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Masterplanning of the City 2050

With more than 9 billion people living in cities by 2050, urban planning will have to go through a major change. The Fourth Industrial Revolution is quickly unfolding with the evolution of IoT, artificial intelligence, and robotics, altering the way we move, live, work and play in our artificial environment. We are witnessing a new era of both great potential and grave perils to humankind

Designing the cities of tomorrow

The city is for places of transactions. How we plan and design cities in the future is not a question of how they might look, but also about how they might be laid out as patterns of buildings and spatial connections that can deliver the social, economic and environmental value to create place. We believe that the way people move, shop and communicate around the urban environment is primed for dramatic change, and the individual traveller is at the heart of this evolution. Whilst smart cities should promise to create important business opportunities that contribute urban development, operating as one big data-driven ecosystem, it is essential to develop ways of understanding data focusing on building equitable cities – developing a science of place in which space, as the integrating framework of cities, can be measured as new technologies impact the way we experience the city. If mobility is the lifeblood of our cities that the 20thcentury city saw as the ‘city of movement’, data is the beating heart of the 21st century city as the ‘city of transactions’. The most important task for planners and designers will be to provide a flexible and adaptable continuously connected infrastructure that history has taught us to deliver places that work for people. This is the challenge, and the future is now.

Human Centric Approach in Designing Cities

Changing cities with Disruptive Technologies

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Digital Urban Design for Climate Adaptation

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