Ep. 063: How To Design A City Of The Future
Guest: Darryl Condon, Civic Design Specialist
No matter the arguments for or against climate, the design of cities has to change.
That is according to Darryl Condon, a civic design specialist, who says it’s a change that includes fewer cars, better transit, greater density and liveable spaces to make city living fun and affordable.
Condon says going from now to the city of the future will be an evolutionary and complicated process. "The city is an organism: it consists of a whole number of elements that operate by their own principles and their own dynamics. At times, we applied overly simplistic ways of understanding and influencing those things and not recognized the interrelationships. Moving forward involves planning decisions, funding – which government and how many levels of government will have a voice and a role. At the other end of the spectrum is the community’s role in shaping those decisions and how are they going to feel connected to those decisions."
