Greg Lindsay

Expert on Cities, Mobility, Travel, Trade, and the Future of Work

Greg Lindsay

Expert on Cities, Mobility, Travel, Trade, and the Future of Work

Greg Lindsay is a futurist, urbanist, author and journalist. Lindsay is a senior fellow at NewCities, where he has explored the future of connected mobility and mixed-use development on behalf of Toyota and Brookfield Properties, respectively. He is also a non-resident senior fellow at the Atlantic Council’s Foresight, Strategy, and Risks Initiative, where he studies the intersection of cities, technology, climate change, and national security. And Greg also is an Urban Tech Fellow at Cornell Tech, leading “The Metaverse Metropolis.” In addition to his work with NewCities, Lindsay is also director of strategy for LA CoMotion — an annual mobility festival in the Arts District of Los Angeles — and a visiting scholar at New York University’s Rudin Center for Transportation Policy and Management. In these capacities, he has worked with Intel, Bloomberg Philanthropies, the Rockefeller Foundation, the Aspen Institute, and the Regional Plan Association to envision the future of autonomous vehicles. He is Chief Communications Officer at Climate Alpha, founded by Parag Khanna. Lindsay is also Urbanist-in-Residence at BMW MINI's URBAN-X — a startup accelerator aimed at solving the toughest urban challenges through entrepreneurship.

About Greg Lindsay

Greg Lindsay is a futurist, urbanist, author and journalist.

Lindsay is a senior fellow at NewCities, where he has explored the future of connected mobility and mixed-use development on behalf of Toyota and Brookfield Properties, respectively. He is also a non-resident senior fellow at the Atlantic Council’s Foresight, Strategy, and Risks Initiative, where he studies the intersection of cities, technology, climate change, and national security. And Greg also is an Urban Tech Fellow at Cornell Tech, leading “The Metaverse Metropolis.”

In addition to his work with NewCities, Lindsay is also director of strategy for LA CoMotion — an annual mobility festival in the Arts District of Los Angeles — and a visiting scholar at New York University’s Rudin Center for Transportation Policy and Management. In these capacities, he has worked with Intel, Bloomberg Philanthropies, the Rockefeller Foundation, the Aspen Institute, and the Regional Plan Association to envision the future of autonomous vehicles. He is Chief Communications Officer at Climate Alpha, founded by Parag Khanna.

Lindsay is also Urbanist-in-Residence at BMW MINI's URBAN-X — a startup accelerator aimed at solving the toughest urban challenges through entrepreneurship.


Topics

  • The Post-Pandemic City
  • ChatGPT
  • The Metaverse Metropolis
  • Millennial metrics, the New Suburbia, and the future of housing
  • Deepfakes, mechanical turks, and the dark future of AI
  • “Micromobility" and the future of transportation
  • Climate Change

Books

  • Aerotropolis: The Way We'll Live Next, 2011