City Rebels
By Urban Impact
We are Urban Impact, an agency from Berlin scouting, connecting and helping urban tech startups from Europe and beyond to grow.
City RebelsDec 13, 2019
City Rebels Episode 1: Anthony Townsend
„ You can continue planning to run your city with the same methods and the same people and same organizations - but disruption is gonna happen again and again and again.“ (Anthony Townsend, City Rebels Podcast Episode 1)
In our first ever episode of City Rebels we kick off with an outstanding guest: Anthony Townsend (Twitter: @anthonymobile)
Listening to our interview which we recorded back in November 2018 you will understand why Anthony is a real city rebel to us. His understanding and takes on smart cities have started way back when he was in college. For him, a smart city has always been more than big players implementing a new technology into the city's infrastructure or government. Since he has been looking at the topic of information and communication for more than twenty years so no wonder he brought out his first book "SMART CITIES: Big Data, Civic Hackers, and the Quest for a New Utopia" in 2014, discussing the use of big data and digitalization of our cities, and their transformation into smart cities.
Besides publishing his first book, Anthony’s recent research has covered the future of automated and autonomous vehicles (AVs), the urban science movement, and big data and inclusion. One of his latest projects has been The Autonomous Vehicles: Future Scenarios supported by Bloomberg Philanthropies as part of the Bloomberg Aspen Initiative on Cities and Autonomous Vehicles and NLC.
So, let's jump into our first episode!
To keep it simple and structured - here are the show notes *drum roll*
This episode is all about smart cities and new technologies. Discover with us:
What Smart Cities has to do with the 2008 Financial Crisis and what led to Anthony writing his first book "Smart Cities“
How different parts of the world approach the smart city movement
The three giants Uber, Amazon and Airbnb and their impact on our cities
How new mobility is changing real estate models
Why we should talk more about last meter rather than last mile logistics
What watershed management has to do with autonomous driving
E-Scooters in our cities and their potential for automation
The Autonomous Vehicles: Future Scenarios - Booklets
What potentials Anthony sees in Berlin in terms of future technologies
Anthony's current work on his new book: Ghost Road: Beyond the Driverless Car
About this Podcast:
We are Urban Impact, an agency from Berlin, scouting, connecting and helping urban tech startups to grow in Europe. Through our work we have been getting into touch with real change makers, people, that shape our cities, think forward and make a real difference to us. We call those people "city rebels", just like our Podcast. Working with people, talking to them made us realize, how many amazing stories are out there, which we want to share with you.
Feel free to send us a mail at hello@urbanimpact.eu if you believe you are a city rebel or simply want to reach out to us.
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