Connection is key: lessons from the Africa Urban Infrastructure Summit
Relationship building and citizen engagement are vital for ensuring the sustainable growth of African cities in the future. Urban Africa’s Ifeoma Ebo reports on the Africa Urban Infrastructure Summit held in Cape Town in April.
Imagine living in a future New York, Copenhagen or London
A film exploring future scenarios of city life in London, New York and Copenhagen. It looks at urbanization trends challenging cities around the world and solutions featured in the Crystal
Future Cities: Re-imagining the City critically (Part 2)
Re-imagining the city can be a provocation to reconsider and expand the range of possibilities for a city in the future and could open the door to a fundamentally critical view of the existing city. Peter Marcuse, a Professor at Columbia University explores.
Future Cities: Re-imagining the City critically (Part 1)
Re-imagining the city can be a provocation to reconsider and expand the range of possibilities for a city in the future and could open the door to a fundamentally critical view of the existing city. Peter Marcuse, a Professor at Columbia University explores.
Cities without borders?
What can the founding of ancient Rome teach us about the future? Trevor Sudano hypothesizes about the trajectory of boundaries and how evolving cities should respond.
Children draw their visions for Future Cities
What do children see in their future cities? Grade 5 pupils at a Primary School in Pretoria share their ideas.
6 TED talks envisioning the future of cities
6 inspirational TED talks which help us rethink, re-imagine and envision our future cities.
The future of Gulf Cities
An expert hearing on regenerative urban development in the Gulf taking place in Dubai? Isn’t that a contradiction in itself? Well, 45 international participants from politics, practitioners, academia, business and civil society concluded after three days of intense discussion: there is no better place to discuss the future of Gulf cities than Dubai.
World Urban Forum 6: Naples, Italy
[ September 1, 2012 to September 7, 2012. ] The World Urban Forum comes to Naples, Italy from 1 – 7 September, with the theme “The Urban Future”
Media Release: Sky Bridges Policy valuable, but priority?
31 May 2012
It is with some surprise, that Future Cape Town notes the City of Cape Town’s draft Sky Bridge Policy issued by the Spatial Planning and Urban Design Department. Future Cape Town offers its qualified support for this policy, noting that the following issues need to be addressed.
While a valuable policy to have we feel that, in light [...]
