City of the Future
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City of the Future
We explore the innovations and ideas that will transform our cities.
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28 টি এপিসোডAn Update from Vanessa
As you might have heard, Sidewalk Labs became a part of Google at the beginning of 2022. So City of the Future has been on hiatus...BUT I’m still crea...
Episode 20: The ”S” in ESG
E-S-G. If you haven’t heard that term before, it stands for Environmental, Social, and Governance. It’s a framework that investors use to help them de...
Episode 19: Next-Gen Manufacturing
In the early 20th century, many U.S. factories were located in urban cores, where workers could easily access their jobs. But the benefit of proximity...
Episode 18: Innovation Ecosystems 2.0
Innovation ecosystems — places where companies and anchor institutions cluster and connect with startups, incubators, and smaller accelerators — are f...
Episode 17: Wealth Beyond Ownership
Cities throughout the U.S. (and around the world) are struggling with the many issues that come with neighborhood growth and displacement. But what if...
Episode 16: From Owing to Owning
Cities across the U.S. are suffering from dire housing crises. Housing supply is low, and prices are high — in some cities, sky high. And wages and in...
BONUS: Development 101
The process of real estate development is critical to urban life. Without it, we’d have no homes, no stores, no community centers. But development isn...
Flexible Streets
The pandemic has forced us to reexamine and reimagine how we use one of our most precious public spaces: our streets. From outdoor dining to expanded...
Factory-based Construction
For about a century, architects and developers have dreamed of the promise of factory-based construction — after all, if Henry Ford revolutionized the...
Remote Work
In an era of remote work, when people can work from anywhere, where will they choose to live? And what can cities do to set themselves apart from the...
Generative Design
Generative design is the process of automatically producing thousands of designs based on goals and constraints you feed into a computer. In this epis...
Energy-Efficient Buildings
To save our planet, we’ll need to reduce emissions — fast. And if we’re serious about addressing climate change, we’ll need to address one of our bigg...
Trailer: City of the Future Season 3!
Hi City of the Future listeners! We've been hard at work behind the scenes, and we're so excited to share a little sneak peek of season three. Stay tu...
Introducing The Sidewalk Weekly!
Hi, City of the Future listeners! Remember when we asked if anyone would like to listen to a pilot of a new podcast? Well good news — that podcast lau...
Lend us your ears?
Hi City of the Future listeners! In between seasons, we've been working on a new podcast idea. (Don't worry, CotF isn't going anywhere!) We'd love to...
10: Responsive Architecture
In the last century, we started to design our buildings in a way that was divorced from the environment. We made sealed, hermetic structures that neve...
9: Affordable electrification
For a sustainable future, we need to turn away from fossil fuels and turn towards electricity. But to electrify everything — our cars, our buildings,...
8: Mobility on Demand
Getting around cities today can be challenging. Streets are congested and chaotic, and new modes seem to be popping up daily, adding to the confusion....
7: Stoa
Vacant storefronts have become pervasive on our city streets. How did we get here? And how can we help retailers, and community spaces, thrive? In thi...
6: Affordability by Design
We're in a housing crisis. Could affordability by design be part of the solution? In this episode hosts Eric Jaffe and Vanessa Quirk look at trends in...
BONUS: Dan Doctoroff unpacks our Toronto plan
Today, Sidewalk Labs’ proposal for Toronto, the Master Innovation and Development Plan (MIDP), will be released to the public. And because a lot of th...
Live at the Brooklyn Podcast Festival!
For our first live show, co-host Vanessa Quirk moderates a discussion with some of the familiar voices from season 1: Director of Buildings Innovation...
5: Closing the Recycling Loop
Simple as it may seem, recycling properly is really hard — and our misguided attempts are actually harming the planet more than helping. But what if w...
4: Delivery Robots
Every day, truck drivers are out battling rush hour traffic, maneuvering through narrow city streets, circling for parking, emitting exhaust — all to...
3: Adaptive Traffic Lights
Traffic lights were invented to improve pedestrian safety, but they also created streets that put cars first. But what if traffic lights could respond...
2: Modular Pavement
In our second episode, we explore how modular pavement — which would allow us to embed technologies into our streets — could transform our cities. We...
1: Mass Timber
In our first episode of City of the Future, our new bi-weekly podcast, we explore how mass timber could transform our cities — by making wooden skysc...
City of the Future - Coming Soon!
City of the Future is a podcast from Sidewalk Labs — coming soon!