Urban
Aleks Krotoski explores what technology tells us about ourselves and the age we live in. As more of us move to live in cities, how can they cope with this constant expansion?
Every week a million more people move to live in cities. Can they cope with this constant expansion? Aleks explores whether 'Smart' cities are the answer or do they come with a hidden price of personal freedom. She visits the world's "smartest" city, Masdar in Abu Dhabi and explores the social engineering that's as much part of the design as the bricks and mortar.
Contributors: Physicist Geoffrey West, Urban Explorer Brad Garrett, Lean Doody from ARUP, Dr Iyad Rahwan, Architect and Artist Usman Haque.
Producer: Peter McManus.
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Cities are the source of but also the solution to our problems
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Bradley Garrett
Bradley Garrett is writer, photographer, and researcher at the University of Oxford. From 2008-2012, he lived as an urban explorer, photographing the hidden and off-limits spaces in cities around the world.
Geoffrey West
Physicist Geoffrey West Ìýis one of the leading scientists working on a scientific model of cities. ÌýHe has found that simple, mathematical laws govern the properties of cities -- that wealth, crime rate, walking speed and many other aspects of a city can be deduced from a single number: the city's population.
ÌýLéan Doody
Léan Doody is an Associate at ARUP, where she leads work in Smart Cities, concentrating on the application of information and communications technology in urban developments and how information technology and data can impact how people use cities.
Usman Haque
London based architect Usman Haque is director of Haque Design + Research. He designs interactive architecture systems and researches how people relate to each other and their spaces.
Dr. Iyad Rahwan
Dr. Iyad Rahwan is Associate Professor in Computing & Information Science at Masdar Institute, a research institute established in cooperation with MIT.
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- Mon 14 Oct 2013 16:30Â鶹Éç Radio 4
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