In October 2015, eight PhD students were awarded Future Cities Prize Fellowships to present their ideas of what cities will be like at the first annual Future Cities conference in July 2016.
They each received £2000 to develop a short research paper and to summarise their ideas about how future cities may be designed, operated and lived within to meet social, economic and environmental aims. They will also present a poster showcasing their ideas at the first annual Future Cities conference in Cambridge in June 2016.
The Future Cities programme is funded through a generous gift from Capital & Counties and is being hosted by the Department of Land Economy, in collaboration with the Cambridge Forum for Sustainability and the Environment.
The fellows are:
- Brian Chiang
- Charles Barlow
- Fernando Bucheli
- Hannah Baker
- Kirsten Van Fossen
- Kristen MacAskill
- Mingfei Ma
- Simon Price
Their papers and posters will cover a broad range of different topics ranging from....