{"id":17341,"date":"2016-10-12T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-10-12T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/architizer.wpengine.com\/rashiq-fataar-our-future-cities\/"},"modified":"2022-05-31T08:12:05","modified_gmt":"2022-05-31T12:12:05","slug":"rashiq-fataar-our-future-cities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/architizer.com\/blog\/inspiration\/stories\/rashiq-fataar-our-future-cities\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cAll of Us Create an Urbanism\u201d: How Our Future Cities Builds Empathy in City-Making"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n

This feature has been created in collaboration with urbanNext<\/a>, a multi-platform aimed at developing, disseminating and distributing content centered on architecture through a focus on the contemporary human milieu and its challenges. Architizer features a weekly discussion from urbanNext\u2019s journals to support its investigation of urban conditions and innovations facing the architectural profession today.<\/h4>\n

\u201cI think the question for architecture is how it sees itself and its many professionals as spatial agents rather than just purely being architects,\u201d says urban consultant and organizer Rashiq Fataar to a crowd at the 2015 Smart City Expo in Barcelona. \u201cContemporary architecture is much more complex. You have to be an anthropologist and a psychologist \u2026 You have to be very humble and at times be very bold because of your ability to \u2026 communicate a vision.\u201d<\/p>\n

Fataar, as the founder of Our Future Cities, a community-driven organization that aims to cultivate dialogue about urban developments around the world, sees that the future of city-making lies within a cross-disciplinary approach of professionals and citizens. <\/p>\n