Biotechnology and Future Cities

Zaheer Allam works as an Urban Strategist for the Port Louis Development Initiative (PLDI), Mauritius and the Global Creative Leadership Initiative. He is the African Representative of the International Society of Biourbanism (ISB) and a member of the Advisory Circle of the International Federation of Landscape Architects (IFLA). He was elevated, by the President of Mauritius, to the rank of Officer of the Order of the Star and Key of the Indian Ocean (OSK); the highest distinct order of Merit in Mauritius.

• Chapter 1 - Biotechnology to render future cities as living and intelligent organisms.- Chapter 2 - The Triple B: Big data, biotechnology and biomimicry.- Chapter 3 - Revisiting energy policy and planning in future living cities.- Chapter 4 - On gene editing and the conflicts between biodiversity and urban liveability.- Chapter 5 - Biometrics, privacy, safety and resilience in future cities.