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438I_Joris de Leeuw, Regenerative Designer & System Innovator at Protopia Studio

From sustainability to regeneration with foresight - Joris de Leeuw (438I trailer 3)

437R_Biodiver_Cities: An exploration of how architecture and urban design can regenerate ecosystem services (research debate)

From separateness to interdependency - Joris de Leeuw (438I trailer 2)

Humans and consciousness evolving - Joris de Leeuw (438I trailer 1)

436I_Carina Tenewaa Kanbi, a spatial practitioner

What role do green and public spaces play in cities? Carina Tenewaa Kanbi (436I trailer 3)

435R_Governance of urban informal settlements in Africa: A scoping review

How to bring governments along the improvements? Carina Tenewaa Kanbi (436I trailer 2)

Connection between mayors and the creative industries - Carina Tenewaa Kanbi (436I trailer 1)

434I_Keith Cooke, Director of Planning & Community Development Markets at Esri

Affordability and capacity of housing - Keith Cooke (434I trailer 3)

433R_The effect of housing supply regulation on housing affordability: A review (research summary)

Economic mobility as an opportunity for the future of cities - Keith Cooke (434I trailer 2)

Land use vs zoning on different timeframes - Keith Cooke (434I trailer 1)

432I_Dr Nathalie Mezza-Garcia, digital and water-based jurisdiction architect

Why heterarchy is crucial for the future of cities? Dr Nathalie Mezza-Garcia (432I trailer 3)

431_Self-organized collective action in the floating island project (research summary)

Start up societies as new types of governance - Dr Nathalie Mezza-Garcia (432I trailer 2)

Why floating cities are not green field developments? Dr Nathalie Mezza-Garcia (432I trailer 1)

430I_Alain Bertaud, urbanist and Distinguished Visiting Fellow at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University

Labour market as the ability to change jobs - Alain Bertaud (430I trailer 3)

429R_Cities as labor markets – The efficiency of large labor markets is the main cause of ever-growing cities (book chapter summary)

We shouldn't transform projections into regulations - Alain Bertaud (430I trailer 2)

Why surveying what public and private is crucial for cities? Alain Bertaud (430I trailer 1)

428I_Elizabeth English, founder and director of the Buoyant Foundation Project and Professor at the University of Waterloo School of Architecture

Disasters are the results of natural hazards and decisions - Elizabeth English (428I trailer 3)

427R_Thriving with water: Developments in amphibious architecture in North America (research debate)

What is amphibious architecture and construction? Elizabeth English (428I trailer 2)

Living and working with water, instead of against it - Elizabeth English (428I trailer 1)

426I_AJ Perkins, founder, clean energy strategist and award winning author

Distributed energy systems and Hawaii as a living lab - AJ Perkins (426I trailer 3)

425R_The Energy Foundation – Why Affordable, Reliable Energy Is the Key to Jobs, Cost of Living, and Resilience (book summary)

How to move discussions into decisions? The CLEAR method - AJ Perkins (426I trailer 2)

7 generations and the empty chair for decision-making - AJ Perkins (426I trailer 1)

424I_Ben Wolf, producer and director of Changing Lanes

Let's think about streets as public spaces! Ben Wolf (424I trailer 3)

423R_Scaling the superblock model to city level in Barcelona? Learning from recent policy impact evaluations

Why do big change require leadership? Ben Wolf (424I trailer 2)

Why public spaces are crucial for cities? Ben Wolf (424I trailer 1)

422I_Greg Lindsay, urbanist, futurist and author

The latent potential of cities as networks - Greg Lindsay (422I trailer 3)

421R_The origins of scaling in cities

What would effective adaptive reuse be in the built environment? Greg Lindsay (422I trailer 2)

Human capital as the key for cities - Greg Lindsay (422I trailer 1)

420I_Josh Dorfman, co-founder of Plantd and CEO and host of Supercool podcast

Individuals' role as clearing the runway - Josh Dorfman (420I trailer 3)

419R_Green growth or degrowth? Possible outcomes for climate and society

How to find solutions, thus hope for better futures? Josh Dorfman (420I trailer 2)

What mayors can do for cities and thus climate change? Josh Dorfman (420I trailer 1)

418I_Zoe Wang, landscape architect and urban designer

Designers' role is to make regenerative choices easy to adopt - Zoe Wang (418I trailer 3)

417R_Adaptive urban furniture and its role in the climate resilience of public space

Multipurpose infrastructure for resource efficiency - Zoe Wang (418I trailer 2)

Technology translates living systems to the language that we understand - Zoe Wang (418I trailer 1)

416I_Raoul Rugamba, founder of Africa in Colors and entrepreneur

How to rethink culture and arts in cities? Raoul Rugamba (416I trailer 3)

415R_Rethinking the contribution of creative economies in Africa to sustainable development. An empirical research of creative intermediaries in Accra’s contemporary art sector

The evolution of culture and its importance - Raoul Rugamba (416I trailer 2)

The difference between arts and culture - Raoul Rugamba (416I trailer 1)

414I_Cormac McKay, environmental technologist and policy advisor

Use cases for autonomous vehicles and robotaxis - Cormac McKay (414I trailer 3)

413R_Impacts of connected and autonomous vehicles on urban transportation and environment: A comprehensive review

What are autonomous vehicles? Cormac McKay (414I trailer 2)

Smart city as doing something differently - Cormac McKay (414I trailer 1)

412I_Louis de Jaeger, award-winning filmmaker, author, and landscape designer

Regenerative infrastructure that creates value into the future - Louis de Jaeger (412I trailer 3)

411R_Is coastal climate adaptation infrastructure worth public investment? Evidence from stated preference economic valuation and cost-benefit analysis

What are the benefits of (urban) food forests? Louis de Jaeger (412I trailer 2)

Why greenery is important for us, humans? Louis de Jaeger (412I trailer 1)

410I_Casey Handmer, founder of Terraform Industries

What would it take to build a city on Mars? Casey Handmer (410I trailer 3)

409R_The case for economic growth as the path to better human wellbeing

Economic growth as a foundation for prosperity - Casey Handmer (410I trailer 2)

Urban regeneration as a requirement for urban success - Casey Handmer (410I trailer 1)

408I_Jasper Steinhausen, founder of Business with Impact

The antidote to depression is action - Jasper Steinhausen (408I trailer 3)

407R_Making Sustainability Profitable

Why progress is still important? Jasper Steinhausen (408I trailer 2)

What is our role in innovation? Jasper Steinhausen (408I trailer 1)

406I_Alexander Josephson, founder of Cumulus and Partisans

People, their imagination and glitches as opportunities - Alex Josephson (406I trailer 3)

405R_The global homogenization of urban form – An assessment of 194 cities

Advocacy as a role in establishing the future of cities - Alex Josephson (406I trailer 2)

Is globalisation a risk for the future of cities? Alex Josephson (406I trailer 1)

404I_Jeff Siegler, founder of Revitalize, or Die and author of Your City is Sick book

Let's become as obsessed with healthy places as with healthy food - Jeff Siegler (404I trailer 3)

403R_Integrating behavioral science into urban planning: a framework for human-centered spatial design

Are we just the product of our environments? Jeff Siegler (404I trailer 2)

What keeps us happy in and attached to place? Jeff Siegler (404I trailer 1)

402I_Ben Gilliland, the chairman and founder of Future Proof Property Intelligence

How to get individuals interested in the challenges - Ben Gilliland (402I trailer 3)

401R_Adaptation infrastructure and its effects on property values in the face of climate risk

Alchemy and its connection to change - Ben Gilliland (402I trailer 2)

Why denial is not a plan for the future - Ben Gilliland (402I trailer 1)

400P_Climate change vs cities with Hudson Worsley, Matt Gijselman, and Allan Savory

Agriculture as the foundation of every city - Allan Savory (400P trailer 3)

399R_30 years of adaptation under the Convention and the Paris Agreement

Conversations progressing about climate change - Matt Gijselman (400P trailer 2)

The assumption of a stable climate is gone for planning cities - Hudson Worsley (400P trailer 1)