Disruptive cities

Where are cities going? What challenges will you face in the coming years? What elements should we take into account when we have to make the decisions that will shape the urban landscape to come?

Our experts have studied this new reality to describe the current situation of cities, to analyse what trends and processes are transforming them and to pose a series of challenges that they will face in the coming years.

Cities already account for more than half of the planet’s population. Everything also suggests that a large part of the demographic growth expected for this century will also be concentrated in urban centres. The incorporation of more and more individuals into cities poses important challenges for their growth, while presenting opportunities to achieve the integral sustainability of cities: Environmental, Social and Economic.

Smartcities

We are facing one of the most fascinating challenges facing cities around the world: how to design the city of the future in a way that provides socially sustainable benefits and provides personalized services for citizens who have endless travel options from point A to point B. What may be good for one person may not be good for the city as a whole, so how do we do it?

Global megatrends, which are transforming businesses and society at an accelerated pace, are converging in cities. As the world urbanizes, these convergences shape our lives more and more.

The development of cities is not unrelated to the emergence of disruptive technologies. Some of them have triggered changes in mentality and the emergence of new business models, processes that will alter or are already altering the way we understand the city.

Below, we will see how certain megatrends affect cities:

Among the great challenges of the cities of the future, the experts of the Future Trends Forum highlight the following:

• The new forms of mobility will have to be adapted to the current infrastructure and equipment.
• Create a regulation in line with the new realities, with collaborative and inclusive governance.
• Perhaps the greatest of all challenges is the fight against inequality, the only option for developing a cohesive society.
• Finally, as cities become increasingly dependent on technology, the enormous challenge of public and private cybersecurity arises.