INCLUSIVE URBAN FUTURES

About INCLUSIVE URBAN FUTURES

Inclusive Urban Futures explores one of the defining questions of our time: how do we build inclusive urban futures in a world shaped by rapid urbanisation, technological disruption, demographic change, climate transition, and shifting patterns of investment and power? Hosted by Dr. Orna Rosenfeld, global advisor on housing systems, investment and inclusion, the podcast brings together leaders, policymakers, researchers, investors, practitioners and innovators from around the world to examine the forces shaping the future of cities and societies. Through conversations, reflections and thought leadership, Inclusive Urban Futures explores topics including housing affordability, urban development, social cohesion, migration, climate adaptation, digital transformation, artificial intelligence (AI), governance, and the evolving geography of urban growth. Episodes draw on perspectives from across disciplines, sectors and global regions, connecting global trends with practical experience and implementation. Produced by the Inclusive Urban Futures Association, the podcast creates a space for dialogue across boundaries and borders — linking ideas with action, policy with practice, and ambition with delivery. It is a platform for exploring how inclusion can be embedded in the systems, institutions and investments that will shape the future of urban life. Learn more: www.inclusiveurbanfutures.org (http://www.inclusiveurbanfutures.org/) Contact: hello@inclusiveurbanfutures.org (mailto:hello@inclusiveurbanfutures.org)

Publisher

Orna Rosenfeld

Category

education · government · science

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

18 Jan 2022

Latest episode

15 Jul 2026

Latest episodes

18 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   15 Jul 2026

   Season 2. Episode 4: Keith Thorpe

   In this episode of Inclusive Urban Futures, recorded live at the World Urban Forum, we had the pleasure of speaking with Keith Thorpe, an internationally recognised expert in housing, urban development, and public policy, whose career spans more than five decades of public service and international collaboration. Drawing on his extensive experience in housing policy, planning, and local government—including senior leadership roles within the UK Government and his work with the OECD—Keith refl...

2. 

   8 Jul 2026

   Season 2. Episode 3: Antonio Campagnoli

   In this episode of Inclusive Urban Futures, recorded live at the World Urban Forum, we had the pleasure of speaking with Antonio Campagnoli, lawyer, real estate expert, and World President of FIABCI – the International Real Estate Federation. Our host Dr Orna Rosenfeld, and Antonio reflect on one of the greatest challenges facing cities today: how to rebuild communities in an increasingly fragmented world. While our cities continue to grow, many people feel more isolated than ever before.&nbs...

3. 

   1 Jul 2026

   SEASON 2. EPISODE 2: Ali A. Alraouf

   In this episode of Inclusive Urban Futures, recorded live at the World Urban Forum, we had the pleasure of speaking with Professor Ali A. Alraouf, architect, urban thinker, researcher, and educator, whose work is driven by a profound commitment to social justice, cultural identity, and more inclusive cities. Throughout the conversation, Professor Alraouf reflects on the experiences that shaped his professional journey and inspired his lifelong commitment to creating urban environments where p...

4. 

   24 Jun 2026

   Season 2. Episode 1: Pietro Elisei

   In this episode of Inclusive Urban Futures, recorded live at the World Urban Forum, we had the pleasure of speaking with Pietro Elisei, urban and regional planner, founder of URBASOFIA, and former President of ISOCARP. As cities around the world face growing pressures from housing shortages, climate change, social fragmentation, and economic uncertainty, Pietro invites us to look beyond individual challenges and consider the city as a complex and interconnected system. While housing remains o...

5. 

   17 Jun 2026

   Can We Deliver Inclusive Urban Futures? Reflections from the World Urban Forum by Dr. Orna Rosenfeld

   In this opening episode of Season 2, recorded following the 13th World Urban Forum (WUF13) in Baku, Dr Orna Rosenfeld reflects on one of the most significant shifts in international urban policy in recent years: the growing recognition of housing as a strategic system shaping economic resilience, social cohesion, climate adaptation, territorial development, and the future of cities. Drawing on over two decades of work across 56 countries, Orna explores why housing has become one of the defini...

6. 

   20 Apr 2023

   INCLUSIVE URBAN FUTURES - Interview with Prof. Amira Osman

   In this episode of Inclusive Urban Futures, we had the honour to interview Professor Amira Osman, a Sudanese/South African Professor of Architecture at the Tshwane University of Technology and the 70th President of The South African Institute of Architects (SAIA). What is the most inspiring about Professor Osman’s work is her unshakable commitment to building inclusion in some of the most challenging places in the world where in her words, 'separation in the built environment was engine...

7. 

   9 Mar 2023

   INCLUSIVE URBAN FUTURES - Interview with Olga Deutsch

   Understanding the dimensions, ramifications and dynamics of systematic exclusion and discrimination is fundamental to raising awareness about it, educating about it, changing culture, and most importantly, addressing it. As painful as exclusion is, understanding it and deconstructing it is a fundamental first step if we are to move towards inclusive futures. Inclusive Urban Future was honoured to interview NGO Monitor Vice President Olga Deutsch. A leader in her own right Olga Deutsch i...

8. 

   23 Feb 2023

   INCLUSIVE URBAN FUTURES - Interview with Dr Haris Piplas

   Our collective ideas and aspirations touch the ground and are cast in stone through urban design, planning and real estate development. The question of whether we are building inclusive urban futures or not is answered then and there and decided for generations. This question is critical in peacetime but even more so in the aftermath of an armed conflict. The Inclusive Urban Future was delighted to interview Dr Haris Piplas, Senior Consultant, Co-Directing Urban Design and Planning Init...

9. 

   9 Feb 2023

   INCLUSIVE URBAN FUTURES - Interview with Sena Segbedzi

   Ideas and policies are as good as their implementation. There may not be a policy sphere where this is truer than in the cities' pursuits of inclusive urban futures. The poly-crisis the world has been exposed to since 2020 has exacerbated inequalities across people and places, especially in large cities, where vulnerable groups such as migrants, the poor, women, and the elderly, among other population groups, were hit hard. As a response to the growing gap between the rich and the...

10. 

    2 Feb 2023

    INCLUSIVE URBAN FUTURES - Interview with Prof. Tommaso Vitale

    The world of scientific research and education is crucial to exploring ways of inclusion and implementing it. Scientific research deepens understanding, education broadens views, but most importantly, academic institutions can act as an essential vehicles for societal transformation needed for ataining inclusive futures. To this end, Inclusive Urban Futures is honoured to launch the 2023 series with Prof. Tommaso Vitale, the Dean of the Paris Institute of Political Studies 'Sciences Po' ...

11. 

    16 May 2022

    INCLUSIVE URBAN FUTURES - Interview with Eva Srnová

    To celebrate the end of the first mini-series of the Inclusive Urban Futures podcast we have decided to expand the visions of inclusion even further, to go beyond cities and individual disciplines, to national and supranational levels of European diplomacy. To this end, we are honored to introduce our special guest Eva Srnová Diplomat at the Permanent Representation of the Czech Republic to the European Union in charge of the Cohesion Policy, Regional Policy, Urban Matters and Just Tran...

12. 

    5 Apr 2022

    INCLUSIVE URBAN FUTURES - Interview with Wiktor Szydarowski

    In this episode of INCLUSIVE URBAN FUTURES with speak with Dr. Wiktor Szydarowski ESPON EGTC Director. The ESPON - The European Observation Network for Territorial Development and Cohesion -aims at promoting and fostering a European territorial dimension in development and cooperation by providing evidence, knowledge transfer and policy learning to public authorities and other policy actors at all levels. As part of a renewal and upgrade of ESPON for the period 2014-2020 and beyond, an ...

13. 

    22 Mar 2022

    INCLUSIVE URBAN FUTURES - Interview with Chintan Raveshia

    Today, some 55% of the world’s population – 4.2 billion inhabitants – live in cities this proportion will continue to increase rapidly to reach 70% by 2050, according to the World Bank. Urbanism and architecture are disciplines hat have a direct link and defining impact on people’s lives. The critical question that we must ask, is how to ensure cities are inclusive today and ensure inclusive urban futures tomorrow. The discussions on inclusion often focus on socio-economic aspects of people's...

14. 

    8 Mar 2022

    INCLUSIVE URBAN FUTURES - Interview with Shraman Jha

    COVID-19 has had far-reaching consequences for how we live, work, connect with one another as well as nature and other living things. In this episode of the Inclusive Urban Futures, we speak with Shraman Jha Director of Fund Raising, Marketing and Communications at World Wide Fund for Nature-India (WWF India). In 2020 Director Jha left the corporate world and dedicated his career to the common good. The mission of WWF India is to stop the degradation of the planet’s natural environment ...

15. 

    22 Feb 2022

    INCLUSIVE URBAN FUTURES - Interview with Wei Yang, PhD

    COVID-19 crisis has changed the way we use and think about our cities. In many ways, the pandemic has brought people closer together, emphasising the importance of our neighbourhoods and communities. It has changed the way we work. However, Covid- 19 has also exposed the inequality that has existed before the pandemic and raised the matters of inclusion high on the recovery agenda. These issues have a direct effect on the present and the future of urban planning and design. In this inte...

16. 

    8 Feb 2022

    INCLUSIVE URBAN FUTURES - Interview with Sabina Kekic

    There are more than 200 million people in the world who do not live in the country of their birth, and if you are one of them you already discovered that belonging is easy as long as you are in your nation state. But what happens if you leave your country of birth for better or worse? What about belonging? Inclusion? What about those who due to dire circumstances had to leave their countries as in haste as refugees? Inclusion for migrants and refugees is one of the primordial que...

17. 

    25 Jan 2022

    INCLUSIVE URBAN FUTURES - Interview with Christel Adamou

    Inclusion can take many forms and shapes. The world of work is one of them and an important one. COVID-19 crisis has changed the way we work and where we work. These trends will inevitably change the way the cities and territories are planned and built in the future. Therefore, discussing the meaning, opportunities and challenges related to inclusion in the world of work is of crucial importance when considering inclusive urban futures. In this episode, we speak with Christel Adamou (M...

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    18 Jan 2022

    INCLUSIVE URBAN FUTURES - Launch

    #Inclusiverecovery, #inclusivegrowth, #diversity and #inclusion are some of the key light motives cities, organisations and businesses across the globe aspire to in recovering from the #covidー19 crisis as well as addressing equity challenges that existed well before the pandemic. But what does it mean to be #inclusive? For whom and where? How to achieve inclusion while addressing seemingly insurmountable challenges of transforming #urban #futures? Let’s be honest the term inclusion is...

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