Designing Better Cities

Driverless cars and increased car sharing will translate to a decreased need for on-street parking, creating opportunities to reclaim valuable public space for pedestrians. Public Square is a plug-and-play system of interlocking modules that can incrementally reclaim this space with applications ranging from seating to retail stands, play equipment, gardens, and green space. Rethinking our city blocks through robots and moveable streetscape furniture and mobile platform typologies Urban landscapes and social behaviors have drastically changed in the last several years with the emergence of various technologies and will continue to evolve in the near future; 68 percent of the world population is projected to live in urban areas by 2050.