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RETROFITTING OUR CITIES FOR THE FUTURE

Why can’t we complete the incomplete Foreshore freeways? Why don’t our cities have vibrant public squares like Puerta del Sol in Madrid? Can’t they bring back trams? What if we built a High Line like New York?’

Very few dinner parties pass by without these questions being thrown my way when I share my passion for improving cities, communities and spaces in my work at Our Future Cities.

In a period of rapid urbanisation – 900 million people are expected to move into African cities in the coming few decades – economic and political volatility, a housing crisis, and our energy crisis, for the individual or household,

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