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“Space is becoming a sparse resource in cities around the world, and to some extent, also in Copenhagen. And this obviously challenges us in the way that we develop the city.”

Welcome to The Urban Question, a special series of the Urban Report podcast from FORESIGHT Climate & Energy in association with Bloxhub, the Nordic hub for sustainable urbanisation and the WRLDCTY forum.

In each episode, the team at FORESIGHT will try to answer a single pressing question or dilemma at the heart of regenerative planning efforts. Using Bloxhub’s home of Copenhagen as our living laboratory, The Urban Question will also look at how other cities are adapting to the demands of the 21st-century citizen.

For this third and final episode of the series, FORESIGHT’s Sean Carroll explores what happens when cities run out of space. With evermore competition for housing and land for new builds at a premium, how do we accommodate everyone wanting to make a home in a city?

Sean is joined by:

• Lars Jensen, the Chief Architect for the City of Copenhagen
• Steven Cornwell, Global Director at ERA, a consultancy that uses data and analytics to unlock the potential of neighbourhoods, towns, and cities.

Are there new ways we can maximise the space in cities? Or should we be looking in other places to live? Can jobs be transferred to different parts of your country?

Let us know in the comments below or over on LinkedIn, where you’ll find a community of like-minded individuals working to create a decarbonised economy.

We have come to the end of our series exploring the Urban Question with Bloxhub and WRLDCTY. We hope you enjoyed it. If you could like, rate, comment, and share the series with your networks, it will go a long way in helping us continue conversations and projects like these in the future.

Thanks for listening.

“If you only go for consensus, you're only going to get a short-range outcome; big, long-range thinking is hard. It's not popular.”

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