What makes for a human-centric city?

Download our award-winning app and enjoy access to all exclusive features. Click here to access on Apple or Android.

"Human design is and always must be starting from the lived experience of its users."

Welcome to The Urban Question, a special series of the Urban Report podcast from FORESIGHT Climate & Energy in association with Bloxhub, the Nordic hub for sustainable urbanisation and the WRLDCTY forum.

We aim to explore ideas that drive cities to flourish while addressing the pressing issues of sustainability and decarbonisation. Across the series, we will examine the challenges, trade-offs, and successes that define sustainable cities today through debates with experts who are working to improve the world’s urban areas.

In each episode, the team at FORESIGHT will try to answer a single pressing question or dilemma at the heart of regenerative planning efforts. Using Bloxhub’s home of Copenhagen as our living laboratory, The Urban Question will also look at how other cities are adapting to the demands of the 21st-century citizen.

“With the success of the inner city has come a growing expectation that I can get this in my own neighbourhood at any time.”

For this first episode to explore what makes a model for human-centric cities, David Weston, Editor-in-Chief at FORESIGHT, is joined by two guests:

• Helle Søholt, CEO of the urban strategy and design consultancy Gehl and board chair of Bloxhub.
• Saravanan Sugumaran, managing director of urban advisory firm Morrow Intelligence.

They look at what human-centric urban design actually means, how it’s being applied in cities today and how citizens are reacting to it.

How is your city embracing human-centric urban design? And what changes has it brought to your area? Let us know in the comments below or over on LinkedIn, where you’ll find a community of like-minded individuals working to create a decarbonised economy.

We’ll be back again soon with another Urban Question, but until then, thanks for listening.

"I think you have to earn the right to use the stick...And that comes with a lot of responsibility, both from the government and from active citizenry."

Download our award-winning app and enjoy access to all exclusive features. Click here to access on Apple or Android.

Follow us on X at @Foresight_CE or email us at: [e-mail].

You can also find FORESIGHT Climate & Energy on LinkedIn.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.