Building Sustainable Cities of the Future

Dr. Justin Bishop is a Research Associate in Transport Analysis at the Centre for Sustainable Road Freight and involved in the Energy Efficient Cities Initiative at the University of Cambridge Department of Engineering. He is also a Visiting Research Associate at the University of Oxford’s Transport Studies Unit. Formerly, he was a James Martin Research Fellow at the University of Oxford’s Institute for Carbon and Energy Reduction in Transport (ICERT).

• Introduction.- Urban air quality.- Natural resources and resource efficiency.- Transport.- Energy supply.- Water and sanitation.- Buildings.- Urbanisation, migration and social welfare.- Economy, competitiveness and innovation.- Urban planning and infrastructure.- Reducing the ecological footprint and harnessing ecosystem services.- Circular urban economy.- Resilience and robustness to impacts of climate change.- Urban infrastructure with social equity at its core.- Connected cities and measured cities.- Conclusion.