Greening Urban Futures – Greening Urban Futures

Our experience of life on Earth is shaped by our environment. As development continues to grow increasingly urban, access to green areas will grow central to human health and quality of life

Today it is well known that cars can occupy up to 70 percent of the street space while being operated only by a fraction of the urban population

Many challenges that would otherwise be hard to meet can best be solved by approaches where nature plays the key role

Urban Biogeography Restoring Ecology in the City-The Case of Los Angeles–GUF Ep.04

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In this episode of the Urban Futures Podcast, we speak with Travis Longcore, Associate Adjunct Professor at UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability and director of The Urban Wildlands Group. During our session, Travis speaks about the essential role nature plays in cities and the critical implications on biodiversity. From an […]

Systems Intelligence & Feedback Loops Shaping the Cities of Tomorrow–GUF Ep.03

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EP.03 – Systems Intelligence & Feedback Loops Shaping the Cities of Tomorrow. In this episode, we sit with Carlo Ratti from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Senseable City Lab http://http://senseable.mit.edu to talk about the rise of urban intelligence and the creation of feedback loops between humans and the built environment. During our […]

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Nature is much more diverse, collaborative and intelligent than we understand today. In contemporary urban living, nature’s beauty and intelligence has been replaced by the economically-driven targets of industrial societies. In fact, we have purposely seek out to break away from nature and it’s environment.

Greening Urban Futures is a living portal and knowledge creation platform for debate on collective challenges concerning life in urban cores. Our aim is to operate as a transformational force for the new wave of 21st century highly urbanised societies enabling learning and the activation of a new state of public awareness and knowledgable communities.

Our experience of life on Earth is shaped by our environment. As development continues to grow increasingly urban, access to green areas will grow central to human health and quality of life

Today it is well known that cars can occupy up to 70 percent of the street space while being operated only by a fraction of the urban population

Many challenges that would otherwise be hard to meet can best be solved by approaches where nature plays the key role

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