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LONDON SPEAKER BUREAU
11.2024

In this exclusive interview with the London Speaker Bureau, Greg discusses the future of cities in an era of both AI and climate change, and what this means for both organizations — which face both enormous challenges and opportunities posed by rapidly-evolving AI — and people, who are finding it easier to make friends with AIs than in real life.

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ESSAY
EMERGING TRENDS IN REAL ESTATE 2025
11.2024

In his essay “Drones, Meals, and Automobiles,” Greg explores the delivery- and automation-driven fusion of retail and industrial real estate in the latest annual edition of the Urban Land Institute’s and PwC’s Emerging Trends in Real Estate. He’ll dig deeper into these trends in his workshop and keynote for ULI New Mexico in January — get in touch if you’d like him to do the same for your organization.

Read the essay – Download the report

PODCAST
ADAPT
11.2024

Greg joins ADAPT hosts Jessica Mederson and Monika Serrano to explore how climate change is reshaping America's economic geography and migration patterns. They discuss why investors follow population flows rather than climate risk data, examine the cultural barriers to northern migration, challenge conventional wisdom about “climate havens,” and highlight how policy decisions, not natural forces, have shaped where Americans live and work. Most provocatively, they explore how the stability of our climate has underpinned our entire global economy – and what happens as that stability erodes.

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KEYNOTE
PLUGGED IN
10.2024

Greg spoke at Tulsa Remote’s “PluggedIn,” a conference dedicated to remote work and its ability to revitalize people and communities. He revisited the city-led “Department of Hospitality” proposal he developed with Lev Kushner last year. (Links to Greg’s talk and their essay below.) If you’re a mayor interested in this idea, get in touch.

Watch Greg’s talk — Read the essay

ESSAY
SOMETHING NEW UNDER THE SUN
08.2024

“Something New Under The Sun” is an essay orginally published in the 2023 book Renewing the Dream: The Mobility Revolution and the Future of Los Angeles (Rizzoli). In it, Greg summarizes the last decade of LA’s transportation innovation, including unprecedented investment in public transit, “micromobility”, “ghost kitchens”, and cities writing their own software to regulate public space.

Order the book – Read the essay

ESSAY
DARABASE
07.2024

“Taken together, this twin deﬁnition of AIR — as AI augmenting the world and AR giving form to AI — points to a new trajectory for both technologies that is fundamentally urban,” Greg writes for the augmented reality advertising ﬁrm Darabase, in this excerpt from his forthcoming report The Augmented City.

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KEYNOTE
NAIOP I.CON EAST
06.2024

“Autonomous everything” is already here — the question is, what can we do about it? That was the theme of Greg’s keynote address at NAIOP’s I.CON East, the leading event for industrial real estate. In addition to an insatiable hunger for data centers — and an unquenchable thirst for the energy to run them — the rise of generative AI will have a profound impact on the built environment.

Read NAIOP’s recap – Listen to his post-event podcast

KEYNOTE
DLA PIPER GLOBAL REAL ESTATE SUMMIT
05.2024

Greg delivered the opening keynote at DLA Piper’s 18th Global Real Estate Summit in Chicago. After debunking the urban “doom loop” myth, his talk explored how changes in technology, affordability, and people’s desires is remaking the both the built environment and American landscape.

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