At Goodman, we make space for our customers’ greatest ambitions. That’s why we’ve spoken to inspirational experts around the world to uncover insights into the key trends shaping our customers’ businesses - today, tomorrow and beyond.
Hear from Professor Greg Clark, Group Advisor, Future Cities at HSBC.
"When we think about the evolution of cities they’ve clearly changed and developed their roles at different periods in history.
In the past, we thought a successful city was a city that had lots of office jobs in the centre, lots of suburban housing on the fringes, and had a nice set of facilities, services, and public space.
And of course, all of those things remain important, but the impact of digitisation, decarbonisation and of population growth, when trying to produce cities that are cleaner, greener, and more compact, with our awareness of the planetary imperative of climate change, cities are becoming places where transitions to new platforms and new technologies are occurring.
One of the unexpected impacts of the use of digital platforms in the way people work, the way they consume, and the way they travel, of course, is that our cities are starting to feel a bit different. You’ll see many more delivery vans in the middle of the day, trains and buses that are less full than they used to be. Offices are reinventing themselves so that they become places of fun and creativity.
So, when we talk about agile land uses, we mean that there’s a new mixed-use approach in the way that land and buildings are used within our cities. So, our city centres will not simply be office districts, they’ll be multipurpose experience districts. Our suburbs will not just be places to live, but they’ll also be places where we work, where we consume, where we have a high quality of amenities and experiences.
So that as population comes back to cities, we will see people living in a broader range of places, doing their jobs with a new mix of technology and face-to-face, consuming in different ways, and travelling using different modes or perhaps less frequently.
So, there’s no exodus from the city, there’s rather the city taking a new shape and a new form."
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