How do you change the future? You change the story people tell themselves about the future they will live in. It’s a simple thing but it can have massive effects. If you can change the story that people tell themselves about the future, then they will make different decisions. They will take different actions. They will bring about a very different tomorrow. Cities and their futures are stories that we tell ourselves. We want to live in cities. We want to belong to communities. It’s all the narrative we are telling ourselves and each other about the future we want to inhabit.
