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Technology

Toyota opens Woven City as a living lab for future lifestyles

Toyota has opened its experimental Woven City at the base of Mount Fuji, creating a testbed where residents live alongside prototypes of emerging technologies such as flying taxis, robot pets and drones that escort you home at night.

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Placemaking & Property

Podcast: Des Fitzgerald on Cities of the Future

Welcome to Season 2 (ep 26) of Back to the F\*\*kture! Des Fitzgerald, professor of medical humanities and social sciences, joins The Future Laboratory co-founder Martin Raymond to discuss cities of the future.

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Placemaking & Property

Crafting Singapore’s Well-Nation

Singapore is emerging as the epicentre of health in Southeast Asia, with an ever-evolving proactive strategy ensuring its citizens are living longer – and healthier – lives.

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Design

Bolt invites kids to design human-centric future cities on a playmat

Urban planner Lior Steinberg and Bolt, the shared mobility app, have joined forces with 37 children in Helsinki to re-imagine the conventional city playmat, traditionally laden with roads and parking spaces, into a human-centric urban landscape.

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Technology

Swift Creatives brings colourful design to outdoor monitoring devices

In February 2024, Scandinavian design and innovation studio Swift Creatives, renowned for collaborations with LG, Panasonic and Samsung, introduced Sculptural Surveillance, an avant-garde concept that challenges traditional outdoor monitoring devices.

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Placemaking & Property

The Experimental City

The Living Lab 040 is an experimental Dutch neighbourhood putting people at the heart of the cities of tomorrow. LS:N Global speaks to directors Monique Donker and Jos Lichtenberg about future-proof urban living.

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Sustainability

Stat: Shared mobility market in urban areas could reach £319bn

Unveiled during Web Summit Lisbon in November 2023, a new report on the future of urban transport suggests that shared mobility will expand in the 2020s to make up 7% of all urban transport journeys globally by 2030.

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Retail

Five Global Placemaking Projects to Watch

Urban regeneration in city centres is happening around the globe at pace; developers are looking to cultural, community and sustainable touchpoints to tap into future placemaking opportunities.

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Design

World's largest construction project in wood to begin in Stockholm by 2025

Sustainable urban development firm Atrium Ljungberg has announced Stockholm Wood City as its latest conscious venture.