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A growing series of interviews bringing together diverse, sharp and polyhedral voices shaping the present and future of cities
«I see AI as a way to make our cities behave like nature»
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«Urban innovation takes imagination and political courage»
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«Heritage is the foundation for resilience in cities»
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«It's incredibly important to plant trees close to where people are»
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«Investment in transport systems must include the concept of care»
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«We're seeing a ‘99% to 1%’ inequality in many cities»
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«When you ride a bike, the city opens itself to you»
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«Cities don't think about gender enough»
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«It is more important than ever to build the foundations of urban resilience»
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«Documentary photography can be a powerful weapon of social justice»
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«Vienna and Singapore tackle housing affordability most efficiently»
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«Access to data is becoming less and less and less open»
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«Technology isn’t the goal — it’s a tool to accelerate better lives for people»
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«Public space has to enable the idea of community»
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«The informal city is a fundamental part of urban life»
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«Second cities are becoming attractive for people and resources»
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«Innovation is the process by which we make governments better»
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«We need the right to the city more than ever»
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«Urban form has a structural impact on the quality of life of citizens»
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«We want people to feel that they don’t have to leave their neighborhood to live in a better one»
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«Resilience is our ability to thrive in the face of challenges and change»
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«Autonomous vehicles and AI will help us to optimize urban metabolism»
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«We’re using a video game to crowdsource urban design ideas from everyday people»
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«You have to address urban issues based on natural boundaries, not political ones»
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«Scientists and city planners cannot stay siloed»
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«Latin american cities face one main challenge: inequality»
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«Each city pioneers something — even if that simply means confronting its own challenges»
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«Well-being is physiological, psychological and spatial — and it can be measured»
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«Smart cities differ from one continent to another»
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«Working in a network is an an explosion of knowledge»
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«Environmental problems have an impact on social problems»
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«Barcelona is a city that knows how to reinvent itself»
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«Asia is where the most interesting things are happening»
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«AI can help mitigate climate change, but we need to address its sustainability»
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«Inclusion it’s not just looking at ramps»
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«In the coming years, urban innovation will be strongly shaped by China and Southeast Asia»
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«We need to provide our communities with opportunities to be engaged
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«Data-driven cities bring benefits and vulnerabilities»
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«If cities work for the most vulnerable, they can work for everyone»
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«The way cities are organized is 200 years old»
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«You can’t talk about a 'benchmark city' without talking about New York»
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«The Covid-19 Pandemic Provided African Cities With an Opportunity to Shift the Mindset»
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«Disruption means deciding outside the box»
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Technology and Innovation in Post-pandemic Cities: How Will Priorities Change? | A Conversation With Global Experts (II)
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How Will Covid-19 Change the Way Cities Work? | A Conversation With Global Experts (I)
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«Good urbanization requires a collective effort»
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«We need to make cities follow the rules of natural systems»
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«To understand the future of cities, we should turn our eyes to villages»
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«Teenagers will be longer on the planet than those who tell them what they should think»
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