The costs of the inner city will drive
the revitalisation of suburban districts
Revitalised suburbs
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Green belts will still be with us,
and barely nibbled at
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Green Belts
and NIMBYism
By 2040, cities will have sharper distinctions between bustling
district centres and sleepy suburbs
Polycentricity
and polarisation
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A lack of city centre stock will stimulate a new generation of suburban business parks
Business parks
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Placemaking attracts talented
citizens, making placemaking
more challenging in 2040
Placemaking
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The UK will have a new city by 2040
Garden cities
City centre high street will be much more mixed and change more rapidly
City centre shopping and mixed use
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Rising densities in all our
cities will create new social
and economic opportunities
Density in cities
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E-commerce will represent over third of all retail sales – which means bigger, higher boxes in cities
Urban logistics
Drones
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Drones won’t overfly our cities with parcels until formidable regulatory concerns are overcome
Traffic congestion in cities is getting worse, but traffic management will get much smarter
Traffic management innovation
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New techniques like vertical farming will bring more bring crop production to the cities by 2040
Urban farming
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We can expect at least two new city airport runways by 2040
Airport expansion
Over 10,000 more underground private spas, gyms and cinemas in our well-heeled city neighbourhoods by 2040
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Underground basements
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Over station development could provide significant housing in London by 2040 – but not in other cities
Over station development
Culture, innovation and governance have always been, and still will be, the drivers of the successful city in 2040
What makes a successful city?
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