The Future of Urban Jungle

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Sondo in South Korea was built as a green city, but the weeds were already poking through the concrete. The smartest cities of the future are going to be ones that use nature and green infrastructure for their own protection. That could be introducing more social housing, implementing rent controls, getting locals involved in nature projects. And that's what makes it a modern city - not its kind of gleaming skyscrapers.

As the planet warms, and intense heatwaves become the norm, our urban environments need a radical rethink to keep them habitable. So what do we want the cities of the future to look like? In the first of our special series of episodes looking at what a future world could look like, Madeleine Finlay speaks to author and historian Ben Wilson, Prof Jessica Davies and Prof Diane Jones Allen about how to create cities that are fairer, greener and more self-reliant.. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/sciencepod