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Video: How should we build the cities of the future?

Lai-Choo Malone Lee

How can we design and plan our cities in the future so that they can grow, harvest, recover and regenerate its resources?

Lai-Choo Malone Lee, Director of the Centre for Sustainable Asian Cities at the National University of Singapore, explains why we need a more integrated approach to designing cities for an age of scarcity.

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