Brilliant Cities

For smart cities to stay smart, just like humans, they need to keep learning - by being designed for adaptation to new technologies and trends. Urbanization is accelerating cultural and commercial concentration, in ways that will change politics and even identity in the decades ahead.

Analyses and Insights

City as State
Geopolitical impacts of the global urban population boom
Infrastructure to 2100
Chinas Belt and Road Initiative is a multi-trillion dollar infrastructure project that will link West and East over land and sea; with goods, power, and data.
New Urban Nomads
Rethinking citizen services, city revenues, and more for an age when residents flow freely
How cities learn – a new vision for smarter cities
Digital and green are todays trends, and in a citys lifespan, many more will come. Cities can stay smart by "learning" - planning today for changes their future citizens will make in centuries ahead

Scans and Snapshots