There’s a great interview of Ken Greenberg on MetropolisMag where he speaks about the future of urban planning and the future of the city. Greenberg sees a number of trends for sweeping changes on how we live and work. He compares the profound changes of the current urban form with the post-WWII decades and the rise of automobile-oriented development, with those changes now becoming obsolete.
“We’ve reached the end of the lifespan of much of the highway infrastructure that was built after WWII. We’ll see a major retooling of the infrastructure of the city. We’re going to see an incredible investment in public transit. We’ll see congestion pricing—which is now only in a handful of cities—applied pretty much across the board. This will enable, both from a capital and an operating standpoint, a huge reinvestment in public transit. We’ll see buildings that put energy back into the grid.”
We profiled Greenberg in V1 Magazine back in August when he spoke at the GeoWeb Conference. In our interview, Greenberg discusses applying technology to build collaborative multidisciplinary teams to solve complex urban planning problems. You can read that interview here.
