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Urban Futures ist der Podcast für Stadtmacher. Die Immobiléros und ehret+klein reflektieren gemeinsam die Zukunft der Immobilienbranche und ihren Einfluss auf die Zukunft unserer urbanen Lebensräume. Kern jedes Podcasts bildet immer ein Gespräch unter Expertinnen und Experten, moderiert von Ivette Wagner oder Michael Rücker. Es geht um Themen wie soziale Integration, die Zukunft der Innenstadt, nachhaltige Stadtentwicklung oder den Nutzen von KI.

Urban Future Talks ist der Podcast des Urban Forum – Egon Matzner-Institut für Stadtforschung. In jeder Folge führen Bernhard Müller oder andere Vertreter:innen des Urban Forum tiefgehende Gespräche mit Persönlichkeiten aus Politik, Wissenschaft, Medien und Zivilgesellschaft. Gemeinsam beleuchten sie aktuelle Herausforderungen und Chancen für Städte im Wandel: von sozialer Gerechtigkeit über Mobilität, Baukultur und Urbanisierung bis hin zu Klimapolitik und demokratischer Teilhabe. Die Gespräche bieten fundierte Analysen, kritische Perspektiven und konkrete Impulse für eine ...

Inclusive recovery, inclusive growth, diversity and inclusion are some of the key light motives cities, organisations and businesses across the globe aspire to in recovering from the Covidー19 crisis as well as addressing equity challenges that existed well before the pandemic. But what does it mean to be inclusive? For whom and where? How to achieve inclusion while addressing seemingly insurmountable challenges of transforming urban futures? Let’s be honest the term inclusion is conceptually complex but methodologically and politically underdeveloped. Therefore, exploring the meaning of ...

A pioneering exploration of four cities where East meets West and past becomes future: St. Petersburg, Shanghai, Mumbai, and Dubai. Every month, five million people move from the past to the future. Pouring into developing-world “instant cities” like Dubai and Shenzhen, these urban newcomers confront a modern world cobbled together from fragments of a West they have never seen. Do these fantastical boomtowns, where blueprints spring to life overnight on virgin land, represent the dawning of a brave new world? Or is their vaunted newness a mirage?

We have released the genie from the bottle: climate change is coming, and there's no stopping it. The question, according to Matthew Kahn, is not how were going to avoid a hotter future but how were going to adapt to it. In Climatopolis, Kahn, one of the worlds foremost experts on the economics of the environment, argues that cities and regions will adapt to rising temperatures over time, slowly transforming our everyday lives.

Welcome to Citizen One: Exploring Our Urban Future. I’m Douglas Stuart McDaniel—author, innovation veteran, and accidental urbanist—exploring the forces shaping the cities of tomorrow. It’s not just a conversation—it’s a call to action. Here, we challenge assumptions, explore bold ideas, and rethink what cities can be—both now and in the future. multiversethinking.substack.com

The CityChangers Podcast: Inspiring Liveable, Equitable, Sustainable Cities “The CityChangers Podcast” explores innovative ideas, showcases success stories (and, importantly, the failures), and delves into the strategies that contribute to positive urban transformations. Each episode features a new thought leader, expert, or visionary who shares their experiences and expertise in making cities better places to live, work, and thrive.

The California Consortium of Urban Indian Health is launching our first ever podcast titled, The Future Fires Podcast. The Future Fires Podcast is a conversation with the American Indian Alaska Native community throughout California and beyond where we focus on creating healthy Native futures.

'Mind-shifting, heart-lifting' ISABELLA TREE 'Inspiring and essential' ALASTAIR HUMPHREYS 'As entertaining as it is enlightening' INDEPENDENT, ★★★★★ Nature isn’t a luxury, it’s a necessity. But today the majority of the world’s population lives in some form of urban environment...

The Gale family can change the world with the charms they cast, which has caused some supernaturally complicated family shenanigans in the past. So when NASA and Doomsday Dan confirm Auntie Catherine’s dire prediction, Charlotte “Charlie” Gale turns to the family for help. But Allie is unavailable because the universe seems determined to have her produce the seventh son of a seventh son of a seventh son of a Gale.

From centres of antiquity like Athens or Rome to modern metropolises like New York or Shanghai, cities throughout history have been the engines of human progress and the epicentres of our greatest achievements. Now, for the first time, more than half of humanity lives in cities, a share that continues to rise. In the developing world, cities are growing at a rate never seen before. In this book, Professor Goldin and Tom Lee-Devlin show why making our societies fairer, more cohesive and sustainable must start with our cities.

As the world around us increases in technological complexity, our understanding of it diminishes. Underlying this trend is a single idea: The belief that our existence is understandable through computation, and more data is enough to help us build a better world. In reality, we are lost in a sea of information, increasingly divided by fundamentalism, simplistic narratives, conspiracy theories, and post-factual politics. Author James Bridle surveys the history of art, technology, and information systems and reveals the dark clouds that gather over our dreams of the digital sublime.

Journey to the farthest reaches of the universe. Explore the deepest mysteries of creation. Behold the brightest lights of the imagination. Discover the Writers of the Future...and experience the power of science fiction and fantasy to transform your world.

From Nebula Award winner Gregory Benford comes this ambitious hard SF anthology that collects five original novellas. Each one takes the very long view - all are set at least ten thousand years in the future. The authors take a rigorously scientific view of such grand panoramas, confronting the largest issues of cosmology, astronomy, evolution, and biology.

Orson Scott Card, Kevin J. Anderson, and Larry Niven have seen the future. Now you can, too. A constellation of the brightest lights in the science fiction and fantasy firmament have judged these authors to be the best, the brightest, the truest emerging stars in the field.

Is basing one's strategy on dream riddles the best idea? Zaena doesn't know what to make of her new friend's prophetic ability, but she's ready to use any tools available to her. Can Zaena's belief in her ultimate success justify the cost of using Saelli's abilities? A critical new clue sends her away from her new home to confront an ancient threat in Europe. Zaena thinks she's ready for whatever might come, but as everyone knows, even a battle-hardened elven princess can be surprised. Does anyone really expect a dead tribe to come back to life?

Another planet closer to Earth than Erik's moon gives up its secrets, providing Erik and Jia with clues that could lead to answers they’ve been seeking. Could an unfriendly but extinct species of alien not be extinct, as presumed? Both want the truth - but is the effort to reveal the truth good for humanity? Two years ago, a small moon in a far-off system was set to be the location of the first intergalactic war between humans and an alien race. It didn't happen. However, something was found that many are willing to kill to keep secret.

Jia and Erik are following up on the crimes they run across, providing Erik with more hints that he needs to help track down the killers of his people. Can Jia provide more support for Erik as he works to uncover secrets the powerful don't want to be revealed? Or will Erik make a mistake and go too far? Both want the truth - but is revealing the truth good for society?

Le Corbusier famously said, "A house is a machine for living in." We now confront the litany of environmental challenges associated with the legacy of the architectural machine: a changing climate, massive species die-off, diminished air and water quality, and resource scarcities. Brook Muller offers an alternative: water-centric urban design that fosters sustainability, equity, and architectural creativity.

“Reading Kuni makes me want to dive into rural Japan...this book reminds me that leaders emerge when and where you least expect it.” — ALICE WATERS, founder of Chez Panisse restaurant, activist, and author A guide to reviving and revitalizing forgotten places and communities through the...