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This episode features Guillaume Charny-Brunet, Co-Founder and Head of Ventures at SPACE10, Mark Watts, Executive Director at C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group, and Morten Kjer Jeppesen, Director and Team Lead at Gehl - Making Cities for People.
Our guests give their insights into what makes up a sustainable city and examples of projects on the ground that are bringing ideas to life:
- Guillaume lists five principles for a sustainable city, sharing what Copenhagen is doing as an example.
- Mark notes the shift away from city center-centric planning to more mixed and shared-use spaces.
- Morten gives a definition of a sustainable city and offers a vector to think about design: the daily journey of an individual from waking up to going to bed.
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