The Future of Cities Learning Hub is the living, practical extension of my book The Future of Cities — a place where ideas become tools, and insight becomes action.
Here, research meets design thinking, data meets empathy, and complex urban challenges become clearer, more navigable paths forward.
You’ll find frameworks, toolkits, and upcoming masterclasses designed to help city leaders, policymakers, researchers, and innovators bring the principles of The Future of Cities to life — across sustainability, health, inclusion, governance, innovation, and more.
It’s where city intelligence becomes human — and humans become city-shapers.👱🏻♀️ syn.city.ai — My Digital Twin for Urban Curiosity
A playful experiment with a systems mind.
Imagine a digital version of my urban brain — curious, analytical, and a little rebellious. That’s syn.city.ai. She is here to explore ideas with you, stretch your assumptions, and reveal patterns you may not have seen.
Free to use, always evolving, and occasionally surprising.
🛜 Follow me here → syn.city.ai
🤖 Urban Futures Lab GPT — Your Research Co-Pilot
This customised GPT distils years of research into an accessible guide for mayors, policymakers, researchers, and urban innovators.
Think of this as an always-on co-pilot for evidence-based citymaking: a smart, fast, research-trained assistant who helps you decode indicators, compare case studies, test strategies, or explore new futures.
It’s designed to be sharp, generous, and accessible — a free resource for anyone building better cities.
It will constantly evolve as new research, tools, and ideas expand our understanding of cities — so every time you return, it grows with you.
🏙️ Access it here → Urban Futures Lab GTP
⚙️The Future of Cities Toolkit
From data to intelligence. From systems to empathy.
A practical, human-centred framework that helps city leaders, policymakers, and innovators design change that lasts.
🧭 A Living System for Cities
The Future of Cities Toolkit is a digital companion to Dr. Fatime Barbara Hegyi’s book The Future of Cities.
It transforms research into a hands-on framework for cities to think, measure, and act differently.
Each module connects global challenges — sustainability, health, education, inclusion, security, and innovation — with AI-powered prompts, reflection tools, and data frameworks that help leaders translate insight into action.
The Future of Cities Toolkit was created for the people shaping tomorrow’s cities — the mayors, researchers, planners, and innovators who see urban life as a living system, not a spreadsheet. Its purpose is simple yet profound: to help you think more systemically, act more empathetically, and lead more intelligently — combining human insight with AI-driven clarity.
🧩 From Knowledge to Application
Every module includes:
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A framing insight that reframes a challenge.
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AI prompt cards to generate new thinking.
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Reflection and leadership exercises.
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Optional team or policy-lab activities.
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A repository of source documents
🧠 Built for People Who Shape Cities
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Mayors, policymakers, and strategists who want to make evidence human.
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Urban researchers and data innovators bridging analysis and empathy.
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Practitioners designing systems for well-being, not just efficiency.
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Educators and learners who want to understand how cities think.
✨ Begin Designing the Future of Cities
The future of cities isn’t written in policies — it’s written in how we think, collaborate, and learn.
This toolkit invites you to see data as empathy, governance as learning, and cities as living systems.
🎓 The Future of Cities Masterclass
A guided journey from knowledge to practice — where we explore how data, design, and empathy can reshape urban decision-making.
This upcoming online masterclass builds on the ideas of The Future of Cities and the accompanying Toolkit, offering an immersive learning experience for policymakers, innovators, and practitioners.
You’ll learn to read your city as a living system — to see patterns, measure what matters, and design governance that learns.
📅 Coming soon
📊 The Future of Cities Assessment Tool
Turning complexity into clarity — a new way to see how your city learns, adapts, and progresses.
The Assessment Tool translates the framework of The Future of Cities into an interactive diagnostic for urban intelligence.
It helps cities evaluate their performance across six dimensions — sustainability, health, education, inclusion, security, and innovation — while revealing their city intelligence profile:
🌱 Emergent City — building the foundations of collaboration and data-driven insight.
💡 Innovator City — experimenting with new models of participation and technology.
🤝 Integrator City — aligning systems for coherence and shared intelligence.
🌍 Regenerative City — leading through resilience, empathy, and long-term stewardship.
📈 Coming soon — for cities ready to measure what truly matters and see how intelligence evolves.
📖 Read the book that inspired it all!
The Future of Cities is where this journey begins — a book that redefines how we think about urban life, data, and collective intelligence.
It explores how cities can move beyond efficiency to empathy, beyond management to meaning.