Kone
It's not too late to fight back against the climate emergency by creating livable and eco-friendly cities for the future. The answer lies in modernizing and repurposing our existing buildings, and designing urban areas that adapt to people's changing needs.
The year is 2040, and the urban environment is a tale of two cities. Both are mostly high-rise communities, growing fast and densely populated, but they represent two very different realities from a climate and sustainability perspective.
KONE, a global leader in the elevator and escalator industry, studies urban megatrends and uses anonymized data on how people move around the built environment. This is done in order to understand how to make cities livable for people, both for today and for future generations. Two extreme scenarios, depicting different paths for cities, have emerged from KONE's most recent research.