What is The Future for Cities?

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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.

  1. 21h ago

    Public space as the product - Howard Kozloff (476)

    Howard Kozloff, founder of Agora Partners, argues that public space is the product and buildings are the walls around it. Projects, in his practice, have to be financially viable and civically valuable together. He calls the method entrepreneurial planning: developer discipline and risk tolerance applied to problems usually left to policy, so a plan shapes what gets built. Cities, he says, absorb shocks and still gather, and public space is what makes density livable. Government's useful role is a rule the land market can price on day one, and someone still has to own the operating costs or the welcome fails. He closes on people in the street, and on the claim that the demise of the city is greatly overstated. (00:00) Cities absorb every shock (02:11) Entrepreneurial planning (06:40) Capital, design, and policy (09:55) Why cities still gather (12:47) Public space, not just density (16:04) Capital misses the public realm (18:48) Affordability is structural (23:14) The developer's social contract (27:36) Fears for the future of cities (32:01) Government and predictable rules (35:47) Innovation and building risk (44:45) Reuse, stewardship, and labs (52:11) People on the street Show notes Pairs with episode 475 What is The Future for Cities? If you would like to support the podcast, check out the Building Better Cities book or our Patreon! Episode generated with Descript assistance (affiliate link). Music by Lesfm from Pixabay

  2. Episode 476

    Who pays to run a public space - Howard Kozloff (476)

    Howard Kozloff says someone has to own the operating costs of a public space, and that this is a design and financing question if the welcome is going to last. Stewardship, for him, belongs in the capital structure. From the interview with Howard Kozloff in episode 476, on public space as the product. If you would like to support the podcast, check out the Building Better Cities book or our Patreon! Episode generated with Descript assistance (affiliate link). Music by Lesfm from Pixabay

  3. 2d ago

    How much are public spaces worth? (475)

    Jagoda Adamus's 2023 paper asks what public spaces are worth when the market will not name a price. This debate tests whether total economic value can hold a plaza's cultural worth. One side of the conversation treats culture, bequest, and the joy of a bench as human utility already inside the economic account, and points to hedonic prices and contingent valuation as the tools. The other treats David Throsby's cultural capital as a separate category, and argues that genius loci cannot be transferred to a shopping mall that only copies the functions. Both agree that floor area and commercial income miss what public space does for wellbeing, and that a city negotiates better when it can speak about worth in more than one language. The research transcript is on the site. (00:00) What a plaza is worth (03:17) Total economic value (04:16) Cultural capital apart (05:02) Pricing the unpriceable (06:03) Urban squares resist the tools (07:37) Scarcity and free riders (09:28) Replacement and the mall (10:18) Genius loci (11:10) The language of capital (12:28) Where both sides meet https://doi.org/10.33119/GN/163105 Shownotes Pairs with episode 476 If you would like to support the podcast, check out the Building Better Cities book or our Patreon! Episode generated with Descript assistance (affiliate link) Music by Lesfm from Pixabay

  4. Episode 476

    Zoning gets priced into the land - Howard Kozloff (476)

    Howard Kozloff argues that land markets price a zoning rule as soon as a city approves it, sometimes overnight. A late demand for a park can stop a building that an early rule would have allowed. From the interview with Howard Kozloff in episode 476, on public space as the product. If you would like to support the podcast, check out the Building Better Cities book or our Patreon! Episode generated with Descript assistance (affiliate link). Music by Lesfm from Pixabay

  5. Episode 476

    Entrepreneurial planning for public space - Howard Kozloff (476)

    Howard Kozloff calls entrepreneurial planning the habit of using developer discipline on problems usually left to policy, so a plan shapes what gets built. He treats the park and the sidewalk as the product. From the interview with Howard Kozloff in episode 476, on public space as the product. If you would like to support the podcast, check out the Building Better Cities book or our Patreon! Episode generated with Descript assistance (affiliate link). Music by Lesfm from Pixabay

  6. Oct 21

    Urban logistics in large cities - Laetitia Dablanc (474)

    Laetitia Dablanc, professor at the University Gustave Eiffel, says urban logistics in large cities already delivers the goods. The gap she names is planner skill, not a missing technology. She places the most sophisticated logistics in large cities, defines a megacity as a connection of up to about 40 million people, and splits the field into warehousing and transportation. E-commerce, in her account, can be better for CO2 than store retail and worse for the quality of the jobs. Robots already do the worst warehouse work. Transport models are about 20 years behind the city they describe. She is hopeful because solar panels, new vegetation, and a swimmable Seine are already here, and because she educates about 10 people a year to use that kind of tool. (00:00) Cities are the future (02:50) What a city is (06:29) Mega-regions as one connection (07:56) Warehousing and transport (10:36) The goods system already works (12:59) Air, noise, and the jobs (15:16) E-commerce, carbon, and work (17:08) Automation and warehouse robots (20:45) Planner skills are the concern (24:12) Transport models left behind (27:35) Where skills still concentrate (31:08) Hope, because the tools exist (33:44) Engineering that is already here (37:57) Educating ten experts a year Show notes What is The Future for Cities? If you would like to support the podcast, check out the ⁠⁠Building Better Cities book⁠⁠ or our ⁠⁠Patreon⁠⁠! Episode generated with ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Descript⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ assistance (⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠affiliate link⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠). Music by ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Lesfm ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠from ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Pixabay

  7. Episode 474

    Engineering cities can use now - Laetitia Dablanc (474)

    Laetitia Dablanc points to solar panels, new vegetation, and two years of swimming in the Seine as engineering cities already have, and still do not use enough. From the interview with Laetitia Dablanc in ⁠episode 474⁠, on urban logistics in large cities. If you would like to support the podcast, check out the ⁠⁠⁠⁠Building Better Cities book⁠⁠⁠⁠ or our ⁠⁠⁠⁠Patreon⁠⁠⁠⁠! Episode generated with ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Descript⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ assistance (⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠affiliate link⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠). Music by ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Lesfm ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠from ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Pixabay⁠⁠

  8. Oct 19

    Last-mile urban logistics in Portuguese cities (473)

    Diogo Correia, Cristiano Vagos, João Lourenço Marques, and Leonor Teixeira test last-mile logistics in Portuguese cities. Over 76% of municipalities lack real-time tools, so a 15-minute city-led network is elegant on paper and hard to run. The debate is whether a municipality should orchestrate shared hubs, cargo bikes, and a predictive map, or whether missing data and thin coordination make that role impractical. Proprietary vans account for up to 21% of CO2 in residential areas, and only about 2% of municipalities said they would not struggle to mobilise a 15-minute response. Lisbon is the worked example: DBSCAN inside 1.5 kilometres, Uber's H3 grid, and Valhalla 15-minute bike isochrones. GDPR, hills, cold storage, and private operators who compete on routing are the constraints. The research transcript is on the show site. (00:00) The last-mile free-for-all (02:41) A 15-minute logistics question (03:41) Logistics 4.0 and shared hubs (04:40) Lisbon's tools and algorithm (06:05) Data, privacy, and radar (07:08) Sharing work with operators (08:26) Hills, storage, and bikes (09:46) What both sides still share https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13675567.2022.2130211 Shownotes Pairs with episode 474 If you would like to support the podcast, check out the ⁠⁠⁠Building Better Cities book⁠⁠⁠ or our ⁠⁠⁠Patreon⁠⁠⁠! Episode generated with ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Descript⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ assistance (⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠affiliate link⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠) Music by ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Lesfm ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠from ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Pixabay⁠

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