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REPORT
THE AUGMENTED CITY
12.2024

“What is the next disruptive technology to reshape the public realm, and how can cities better anticipate its effects upon arrival?” asks Greg’s groundbreaking report on the implications of augmented reality at urban scale, The Augmented City. Comprising two years of research and foresight, this timely call to action lands just as Google rejoins Apple and Meta in the race to overlay their proprietary technologies on reality itself. Read the report, or listen to Greg’s interview with The New Urban Order’s Diana Lind.

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INTERVIEW
LONDON SPEAKER BUREAU
11.2024

In this exclusive interview with the London Speaker Bureau, Greg discusses the future of cities in an era of AI and climate change, and what this means for both organizations—which face 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 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 2025. Get in touch if you’d like him to do the same for your organization.

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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, 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 that he developed with Lev Kushner last year. If you’re a mayor interested in this idea, get in touch.

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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.

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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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