What Should Cities Be Like in 2050?

National Geographic gave us a dream assignment. Here’s how our urban design team tackled it.

SOM
8 min readMar 26, 2019

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Cross-sectional rendering of SOM’s speculative Future City, developed with National Geographic for the April 2019 “Cities” issue. © SOM

By Peter J. Kindel

How would you design a “city of the future”? Susan Goldberg, the editor in chief of National Geographic magazine, posed this very question to me last year after we met at a sustainability conference in…

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