Future. Hi welcome to sophie visionaries and. My guest today is a true explorer someone who loves to paint the present in order to figure out the future im here with architect urbanist writer a thinker rand paul has in his office to talk about the future of the city and the future landscape. Graham its so good to have you here on our program ive been wanting to ask you all kinds of questions Big Questions i was essential ones ill try yes but like i want to start with your exhibit at the guggenheim thats opening. So its called countryside the future. And its really its funny you say that because most of the people ive spoken to big thinkers feature ologist most of them agree that the future is within big cities that want to win become trees just big city so when you name it like that do you is it just a concept or do you really believe the future is there and its of course provocation but its a very calculating provocation because in 2007 the un said that half of mankind for sleeping in
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