What does the city of the future look like? Climate One conversations feature oil companies and

environmentalists, Republicans and Democrats, the exciting and the scary aspects of the climate challenge.

I'm Greg Dalton. I hope you enjoy this rebroadcast of Cities of the Future from July of 2019.

A new life awaits you in the off-world colonies, the chance to begin again in a golden

land of opportunity and adventure.

When Ridley Scott envisioned the dystopian Los Angeles of 2019 and Blade Runner,

he probably didn't think about how much energy would be needed to run those flying cars

and sky-high animated billboards, or what it would be doing to the climate.

We've now reached the year in which Blade Runner is set.

Flying cars are still in the future, but with over half of the global population

living in urban centers, and another 2.5 billion expected to join them by 2050, maybe it's

time to take a step backward when it comes to getting around the city.

If you make more bicycle lanes, do it properly, you get more bicycles. And if you invite

people to walk more and use public spaces more, you get more bicycles. And if you invite people to walk more and use public spaces more,

you get more life in the city. You get what you invite for. Architect Yang Gail was instrumental in

helping to turn Copenhagen into one of the world's most livable cities. His people-centric approach

has influenced urban planning throughout the world. But while

disinviting cars from our city streets may sound like utopia for some, it could mean big problems

for others. So if we've removed the car from a place, which actually a large number of people

who don't have access to public transit, who may not have access to the scooters or any of those things,

are they able to actually get to where they need to go?

On today's program, we invite you to visit Tomorrowland with three forward-looking urban leaders.

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