Climate crisis gives us an opportunity to reimagine how we live for the better. We're going to be looking for a future that's more sustainable than the future. To form an idea of what the alternative future city might be like, I headed to Colchester in the east of England with historian Ben Wilson.
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
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