Thinking about the future sometimes involves imagining hypotheses that seem straight out of a science fiction book or movie. However, technological advances, which have taken on a breakneck pace with the arrival of artificial intelligence, have allowed businesses, architects, experts and leaders to begin to visualize the future more clearly. On the streets of Madrid you can take a taxi; Virtual space will prevail 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 located hundreds of kilometers away or transforming itself into a megalopolis that absorbs the economic and human resources of the rest of the territories surrounding it. Madrid is experiencing its best moment. It is the region where the most people come and our responsibility is that this growth takes place in a balanced way so that it does not lose its popular character”, declared yesterday the regional president, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, who inaugurated the conference ‘The territory and the city of the future: for example Madrid’, organized by Foro Periodismo 2030 and the AXA Foundation. In the next 25 years, the population 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 the actors involved in society must work so that this increase “be prosperous” . For this, Caballero insisted, “we must discuss and propose a strategic plan focused on the future.” Report Related News Yes A robot inspector and a “spy” car: the capital of the future is tested at Ifema Amina Ould. Madrid will present this Thursday and Friday 45 mobility and waste management projects during a national congress, a meeting that brought together specialists from different fields (leisure, catering, architecture, urban planning, housing and immigration) from the College of Architects of Madrid and which was hosted by the journalists Fernando Jáuregui, president of Periodismo 2030, and the Cronista de la Villa Sara Medialdea, spoke of the challenges and opportunities and an x-ray of the main transformations that cities will experience in the years to come – we estimates that 70% of the population will reside there in 2050 – focusing on the Spanish capital region. Investments in hospitals and the metro network One of the region’s challenges is making room for the three million people who have yet to come. The regional government, aware of the need to remedy 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, the deployment of public and private hospitals or the development of the community transport network. The Madrid metropolis or megalopolis not only connects the different cities that make up the region, but also the most distant cities. areas like Toledo, Guadalajara or Ávila are one of the keys to the region’s prosperity. The Spanish capital will have to choose between becoming a megalopolis that absorbs the economic and human resources of neighboring territories, as Paris does, or avoiding it and becoming “a city of cities”, Caballero stressed: “We can make Madrid a dealer which distributes in Spain and understand that it is a city made up of many cities that already exist and that it is necessary to promote them Currently, determined the urban planner, the region fulfills the function of metropolis with the places with which it is well. connected, like Toledo; and a megalopolis with others like Talavera, 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 conviction: “This will only be done to those who are metropolitan. The rest will die. “A second airport Just like mobility within the national territory is an important point for. the construction of cities of the future, connections with the outside world are also important. “We have a big airport, but we only have one. If it closes, there will be seven million inhabitants and four others from other areas that depend on it, cut off from the world”, estimates Caballero, who considers that the construction of a second, like London or Paris, “could revitalize corridors, create services and wealth elsewhere. Flying in an electric vehicle 67% of Spaniards believe that within 30 years it will be common to travel around cities in a driverless car. However, it is already a reality for those residing on the West Coast of the United States. In San Francisco or Los Angeles, through an app you can order a taxi, select a destination, have a vehicle pick you up, and upon entering you will be greeted only by an empty car with an automatically turning steering wheel. and some sensors that detect everything that is happening. However, the future of this service on 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 drone company Umiles, made it clear yesterday that mobility will take a radical turn in the decades to come. Today, the company led 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 end of the city to the other. “Improving mobility in cities and connection with interurban areas will be a reality,” he determined during his speech. Furthermore, this does not mean that it is only dedicated to the transport of people, but also to medical systems, the use of state security forces or logistics. Housing is another of the main problems that arise. will have to address Madrid looking to the future. However, it is already making the various administrations talk and working because of its lack 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 micro-apartments of 40 square meters. The proposal from Sofía Iturbe, founder of Libeen Smart Housing and Young Leader of Civil Society prize, is committed in this direction. young people can acquire their own accommodation. “84% of millennials want to buy, but they can’t. “We offer a solution that allows part of the rent to be devoted to savings,” declared Iturbe Leisure and restaurants: a meeting point in the face of digital Faced with the future of work and digitalization, experts in catering and nightlife Pepe Caldas and. Tito Pajares, leisure and restaurants must opt for the model that makes them great today: positioning themselves as a meeting place. “The restaurant of the future must be a place where we have fun, a place where the mental health of citizens remains in good shape,” believes Caldas. “Madrid is avant-garde, popular, joyful, full of life. has a way of being that was not invented, that we have never tried to transform and that has amazed the world”, declared the president in her first words, with which Pajares, president of the National Federation of Nightlife, then agreed: “We are a sector of avant-garde, young, an opportunity for many artists I do not think that the relationships with robots that this survey foresees are still far away: we need. to socialize, to share, Madrid is able to do it with everyone who visits it.
