Hongqi Guo: Where We're Going We Don't Need Roads

WHERE WE’RE GOING, WE DON’T NEED ROADS

Inside China’s AI-powered cities

What happens when a city is planned not just for streets and subways - but for flying cars, AI, and real-time data?

Hongqi Guo, principal of Yitong - the largest design and architecture outfit you’ve never heard of - takes us inside China’s next generation of cities, where flying cars, vertiports, electrified mobility and a new generation of «vertical highrise» buildings are already shaping urban plans. And how AI, data and state coordination compress decades of planning into years.

Including an update on China's urban development - the effects of trade war and AI development - since he last spoke at the Proptech Summit 10 years ago. 

Is Europe ready to compete? As buildings, mobility and digital infrastructure converge, Guo explores what Europe can learn, what it should avoid, and whether democratic planning can keep pace with machine-speed urbanism.