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162I_Trailer_Warren Hill, enterprise account director at Appscore

160R_What is the city? (research summary)

159I_Michael Browne, manager at Melbourne Water

158R_Integrating Aboriginal cultural values into water planning: A case study from New South Wales, Australia (research summary)

159I_Trailer_Michael Browne, manager at Melbourne Water

157R_Ontological review of smart city research (research summary)

156I_Fanni Melles, future of cities researcher and podcast host

155B_#2 Birthday Special - summary of WTF's second year

156I_Trailer_Fanni Melles, future of cities researcher and podcast host

154R_Smart City? Smarter City? Smarter Approach? The Smarter City Flywheel

153I_Ana Enache, overall sustainability enthusiast and Chief of Staff at AppScore

152R_Three pillars of sustainability: in search of conceptual origins (research summary)

153I_Trailer_Ana Enache, overall sustainability enthusiast and Chief of Staff at Appscore

151R_Aesthetics of sustainability and architecture: An overview (research summary)

150P_What is academia's role in establishing the future of cities? Panel discussion with previous interviewees

149R_Urban futures: systemic or system changing interventions? A literature review using Meadows’ leverage points as analytical framework (research summary)

148R_Interstitiality in the smart city: more than top-down and bottom-up smartness (research summary)

147I_Damian Hewitt, Head of Smart Cities and Future Mobility at SAGE Group

146R_Including marginalised communities in urban development and smart cities

147I_trailer_Damian Hewitt, Head of Smart Cities and Future Mobility at SAGE Group

145R_Smart city and simplicity? Modular business models for smart cities (research summary)

144I_Morley Muse, cofounder of iSTEM Co and renewable energy consultant

143R_Extraction of microalgae as a form of wastewater treatment: Opportunities in biodiesel, biogas, biohydrogen, and volatile fatty acids production (research summary)

142R_Becoming future-proof STEM teachers for enhancing sustainable development: A proposed general framework for a capacity-building programs in future studies (research summary)

141I_Soheil Sabri, Digital Delivery Lead for Urban Digital Twin at the Centre for Spatial Data Infrastructures and Land Administration at the University of Melbourne

140R_Creating digital twins to save our cities

139R_The landscape and evolution of urban planning science (research summary)

138I_Luis Natera, software developer and geospatial network scientist

137R_Quantifying life quality as walkability on urban networks: The case of Budapest (research summary)

136R_An analysis of the legal framework influencing walking in Australia (research summary)

135I_Paul Satur, research fellow and lecturer at Monash Water Sensitive Cities and co-founder and CEO of Our Future Cities

134R_Social inequality and water use in Australian cities: the social gradient in domestic water use (research episode)

133R_Multifunctional Urban Spaces – a solution to increase the quality of urban life in dense cities (research summary)

132I_Michael Batty, Bartlett professor of planning - What are cities and and their futures?

131R_Inventing Future Cities (book summary)

130R_A new framework for very large-scale urban modelling (research summary)

129I_Alan Donegan, founder at Rebel Business, Entrepreneur and Finance School

128R_Entrepreneurship in cities (research summary)

127R_Urban futures – Idealization, capitalization, securitization (research summary)

126I_Corey Gray, engineer and Global CEO of the Smart Cities Council

125R_Aesthetics of Sustainability: a transdisciplinary sensibility for transformative practices (research summary)

124R_Smart cities: Utopia or neoliberal ideology (research summary)

123I_Alex Louey, managing director and co-founder of AppsCore Digital

122R_Urban sprawl and its impact on sustainable urban development: a combination of remote sensing and social media data (research summary)

121R_Smart City appropriation by local actors: An instrument in the making (research summary)

120I_Matt Ferrell, Youtube creator specialising in sustainable and renewable technologies

119R_Pessimism and optimism in the debate on climate change: A critical analysis (research summary)

118R_Smart sustainable cities – Exploring ICT solutions for reduced energy use in cities (research summary)

117I_Colin Chee, the creative director of the Never Too Small YouTube channel

116R_Small is beautiful? Stories of carbon footprints, socio-demographic trends and small households in Denmark (research summary)

115R_Towards Post-Anthropocentric Cities: Reconceptualising smart cities to evade urban ecocide (research summary)

114I_Kelly Boucher, a scholar, education consultant and breakthrough coach

113R_Radical collaboration: flipping the paradigm on learning (research summary)

112R_Engaging with place – Foregrounding Aboriginal perspectives in early childhood education (research summary)

111I_Dave Hakkens, an industrial designer, inventor and an overall pioneer

110R_Global survey of Precious Plastic Projects: A summary of findings (research summary)

109R_How much sustainability substance is in urban visions? An analysis of visioning projects in urban planning (research summary)

108I_Dr Anthony Kent, economic geographer, researcher and educator

107R_Planning the post-political city: exploring public participation in the contemporary Australian city (research summary)

106R_Smart cities as a platform for technological and social innovation in productivitiy, sustainability, and livability: A conceptual framework (research summary)

105I_Richard Morrison, Industry Director, Technology Advisory APAC at AECOM

104R_The story of NEOM city: opportunities and challenges (research summary)

103R_A survey of environments and mechanisms for human-human stigmergy (research summary)

102_Merry Christmas and a very Happy New Year!

101R_What we owe the future (book summary)

100P_So much research but where is the smart city? Panel discussion with previous interviewees

099I_Noel Tighe, architect and associate director at Denton Corker Marshall

098R_Building social capital: A learning agenda for the twenty-first century (research summary)

097R_A multilevel method to assess and design the renovation and integration of smart cities (research summary)

096I_Chris Maher, an architect and city planner and the director and national portfolio leader for urban development at Hames Sharley

095R_Housing as a social determinant of health and wellbeing: developing an empirically-informed realist theoretical framework (research summary)

094R_Defining smart city: A conceptual framework based on keyword analysis (research summary)

093I_Jeni Paay, professor of human-computer interaction design and the leader of Centre for Design Innovation at Swinburne University of Technology

092R_The city as an urban interaction design platform (book chapter summary)

091R_The political premises of contemporary urban concepts: the global city, the sustainable city, the resilient city, the creative city, and the smart city (research summary)

090I_Matthew McCartney, professor of development economics and researcher at the Charter Cities Institute

089R_African Railways could go bankrupt but this is not necessarily a bad thing & It will be the best of times, it will be worst of times: thinking about contemporary African railway mania (summary)

088R_The costs ad benefits of environmental sustainability (research summary)

087I_Paul Brookbanks, principal landscape architect at Spiire

086R_Advancing landscape sustainability science: theoretical foundation and synergies with innovation in methodology, design and application (research summary)

085R_Stigmergy in human practice: Coordination in construction work (research summary)

084I_Jacek Urbanowicz, an architect at COX Architecture and co-founder of Tunarch.org

083R_Operationalising a concept: The systematic review of composite indicator building for measuring community disaster resilience (research summary)

084I_Trailer_084I_Jacek Urbanowicz, an architect at COX Architecture and co-founder of Tunarch.org

082R_Beyond defining the smart city – Meeting top-down and bottom-up approaches in the middle (research summary)

081I_Nataly Arevalo, environmental designer, urban researcher, and lecturer

080R_Functionality between the size and indicators of smart cities: A research challenge with policy implications (research summary)

079B_#1 Birthday Special - summary of the WTF's first year

078I_Ammon Beyerle, participatory architect, urban design theorist, and teacher

077R_Steering into the Skid – Arbitraging human and artificial intelligences to augment the design process (research summary)

076R_Smart innovative cities: The impact of smart city policies on urban innovation (research summary)

075I_Gavin Cotterill, consulting director of the Cohesive Group's Asia Pacific Digital Practice and co-chair of the Smart Cities Council Digital Twin Task group

074R_Resilient urban planning: major principles and criteria (research summary)

073R_Smart communities initiatives (research summary)

072I_Dr Tamás Mezős, architect, engineer, architectural historian

071R_Towards intelligently sustainable cities? – From intelligent and knowledge city programmes to the achievement of urban sustainability (research summary)

070R_Citizen-centred big data analysis-driven governance intelligence framework for smart cities (research summary)

069I_Dr Éva Kereszty, doctor, teacher and forensic medical expert

068R_Measuring urban sustainability: the potential and pitfalls of city rankings (research summary)

067R_Theoretical underpinnings of regenerative sustainability (research summary)