuring urban sustainability: the potential and pitfalls of city rankings (research summary)
July 25, 2022 23:00 - 12 minutes - 16.6 MBSummary of the article titled Measuring urban sustainability: the potential and pitfalls of city rankings from 2012 by Phil McManus, published in the Australian Geographer journal. Since we are investigating the future of cities, I thought it would be interesting to see an investigation into Sydney’s sustainability. This article discusses how Sydney could become more sustainable and identifies why normative urban sustainability rankings should be recognised for their potential while simult...
067R_Theoretical underpinnings of regenerative sustainability (research summary)
July 18, 2022 23:00 - 12 minutes - 17.7 MBSummary of the article titled Theoretical underpinnings of regenerative sustainability from 2015 by John Robinson and Raymond Cole, 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 regenerative sustainability and regenerative development and design. This article discusses the relationship between regenerative sustainability and regenerative design. You can find the art...
066I_Johan Tijssen, director of HempBlock Australia
July 13, 2022 23:00 - 29 minutes - 40.4 MBInterview with Johan Tijssen, the director of HempBlock Australia. We will talk about his vision for the future of cities, the city itself, urban reevaluation, and many more. Originating from Holland, multi-lingual Johan Tijssen is a key figure in the development of the hemp building industry in Australia. He has developed certification, manuals and training programs to meet the growing interest and demand for hemp as a sustainable building material. Johan is passionate about protecting th...
065R_Smart cities concept and Challenges – Bases for the assessment of smart city projects (research summary)
July 11, 2022 23:00 - 10 minutes - 14.1 MBSummary of the article titled Smart cities concept and Challenges – Bases for the assessment of smart city projects from 2016 by Andres Monzon, published at the International Conference on Smart Cities and Green ICT Systems. Since we are investigating the future of cities, I thought it would be interesting to see a smart city assessment tool with city challenges and their available possibilities. This article introduces a project guide as a tool for implementing smart city projects that ef...
064R_The network state (article summary)
July 05, 2022 00:00 - 11 minutes - 16.1 MBSummary of the article titled The network state from 2021 by Balaji Srinivasan, usually known as Balaji, published on the 1729 website. Since we are investigating the future of cities, I thought it would be interesting to see a possible future state. This article introduces the network state, what it means and how one can be started. You can find the article through this link. You can find the transcript through this link. What wast the most interesting part for you? What questions did ...
063I_Lilly Ryan, lead security specialist at Thoughtworks
June 29, 2022 23:00 - 50 minutes - 70.1 MBInterview with Lilly Ryan, lead security specialist at Thoughtworks. We talk about her vision for the future of cities, safety and security, public and private spaces, the ghost in the machine, and many more. Lilly Ryan is a lead security specialist at Thoughtworks, and also serves on the board of Digital Rights Watch. Lilly has delivered presentations across the globe on web application security, privacy education, and the history of technology-related issues. You can catch her talking sec...
062R_Urban Eutopia vs smart city (research summary)
June 27, 2022 23:00 - 8 minutes - 11.8 MBSummary of the article titled Urban Eutopia vs smart city from 2015 by Marina Montuori, published in the Festival Architettura Magazine. Since we are investigating the future of cities, I thought it would be interesting to see specific design actions based on the use of reversible, low-tech and low-impact building systems of urban regeneration. This article introduces integrated procedures to focus on adaptive maintenance to update architectural objects in order to restore high typological...
061R_Conceptualising smart city with dimensions of technology, people and institutions (research summary)
June 20, 2022 23:00 - 12 minutes - 17.3 MBSummary of the article titled Conceptualising smart city with dimensions of technology, people and institutions from 2011 by Taewoo Nam and Theresa Prado, published at the 12th Annual International Conference on Digital Government Research. Since we are investigating the future of cities, I thought it would be interesting to see their collected core factors for establishing a smart city based on contemporary examples. This article offers strategic principles aligning to the three main dime...
060I_Gala Camacho Ferrari, data scientist and director at Diagonal Works
June 15, 2022 23:00 - 54 minutes - 74.9 MBInterview with Gala Camacho Ferrari, data scientist and director at Diagonal Works. We talk about her vision for the future of cities, steward ownership, responsible technologies, collaboration, and many more. Gala is a mathematician and programmer, with a background in education, optimisation and all-things data. She is a Data Scientist and Director at Diagonal, where she is responsible for data science and built-environment analytics. Gala's experience is in strategic technical leadershi...
059R_Smart city and horizon ... beyond (every) "hypocrisy" (research summary)
June 13, 2022 23:00 - 10 minutes - 14.2 MBSummary of the article titled Smart city and horizon – beyond every hypocrisy from 2015 by Paola Scala, published in the Festival Architettura Magazine. Since we are investigating the future of cities, I thought it would be interesting to see real opportunities represented by smart city as the theme of architectural research more aware of its role and more accepting its contemporary challenges. This article advocates for research that is not seduced by fashion slogans and does not escape i...
058R_An adaptive learning process for developing and applying sustainability indicators with local communities (research summary)
June 06, 2022 23:00 - 11 minutes - 16.1 MBSummary of the article titled An adaptive learning process for developing and applying sustainability indicators with local communities from 2005 by Mark Reed, Evan Fraser, and Andrew J. Dougill, published in the Ecological Economics journal by Science Direct. Since we are investigating the future of cities, I thought it would be interesting to see an investigation into sustainability measurements and indicators from top-down and bottom-up perspectives. This article proposes a process comb...
057I_Amélie Uhrig, a climate change and sustainability advisor and manager
June 01, 2022 23:00 - 43 minutes - 60.3 MBInterview with Amélie Uhrig, a climate change and sustainability advisor and manager. We talk about her vision for the future of cities, sustainability, city as an organism, differences among the names for climate change, and many more. Amélie Uhrig is a Manager at Point Advisory, a sustainability consultancy headquartered in Melbourne. She has over five years of experience in the climate change and broader sustainability sector and specialises on nature-based solutions for climate mitigati...
056R_A place-based model for understanding community resilience to natural disasters (research summary)
May 30, 2022 23:00 - 12 minutes - 17.2 MBSummary of the article titled A place-based model for understanding community resilience to natural disasters from 2008 by Susan Cutter, Lindsey Barnes, Melissa Berry, Christopher Burton, Elijah Evans, Eric Tate, and Jennifer Webb, published in the Global Environmental Change journal. Since we are investigating the future of cities, I thought it would be interesting to see a framework for disaster resilience of place model. This article investigates and proposes a comparative assessment fo...
055R_Smartness that matters: Towards a comprehensive and human-centred characterisation of smart cities (research summary)
May 23, 2022 23:00 - 11 minutes - 15.7 MBSummary of the article titled Smartness that matters: Towards a comprehensive and human-centred characterisation of smart cities from 2016 by Alexander Prado Lara, Eduardo Moreira Da Costa, Thiago Zilinscki Furlani, and Tan Yigitcanlar, published in the Journal of Open Innovation: Technology, Market and Complexity. Since we are investigating the future of cities, I thought it would be interesting to see a collection of smart city definitions and their deficiencies. This article investigate...
054I_Dr Rolland Vida, the Head of High Speed Networks Laboratory
May 18, 2022 23:00 - 36 minutes - 50 MBInterview with Dr Rolland Vida, the Head of High Speed Networks Laboratory. We talk about his vision for the future of cities, second and third rate effects of smaller urban changes, the future of education, and many more. Dr. Rolland Vida graduated in Computer Science at Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj, Romania, where he also obtained a BSc degree in European Studies. He obtained his PhD in Computer Networks at Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France, in 2003. He is currently an Asso...
053R_Smart Telki – Answering Citizen Demand in the Outskirts of Budapest (research summary)
May 16, 2022 23:00 - 9 minutes - 13.2 MBSummary of the article titled Smart Telki – Answering citizen demand in the outskirts of Budapest from 2020 by Bence Majoros, Marcell Molnár, Tamás Sajti, and Rolland Vida, presented at the 2020 IEEE International Smart Cities Conference. I will interview Rolland Vida in the next episode, number 054I, 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 global solutions can work in diff...
052R_Introduction: Innovation and identity in next-generation smart cities (research summary)
May 09, 2022 23:00 - 12 minutes - 17.2 MBSummary of the article titled Introduction: Innovation and identity in next-generation smart cities from 2018 by Hoon Han and Scott Hawken, published in City, Culture and Society journal. Since we are investigating the future of cities, I thought it would be interesting to see why it is important to critically consider urban identity and culture as central to the smart city. This article challenges smart city concepts from the urban identity, quality and value at a range of scales and geog...
051I_Laura Summers, design engineer
May 04, 2022 23:00 - 44 minutes - 61.6 MBInterview with Laura Summers, design engineer. We will talk about her vision for the future of cities, urban revitalisation, the fear-FOMO pendulum, and many more. Laura is a multi-disciplinary designer researching technology ethics and building tools to promote fair machine learning. She's the founder of Debias AI and is the human behind Ethics Litmus Tests, fairXiv, the Melbourne Fair ML reading group. Most recently she released the open-source library "Sweet Summer Child Score", a risk ...
050R_Towards sustainable urban communities (research summary)
May 02, 2022 23:00 - 10 minutes - 14 MBSummary of the article titled Towards sustainable urban communities from 2012 by Appu Haapio published in the Environmental Impact Assessment Review journal. Since we are investigating the future of cities, I thought it would be interesting to see comparison of the internationally well-known sustainability assessment tools, BREEAM Communities, CASBEE for Urban Development, and LEED for Neighbourhood Development. This article investigates and compares these assessment tools with regards to ...
049R_A multiple-attribute decision making-based approach for smart city rankings design (research summary)
April 25, 2022 23:00 - 12 minutes - 17.4 MBSummary of the article titled A multiple-attribute decision making-based approach for smart city rankings design from 2018 by Soledad Escolar, Félix Villanueva, Maria Santofimia, David Villa, Xavier del Toro, and Juan Carlos López published in the Technological Forecasting & Social Change journal. Since we are investigating the future of cities, I thought it would be interesting to see city-comparisons regarding smart cities. This article investigates and compares smart city rankings and s...
048I_Professor Hussein Dia, the Chair of Civil Engineering at Swinburne University of Technology
April 20, 2022 23:00 - 43 minutes - 59.9 MBInterview with Professor Hussein Dia, the Chair of Civil Engineering at Swinburne University of Technology. We will talk about his vision for the future of cities, future urban mobility, city states, and many more. Hussein Dia is a professor of Future Urban Mobility in the School of Engineering at Swinburne University of Technology, currently serving as the Chair of the Department of Civil and Construction Engineering and the Program Leader of the Smart Cities Research Institute's Future U...