The Future Laboratory

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The Neo-Urbanites: The Urban Rewilder

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

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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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Health, Wellness & Sport

Bathhouse Flatiron unveils luxurious wellness oasis in Manhattan

Expanding from its successful Williamsburg debut, Bathhouse, the renowned spa, restaurant and wellness destination, has opened in the heart of Manhattan’s Flatiron district.

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Health, Wellness & Sport

Urban Blue Spaces

Ahead of the opening of the UK’s first city-based wellness resort, Therme UK CEO David Russell tells LS:N Global about the company’s vision for worldwide wellness and why cities need more blue spaces.

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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

Stat: The most liveable US city is not in North America

In its annual report on the world's most liveable cities, released in June 2023, The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) reveals that Honolulu (Hawaii) is the first American city in the rankings, reaching 25th spot.