Vitruvian
The urban experts for better futures
What we do
Vision creation
We help cities and communities define ambitious, long-term visions that inspire growth and provide clear direction, tailored to the unique needs and aspirations of each urban environment.
Strategising
Our consulting services develop actionable strategies that bridge long-term visions and current realities, ensuring alignment across sectors and adaptability to changing conditions.
Experimentation
We guide cities through structured experimentation and innovation, allowing them to test new ideas, learn from small-scale failures, and implement effective solutions with measurable results.
Smarter City Flywheel
Our Smarter City Flywheel framework ensures a self-reinforcing feedback loop between vision, strategies, and tactics, creating sustainable urban evolution and continuous improvement.
Latest from the blog
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The metabolic city: How entrepreneurial capitalism can shape tomorrow’s urban environments
Imagine a young software engineer named Maya, fresh out of university in a mid-sized European city. She has a brilliant idea for an AI-driven app…
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The car-free metropolis: Operationalising car-independent urban design for ecological and social resilience
Imagine Maria, a young mother in the Spanish city of Pontevedra, starting her day. She steps out of her apartment, her two children in tow,…
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Reimagining our cities: The power of adaptive reuse over demolition
Imagine strolling through the bustling streets of New York City’s Meatpacking District, where a once-derelict elevated railway line, abandoned for decades, now thrives as the…
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Tackling urban heat islands: Real-world and emerging solutions
It’s 8 pm on a Tuesday in the summer. You’ve just stepped out of an air-conditioned office block in the CBD, expecting the cool relief…
WTF4Cities? Podcast
We create the city so it matters what we decide and do. What is The Future for Cities? podcast is a platform to introduce the different approaches to our urban futures and generate conversations around them. We don’t have to accept every approach but it helps to know about and learn from them. We summarise research articles and interview urban experts and legends who are actively and consciously working for the better future for our cities – thus, humanity.
Check out the wtf4cities.com website
Latest episode on the WTF podcast
- Are you interested how sustainability can be profitable? Debate of the book titled Making Sustainability Profitable from 2023, by Jasper Steinhausen. This is a great preparation to our next interview with Jasper Steinhausen in episode 408 talking about sustainability as a platform for innovation. Since we are investigating the future of cities, I thought it […]
Meet the team
Fanni Melles, PhD
Fanni is a future of cities researcher, an architect by profession, and a project manager by experience. Her international expertise encompasses design, construction, and project oversight. Her unique ability is channeling chaos and ambiguity into structured, practical systems, addressing critical questions and enhancing processes. She serves as a catalyst for urban innovation, shaping ever-evolving urban landscapes.
Ben Vass
Ben is a data magician and future enthusiast besides being a computer scientist and a pragmatic problem-solver. With international IT expertise, he’s tackled swarm intelligence, spectral graphs, fraud detection, and GNNs. He views everything as interlinked networks and passionately contributes to Open Source. Straddling two worlds, Ben’s unique perspective sees a universe which is interconnected across all levels.
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