Megacities on the Move audio slideshow
By 2040 it’s estimated that two in three people are expected to live in urban environments. Anyone who’s ever tried to navigate the London transport system at rush hour will know that moving around our overpopulated cities can be a stressful pass time. So, how are our cities going to cope with the increasing demand on transport systems?
In this audio slideshow Ivana Gazibara, one of our futures experts, takes us on a tour through some of the challenges and innovations that helped inspire the work in our Megacities on the Move project.
Megacities on the Move sets out to find solutions to one of the biggest challenges – how billions of city-dwellers can access what they need without putting intolerable strains on the planet. It focuses on how to achieve sustainable urban mobility, looking at all the ways in which people will access goods, services and information and make contact with each other. It goes beyond transport to consider ICT solutions, innovative urban design and much more. To find out more about the project and download the report, click here.
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first of all those little cars are ugly, I did like the train thing with cars able to drive underneath them. that was kinda cool. personally I hate cities, I think we should be working on creating wealth for those four billion low income people so they can be self sustaining and not always needing income from the wealthier nations. they need to be built up not the rest of world brought down to their level. of course this will never happen,not under human rule anyway.
I can imagine that a mega city it will cost more for all that you mention including food. after all the more people crammed into a space the longer distances food has to travel to feed everyone. windmills are notoriously unreliable and expensive.
I do like the idea of being able to use my bike more, I get nervous riding it around here as the infrastruture is not geared for it. but even better would be infrastruture that incorporates all manner of transport cars, horses, bikes, scooters. I don't see why we cant just make space more abundant even in cities where people are not crammed together like hong kong with a people per mile being like 36,000. this is ridiculous. why not have a minimum requirement of one acre per person.
I can imagine the responses.. humans were meant to be free, living in open areas, with nature not locked up in cities or prisons. now for those who choose cities great those innovations are perfect for them. economic prison is soft slavery. if economics forces a person to live where and how they don't want then their nature has been violated and being part of nature doesn't that account for anything. if it is abusive ot put animals into cages and pens and to use them for work why is it okay for humans to be so? humans are after all not from another planet. this does exclude commiting violence against another
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