Communities

Meet the Urban Wayfinder, a Neo-Urbanite who navigates the city by bike, mapping his surroundings and choosing the scenic route over the fastest one.

Meet The Urban Technicalist, a Neo-Urbanite whose wardrobe centres on function, adaptability and material performance, forming an everyday uniform engineered for city life.

Meet the Urban Rewilder, a Neo-Urbanite reclaiming dense city life through walkable neighbourhoods, hybrid third spaces and new forms of citizen-led placemaking.

Meet the Neo-Urbanites, the citizens renegotiating urban life on their own terms – reclaiming space as a source of wellbeing, forging community ties and expressing identity through the rhythms of life within a metropolis.

Published alongside The Future Laboratory’s Tech-Resisters Communities report, this Future:Poll survey of nationally representative audiences across the UK, the US and Australia maps how everyday technology resistance is moving from niche behaviour to mainstream reality.