INCLUSIVE URBAN FUTURES
Inclusive Urban Futures explores one of the defining questions of our time: how do we build inclusive urban futures in a world shaped by rapid urbanisation, technological disruption, demographic change, climate transition, and shifting patterns of investment and power?
Hosted by Dr. Orna Rosenfeld, global advisor on housing systems, investment and inclusion, the podcast brings together leaders, policymakers, researchers, investors, practitioners and innovators from around the world to examine the forces shaping the future of cities and societies.
Through conversations, reflections and thought leadership, Inclusive Urban Futures explores topics including housing affordability, urban development, social cohesion, migration, climate adaptation, digital transformation, artificial intelligence (AI), governance, and the evolving geography of urban growth. Episodes draw on perspectives from across disciplines, sectors and global regions, connecting global trends with practical experience and implementation.
Produced by the Inclusive Urban Futures Association, the podcast creates a space for dialogue across boundaries and borders — linking ideas with action, policy with practice, and ambition with delivery. It is a platform for exploring how inclusion can be embedded in the systems, institutions and investments that will shape the future of urban life.
Learn more: www.inclusiveurbanfutures.org
Contact: hello@inclusiveurbanfutures.org
Episodes
18 episodes
Season 2. Episode 4: Keith Thorpe
In this episode of Inclusive Urban Futures, recorded live at the World Urban Forum, we had the pleasure of speaking with Keith Thorpe, an internationally recognised expert in housing, urban deve...
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Season 2. Episode 3: Antonio Campagnoli
In this episode of Inclusive Urban Futures, recorded live at the World Urban Forum, we had the pleasure of speaking with Antonio Campagnoli, lawyer, real estate expert, and World President of FIABCI – the...
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Season 2. Episode 2: Ali A. Alraouf
In this episode of Inclusive Urban Futures, recorded live at the World Urban Forum, we had the pleasure of speaking with Professor Ali A. Alraouf, architect, urban thinker, researcher, and educator, whose work is driven by a profound c...
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Season 2. Episode 1: Pietro Elisei
In this episode of Inclusive Urban Futures, recorded live at the World Urban Forum, we had the pleasure of speaking with Pietro Elisei, urban and regional planner, founder of URBASOFIA, and former President of ISOCARP....
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Can We Deliver Inclusive Urban Futures? Reflections from the World Urban Forum by Dr. Orna Rosenfeld
In this opening episode of Season 2, recorded following the 13th World Urban Forum (WUF13) in Baku, Dr Orna Rosenfeld reflects on one of the most significant shifts in international urban policy in recent years: the growing recognition of housi...
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INCLUSIVE URBAN FUTURES - Interview with Prof. Amira Osman
In this episode of Inclusive Urban Futures, we had the honour to interview Professor Amira Osman, a Sudanese/South African Professor of Architecture at the Tshwane University of Technology and the 70th President of The South Af...
INCLUSIVE URBAN FUTURES - Interview with Olga Deutsch
Understanding the dimensions, ramifications and dynamics of systematic exclusion and discrimination is fundamental to raising awareness about it, educating about it, changing culture, and most importantly, addressing it. As painful as exclusion...
INCLUSIVE URBAN FUTURES - Interview with Dr Haris Piplas
Our collective ideas and aspirations touch the ground and are cast in stone through urban design, planning and real estate development. The question of whether we are building inclusive urban futures or not is answered then and there and decide...
INCLUSIVE URBAN FUTURES - Interview with Sena Segbedzi
Ideas and policies are as good as their implementation. There may not be a policy sphere where this is truer than in the cities' pursuits of inclusive urban futures. The poly-crisis the world has been exposed to since 2020 has exace...
INCLUSIVE URBAN FUTURES - Interview with Prof. Tommaso Vitale
The world of scientific research and education is crucial to exploring ways of inclusion and implementing it. Scientific research deepens understanding, education broadens views, but most importantly, academic institutions can act as an essenti...
INCLUSIVE URBAN FUTURES - Interview with Eva Srnová
To celebrate the end of the first mini-series of the Inclusive Urban Futures podcast we have decided to expand the visions of inclusion even further, to go beyond cities and individual disciplines, to national and supranational levels of Europe...
INCLUSIVE URBAN FUTURES - Interview with Wiktor Szydarowski
In this episode of INCLUSIVE URBAN FUTURES with speak with Dr. Wiktor Szydarowski ESPON EGTC Director. The ESPON - The European Observation Network for Territorial Development and Cohesion -aims at promoting and fostering a European...
INCLUSIVE URBAN FUTURES - Interview with Chintan Raveshia
Today, some 55% of the world’s population – 4.2 billion inhabitants – live in cities this proportion will continue to increase rapidly to reach 70% by 2050, according to the World Bank. Urbanism and architecture are disciplines hat have a direc...
INCLUSIVE URBAN FUTURES - Interview with Shraman Jha
COVID-19 has had far-reaching consequences for how we live, work, connect with one another as well as nature and other living things. In this episode of the Inclusive Urban Futures, we speak with Shraman Jha Director of Fund Raising, Marketing ...
INCLUSIVE URBAN FUTURES - Interview with Wei Yang, PhD
COVID-19 crisis has changed the way we use and think about our cities. In many ways, the pandemic has brought people closer together, emphasising the importance of our neighbourhoods and communities. It has changed the way we work. However, Cov...
INCLUSIVE URBAN FUTURES - Interview with Sabina Kekic
There are more than 200 million people in the world who do not live in the country of their birth, and if you are one of them you already discovered that belonging is easy as long as you are in your nation state. But what happens if you leave y...
INCLUSIVE URBAN FUTURES - Interview with Christel Adamou
Inclusion can take many forms and shapes. The world of work is one of them and an important one. COVID-19 crisis has changed the way we work and where we work. These trends will inevitably change the way the cities and territories are planned a...
