Cities, Mobility and Urban Systems

Cities are the densest concentration of interacting systems humans build: transport, energy, water, housing, health, communications and administration, all constrained by the same land and the same budgets.

This section examines automated mobility, transit and freight, electrified and flexible grids, urban sensing, digital public services, construction and housing technology, and the resilience of dense systems under stress.

Privacy, procurement and maintenance receive as much attention as new capability, because urban technology usually fails on operations rather than on ideas.