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Francesca Froy: Rebuilding Urban Complexity

Francesca Froy: Rebuilding Urban Complexity

Update: 2025-11-03
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Francesca Froy, Lecturer in Sustainable Urban Development at the University of Oxford and Fellow of Kellogg College, joins us on The Century of Cities. Francesca explores how cities evolve as living, complex systems, shaped by design, policy, and the countless small, interconnected decisions made every day. She argues that to build sustainable cities of the future, we must learn from the past: valuing walkability, connectivity, and human interaction over technological quick fixes. Rather than controlling cities from the top down, she calls for policymakers to observe, steward, and harness the natural complexity already at work, allowing cities to evolve intelligently on their own terms.

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Francesca Froy: Rebuilding Urban Complexity

Francesca Froy: Rebuilding Urban Complexity

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