Thinking about the future sometimes involves imagining assumptions that seem straight out of a science fiction book or movie. However, technological advances, which have taken on a frenetic pace with the arrival of artificial intelligence, have allowed companies, architects, experts and leaders to begin to visualize the future more clearly. Through the streets of Madrid you can fly by taxi; Virtual space will win over real space since, according to 64% of Spaniards; Madrid residents will live in micro-apartments of forty square meters; and the region will have to debate between transforming itself into a metropolis capable of connecting with other cities hundreds of kilometers away or transforming itself into a megalopolis that absorbs the economic and human resources of the rest of the territories that surround it. «The Community of Madrid is experiencing its best moment . It is the region to which the most people come and our responsibility is that this growth occurs in balance so that it does not lose its popular character,” said yesterday the regional president, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, who inaugurated the conference ‘The territory and the city of future: for example, Madrid’, organized by Foro Periodismo 2030 and the AXA Foundation. In the next 25 years, the population number that will reside in Madrid will reach 10 million, according to Fernando Caballero, architect, urban planner and author of the book ‘Madrid DF’, so all actors involved in society must work to ensure that this increase “be prosperous.” To do this, Caballero insisted, “we have to talk and propose a strategic plan that looks toward the future.” Related News report Yes An inspector robot and a ‘spy’ car: the capital of the future is being tested at Ifema Amina Ould Madrid will present this Thursday and Friday 45 mobility and waste management projects at a national congressThe meeting, which brought together specialists from different areas (leisure, restoration, architecture, urban planning, housing and immigration) at the College of Architects of Madrid and which was moderated by journalists Fernando Jáuregui, president of Periodismo 2030, and the Cronista de la Villa Sara Medialdea, raised the challenges and opportunities and an x-ray of the main transformations that cities will experience in the coming years – it is estimated that 70% of the population will reside there in 2050–, focusing on the Spanish capital region.Investment in hospitals and the Metro networkOne of the challenges facing the region is to make room for the three million people who are yet to come. The regional government, which is aware that it must address this situation, is already working on different reforms over 15 or 20 years, thinking about what Madrid will be like. Investments in infrastructure such as the Canal de Isabel II, a deployment of both public and private hospitals or the development of the Community’s transport network. Metropolis or megalopolis Madrid’s connections not only between the different towns that make up the region, but with cities More remote areas such as Toledo, Guadalajara or Ávila are one of the keys to the prosperity of the region. The Spanish capital will have to choose between becoming a megalopolis that absorbs the economic and human resources of nearby territories, as Paris does, or avoiding it and becoming “a city of cities,” Caballero noted: “We can turn Madrid into a croupier that distributes to Spain and understand that it is a city made up of many cities that already exist and that they must be promoted. Currently, the urban planner determined, the region performs the function of a metropolis with those places with which it is well connected, such as Toledo; and a megalopolis with others like Talavera. 64% of Spaniards, according to the survey (with 3,000 samples, also presented yesterday and carried out by Metroscopia), consider that in the coming years there will be a movement from large cities to smaller ones. Caballero responds to this belief: «It will only be done to those that are metropolitanized. The rest will die. “A second airportJust as mobility within the national territory is an important point for the construction of the cities of the future, so are connections outside. «We have a great airport, but we only have one. If it closes, you have seven million inhabitants and another four from other areas that depend on it, cut off,” says Caballero, who considers that the construction of a second, like London or Paris has, “could vitalize corridors, create services and wealth elsewhere. Flying in electric vehicles 67% of Spaniards believe that within 30 years it will be common to travel around cities in driverless cars. However, this is already a reality for those who reside on the west coast of the United States. In San Francisco or Los Angeles, through an application, you can order a taxi, select a destination, have a vehicle come to pick you up and, upon entering, you will only be greeted by an empty car with a steering wheel that turns automatically and some sensors that detect everything that is around. However, the future of this service in the streets of Madrid goes further and is already being worked on by around fifteen technology companies from around the world. Carlos Poveda, CEO of the drone firm Umiles, made it clear yesterday that mobility will take a radical turn in the coming decades. Today, the company run by Poveda is already developing a Spanish prototype of an electric air taxi, a type of helicopter that will be responsible for transporting passengers from one side of the city to the other. “It will be a reality to improve mobility in cities and the connection with interurban areas,” he determined during his speech. Furthermore, this does not mean that it is only dedicated to the transportation of people, but also for medical systems, for the use of the State Security Forces or for logistics. 40 square meter apartments Housing is another of the main issues that arise. they will have to address in Madrid looking to the future. However, it is already making people talk and making the different administrations work due to the lack of it and the high prices offered by the market. Citizens – 64% of those surveyed – already associate living in the capital region with having to live in 40 square meter micro-flats. The proposal of Sofía Iturbe, founder of Libeen Smart Housing and Young Leader of Civil Society award, is committed to that young people can acquire their own home. «84% of millennials want to buy, but they can’t. “We propose a solution that allows part of the rent to be dedicated to savings,” said Iturbe. Leisure and restaurants: a meeting point in the face of digital Facing the future of work and digitalization, the experts in restoration and nightlife Pepe Caldas and Tito Pajares, the Leisure and restaurants must opt for the model that makes them great today: positioning themselves as a meeting place. «The restaurant of the future has to be a place where people enjoy themselves, a place where the mental health of citizens stays in shape», considers Caldas. «Madrid is avant-garde, it is popular, happy, full of life, it has a a way of being that has not been invented, that we have not tried to transform at any time and that has amazed the world,” said the president in her first words, with which Pajares, president of the National Nightlife Federation, later agreed: ” We are a sector of avant-garde, young, an opportunity for many artists. I don’t think the relationships with robots that this survey foresees have a long way to go: we need to socialize, share, Madrid is capable of doing so with everyone who visits it.
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