1. How do you envision
the City of the
Future?
By Christophe Duong

2. The City of the Future solves Challenges:
Impacts of Urban Sprawl
Growing Global Urbanisation
Relentless Waste Management
Air & Water Pollution
Resource Depletion

3. Impacts of Urban Sprawl:
Urban sprawl is the expansion of cities in a low
density manner encouraging car dependency.
Impacts of such city design are:
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Obesogenic through inactivity and reliance on
cars
Increase in traffic and traffic-related
fatalities
Increase pollution and use of fossil fuel
Increase infrastructures costs
Decrease social interactions
Decrease land and water quantity and quality

4. Global Urbanisation:
By 2050, the UN expects the world
population to reach 9 billion from the 7
billion today.
70% of which would live in cities and we
will need to produce 70% more food.
Rapid population growth is mainly
expected in developing countries where
new cities will be born. This is a challenge
where uncontrolled growth could result in
overcrowding, development of slums,
informal settlements and improper waste
management.

5. Relentless Waste Management:
Waste management is the most important
service a city provides to avoid pollution and
diseases.
Municipal solid waste will rise from the current
1.3bn tonnes a year to 2.2bn by 2025,
Landfilled food waste is predicted to increase
world methane (CH4) emissions from 31 million
to 43 million tonnes.
New products are usually launched and mass
produced then transformed into new kinds of
waste before an effective waste management
solution is established.

6. Air & Water Pollution:
In developing countries, 70 percent of industrial wastes are dumped
untreated into waters polluting usable water supply. Each year there are
about 250 million cases of water-based diseases, resulting in roughly 5 to 10
million deaths.
Transportation sources such as cars, trucks, buses, ships and trains account
for 90% of the cancer risk associated with air pollution

7. Resource Depletion:
An unsustainable situation occurs when natural capital
(total of nature’s resources) is used up faster than it can
be replenished.
The US represents less than 5% of the world’s population
but due to the car dependent environment and large
houses, they use more than a quarter of the world’s
supply of fossil fuels.
The 20% richest of the world’s population account for 86%
of consumption expenditures, the 20% poorest for a mere
1.3%.
70% of the world’s major fish stocks are overfished or are
being fished at their biological limit.

8. The City of the Future promotes:
Competitive Economy
Educated Citizens
Smart Governance
Safe & Efficient Mobility
Sustainable Development
Healthy Quality of Life

9. Therefore the City of the Future is walkable
Public transportation in the city of the future will allow you to travel
wherever you need to go. While walkability benefits from good transit, good
transit relies absolutely on walkability.
Walking is beneficial to health,
safer than driving a car and
reduces energy usage and
carbon emission. Businesses
appear to do better in walkable
commercial areas.
There is even technology
“Pavegen” that generates
energy from walking.

10. The City of the Future has smarter transportation
Cars will still drive around the city of the future, they
will be:
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Driverless and safer as less prone to human error,
fatigue
Used differently: more often shared
More efficient
Electric
Compact

11. The City of the Future is more sustainable
The city of the
future produces
both fish and
organic
vegetables for its
citizens.

12. The City of the Future is smartly managed
Data Science will play an important role in discovering
trends, influencing decisions on the urban design,
layout, its infrastructures, transportation system and
businesses as the City of the Future will closely monitor
such factors and adapts itself to the demands.

13. Conclusion
The city of the future faces difficult challenges especially
concerning the sustainability of our civilisation on Earth.
As a result, the city of the future will reflect changes in
our behaviors and habits in order to reduce our footprint
on the environment and promotes a healthier future for
the generations to come.