What’s Next: Circular Smart Cities

joachim jake layes
5 min readNov 18, 2020
Photo by Duy Nguyen on Unsplash

The COVID19 global pandemic revealed the vulnerabilities of global cities. Considered an essential foundation for more sustainable living — reducing commuting, traffic, energy consumption, and GHG emissions — compact urban living populations of large high-density cities have shown exponential growth of COVID19 infections. The city of Wuhan, China, was the first large city (population is over 11m) to come to a complete stop…

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joachim jake layes

European in Asia. Designer. MBA. Angel Investor. In search of patterns in design, innovation, sustainability for a thriving, regenerative, inclusive economy.