By 2050, 68% of the world’s population will be living in urban hubs, which highlights the intensified role cities have across future innovation. Digitalization and the energy transition have created novice urban dynamics that urge humanity to evolve beyond the conventional ways of how we organize and manage urban settlements to transform them into highly-resilient economic and societal engines.

However, the cities of today bear a diversified pattern of local urban challenges that force the one-size-fits-all paradigms to become obsolete. A localized approach to urban problem-solving can become the catalyst of context-rich innovation across all things urban and create a set of livable habitats for generations to come.