In this episode of ON CITIES, AnnaLisa Meyboom will discuss the future of transportation and its impact on urban form. The conversation will focus on multiple scenarios for the integration of autonomous vehicles, the future of electrical vehicle station planning and the ways that well-designed infrastructure can bring social value that far exceeds its initial construction expenditure.   Meyboom will discuss how well-designed transportation is a key factor to greater levels of equity in our cities and a higher quality of life for all citizens by offering specific strategies and tools utilized in successful infrastructural projects throughout the globe. The conversation will also address some of the more controversial outcomes associated with contemporary infrastructure including gentrification, globalization and consumer tourism.   AnnaLisa Meyboom received a civil engineering degree from the University of Waterloo and holds a Master of Architecture from the University of British Columbia, where she is now an Associate Professor at the School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture. She is the Director of the Transportation Infrastructure & Public Space Lab (TIPSlab), an interdisciplinary research group that examines the design of public transportation infrastructure and its critical and catalytic relationship to public space. Her research interests include the state of the art in robotic fabrication of wood as well as the integrated design of future transportation networks.   Meyboom has published numerous articles and her most recent books include Driverless Urban Futures: A Speculative Atlas for Autonomous Vehicles (Routledge, 2019); and Design Capital: The Hidden Value of Design in Infrastructure, co-authored with Sherry Mc Kay (Routledge, 2023). In addition to her research and teaching, AnnaLisa is the principal of AIR studio, a multidisciplinary architecture and engineering design firm based in Vancouver, Cananda.

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