Future cities have captured our imaginations for centuries. From Thomas F. Anderson?s 1900 vision for a Future Boston, through Le Corbusier?s 1924 Ville Radieuse, to modern ?future-proof? cities such as Songdo, South Korea, architects and town planners have considered how cities will respond to the movement of people, capital, technology, and ideas.

Future cities have captured our imaginations for centuries. From Thomas F. Anderson?s 1900 vision for a Future Boston, through Le Corbusier?s 1924 Ville Radieuse, to modern ?future-proof? cities such as Songdo, South Korea, architects and town planners have considered how cities will respond to the movement of people, capital, technology, and ideas.Today, groups such as the Senseable City Laboratory at MIT have been created with the goal of suggesting ideas for the city of tomorrow. Through a technique known as ?Futurecraft?, the Senseable City Lab places the designer in a possible future environment and asks them to generate design proposals which could enhance daily life. As we are about to see, some of their ideas would make heads turn even in a galaxy far far away.HubCab
Imagine a city where an autonomous vehicle, such as those being developed by Google and Uber, will drop you to your office at 9am, drive other citizens to doctor appointments, university lectures and lunchtime meetings, and return to the office at 5pm to drive you home. Shared mobility was central to the Senseable City Lab's...