Five things cities should be doing in the next decade

By Vicki Sellick, Nesta’s Executive Director of Programmes, who leads the UK foundation’s work supporting innovation in cities and governments. 

As a decade of change comes to an end, what will the 2020s bring for cities?

Much of our work with city leaders and governments starts from an immediate pressing need–a housing crisis or a rise in knife crime–but so often moves onto preparing for the future trends that will change all of our lives, and cities as we know them.

But with the pace of change showing no sign of slowing–from the ever increasing power of artificial intelligence, the rise of robotics and automation and the drive to carbon neutrality, to the continuing population ris...