Cities

of the Future

Each week delivered to your inbox, enjoy original my commentary on the trends, technologies and disruptive forces shaping cities of the future.

The Future of Repurposed Parking

In the US today, there are an estimated 2 billion parking spaces - that’s 5-8 spaces for every car, and almost 6 spots for every person....

New York of the Future: Alternative Visions

New York City is a city of constant change. Buildings are repositioned, torn down and new ones are built in their place. For every...

Adaptive Reuse of the Future: Reimagining Office

Warehouses converted to trendy residential units, churches to restaurants, and banks into clothing stores - the perpetual evolution of...

Development of the Future: Perils of Ai

Ai is already being used in the real estate industry for a variety of development tasks from assessing acquisitions opportunities to...

Architecture of the Future: Generative Ai

When I worked as an Architect, I spent countless hours playing 'architectural-tetris', designing and trialling a myriad of floorpan...

Work of the Future: Digital Nomads

The ideal of having the freedom to endlessly travel the world is no longer limited to retirement but increasingly achievable while...

Development of the Future: Artificial Intelligence

Already at the early stages of a development - site selection, feasibility studies, Ai is being used to scrape publicly available data...

Work of the Future: Gen-Z Workforce

With recent tech-layoffs and Gen-Z receiving less mentorship due to WFH, will Gen-Z will become a lost generation? The future Gen-Z...

24-Hour Cities of the Future: Nighttime Economies

The internet is never closed for business. We can shop online, be entertained and work (if we so wish) - at any hour. Yet...