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Welcome to Cushman & Wakefield's Future Lab! My name is Katherine Wyeland. We invite you to explore our research on the Future of Cities, contained in the various rooms of our Lab. Click on the menu at the top to navigate around the rooms of the Lab, and click on the numbers to interact with people and objects within rooms. We will add new research every week, so make sure to check back for more! Why not start by viewing our Methodology video (2) to see how we created our Vision for 2040.
Reception
City Archives
Experts
Temporal accelerator
Visioning
Consulting
My City
Analytics
Newsroom
Introduction
Research Method
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Welcome to Cushman & Wakefield's Futures Lab! My name is Katherine Wyeland. We invite you to explore our research on the Future of Cities, contained in the various rooms of our lab. Click on the menu on the top right to explore the rooms, and click on the tabs below for more detail. We will add new research every week, so make sure to check back for more! Why not start by viewing our Methodology video to see how we created our Vision for 2040, or watch our critique of futurology approaches.
We invite you to explore our research on the Future of Cities, contained in the various rooms of our lab. Click on the menu at the top to navigate around the rooms of the lab, and click on the numbers to interact with people and objects within rooms.
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Welcome to Cushman & Wakefield's Futures Lab! My name is Katherine Wyeland. We invite you to explore our research on the Future of Cities, contained in the various rooms of our lab. Click on the menu at the top to navigate around the rooms of the Lab, and click on the numbers to interact with people and objects within rooms. We will add new research every week, so make sure to check back for more! Why not start by viewing our Methodology video (2) to see how we created our Vision for 2040, or watch our critique of futurology approaches (3).
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Futurology
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Welcome to our Archives. I’m the City Archivist. In order to understand how cities might change in the future, a good place to start is how they have changed in the past. Here, you can explore our synopsis of urban change (2), a timeline of major events in the history of cities (3) or click on the archives on the right (4) for regularly updated articles on Urbanism.
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Urbanism
Timeline
A history of change
Welcome to our Archives. I’m the City Archivist. In order to understand how cities might change in the future, a good place to start is how they have changed in the past. Here, you can explore our synopsis of urban change, a timeline of major events in the history of cities or click on 'Urbanism' for regularly updated articles.
New Perspectives on Urbanism, written by our Cushman & Wakefield Experts...
COMING SOON
Meet our experts! In order to frame our vision, we first considered the big trends shaping the world. Click on (2) to access short reports on how various trends might unfold to 2040.
Forces for Change
Meet our experts! In order to frame our vision, we first considered the big trends shaping the world. Click on ‘Forces For Change’ to read our experts reports.
The Year 2040
Social Animals
Hermits
Hyper Reality
The Grid
Hi again. I find it helps to think up here on the roof! Here you can speak with our futurist to understand our Vision for cities in 2040 (2). Once you've done that, you can see how this vision drills down in elements of our cities (3). Or if you like to explore other people's visions for 2040, we've curated a series of interesting links for you to explore (4). Enjoy!
Other visions of the future
Elements of the 2040 City
Our 2040 vision
Hi again. I find it helps to think up here on the roof! Here you can speak with our futurist to understand our Vision for cities in 2040. Once you've done that, you can see how this vision drills down in elements of our cities. Or if you like to explore other people's visions for 2040, we've curated a series of interesting links for you to explore. Enjoy!
We are curating a series of other people's visions for the future of cities...
Meet Cushman & Wakefield's consultants Click on one of them to explore research and opinions on the Future of Cities relevant to their area of expertise.
JON
Retail, Logistics & Industrial
Karen
Industry Practice Areas
DAVID
Specialist Markets
BEN
Offices
Industry practice areas
Meet Cushman & Wakefield's consultants. Click on one of the topics to explore our consultants research and opinions on the future of cities.
Webinar: Future of Offices - What's Next for Workplace Design?
WATCH NOW
Take a look at some recent insights below for Offices:
FIND OUT MORE
Take a look at some recent insights below for Specialist Markets:
The Bigger (Motion) Picture Cinema Report
Take a look at some recent insights below for Retail, Logistics & Industrial:
Our future insights about Industry Practice Areas
Meet Cushman & Wakefield's consultants. Click on one of them to explore research and opinions on the Future of Cities relevant to their area of expertise.
Take a look at some recent insights below for Retail, Logistics & Industrial: “Talking Heads, Talking Sheds” - Where Next For The Market?
What’s Next for Offices
Office of the Future Revisited
The Future of Retail, Leisure, Entertainment & Wellbeing
Feel Good - The Future of Retail, Leisure, Entertainment & Wellbeing
WATCH HERE
Webinar: Three Key Themes Shaping the Future of UK Housing Supply
Future of UK housing supply
READ HERE
“Talking Heads, Talking Sheds” - Where Next For The Market?
Future of Food Chains
UK Logistics & Industrial Outlook Report
So what does our vision mean for your city? Our experts across the region have unpacked these trends for some of our major cities and produced a short report for each. You can explore these reports by clicking on the map (2).
London
Bristol
Birmingham
Leeds
Edinburgh
Manchester
My City Reports
Coming Soon
Map
So what does our vision mean for your city? Our experts across the region have unpacked these trends for some of our major cities and produced a short report for each. You can explore these reports by clicking on 'Map'.
DUBLIN
CORK
Glasgow
Hi - I'm Daria. Welcome to our Data Science lab We've curated data sets and built machine learning models to help our clients better understand our cities and make good decisions. Click on the screen (2) to find out more.
Hi - I'm Daria. Welcome to our Data Science lab We've curated data sets and built machine learning models to help our clients better understand our cities and make good decisions. Click on the 'Analytics' tab to find out more.
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News just in…! Welcome to our newsroom, where you can find the latest news and reports relating to cities. Click on the screen (2) to explore.
Breaking news
News just in...! Welcome to our newsroom, where you can find the latest news and reports relating to cities.
Migrant Cities of the Future – The Climate Crisis Will Require Mass Movement.
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The Importance of Retrofitting a Residential Property.
Explore the latest news below impacting the future of cities…
Smart Cities leading Europe’s Transition Climate.
Ireland’s Future Cities: Current Plans Need Radical Change to Meet Demands of Rapid Population Growth.
Why Japan is Building Smart Cities From Scratch
Are 20-Minute Communities the Future of Cities?
Northern Cities hit Harder by the Cost of Living
The Future of Rail
