Talk: Beyond the Driverless Car

This talk, delivered in spring 2019 at Toronto’s Evergreen Brickworks campus to kick off TD Bank’s Future Cities Speaker Series, provided a tear-down of the big trends behind automated mobility and explored how new types of automated vehicles—very small and…

Talk: What’s Next for Smart Cities?

How is digital technology changing the way we build, govern, and live in cities? This is the question that the smart cities movement has sought to explore for the last decade. But as new fears about automation, surveillance, and the…

Talk: Future Knowledge Ecosystems and the Cambridge Phenomenon

The interplay between geography and innovation is changing at every scale—global, national, regional, and local? How do we make places to harness these shifts? In 2010, Anthony Townsend spoke at the 50th anniversary of the Cambridge cluster in England. He…