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Tuesday October 2nd, 2018
Towns and cities are forged in the crucible of multiple communities and usage patterns, and grow with them. In this way, inhabitants build a future as they take control of their daily lives.
This future is built, as we will learn here, on a dual view of mobility: on the one hand, practices relating to proximity; and on the other, a plethora of sustainable mobility solutions. After a century of damaging urban disintegration, we are once again learning that proximity is the central point of our urban lives. It also generates strong demand and a vital level of governance, and may potentially offer a solution to the congestion and saturation issues all too familiar in our towns and their traffic.
It brings with it the promise of new, calmer mobility solutions; provided we are able to take control of the big issue of transport modes, their combinations, their functions, their scales, and the forces that drive a town; people, resources, information… and therefore data. All of these movements show a trend towards carbon-free mobility solutions as an urgent response to climate changes which negatively affect us all.
No aspect of housing has been spared, they are all being reinvented in accordance with three overarching principles: housing that is agile and custom-built, housing that is shared and open to the rest of the city, and housing that is sustainable and resilient.
With the digital ecosystem, we are transitioning to a new paradigm which is revolutionising our economic models, our lifestyle, and our habits. New opportunities are opening up for us in different areas such as shared usage, mobility, energy, citizen involvement, and community living.
Campuses are transmuting under the effects of the digital revolution; the push for sustainable development; greater flows of people, goods and information in the wake of globalization; evolving economic and governance models; higher demand for lucrative degrees; and more competitive labour markets – forces that are also changing the means of education and the makeup of students.
The ageing population is not a new topic, but due to the acceleration and scale of the phenomenon over the coming ears, we must study this challenge and analyse its consequences for the housing supply.
Towns and cities are forged in the crucible of multiple communities and usage patterns, and grow with them. In this way, inhabitants build a future as they take control of their daily lives.
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