Branded Cities Report

Can We Avoid an Urban Dystopia?

With two-thirds of humanity predicted to be living in urban environments by 2050, cities need to be able to sustain the growing demands on their infrastructure. But if governments don’t have the resources to do this, will the role of city-makers fall entirely to corporations? And if so, will the metropolis of the future become a branded utopia or a commercial dystopia?

These are the questions that lie at the heart of our new placemaking presentation, which we debuted at the inaugural SXSW Cities Summit.

For those of you who weren’t in Austin, we’ve also created a PDF report based upon the same research.

*This is a downloadable PDF report. Please consider the environment before printing.