#4. Urban Planning Through the Eyes of Animals

In the coming decades, humans will face immense challenges in not only searching for meanings within the increasingly automated urban realm, looking inward within themselves what their purpose is but also to understand what consciousness is. Urban planning has always align its priorities to the rapidly evolving human and societal needs. Really, when asking the big questions about consciousness and life purposes, humans will increasingly investigate the minds of different species in the search for reasons and well-beings, and this is anticipated to influence urban planning to a great degree.

On this search of reasons and well-beings, it is predicted humanity will slowly discover how the enigmatic minds of species other than us function. From this, humanity will soon to solve languages, thoughts and emotions of various animals. There is a high degree that, maybe, humans will discover plants have their own way of communicating as well. Increasingly, animal ethics and plant ethics will be emphasised across the globe.

It is obviously interesting to think about this issue right now rather than 20 years down the road. Firstly, how animals react to moving and immobile objects. Secondly, how animals move around in the human-built environment. Thirdly, what new behaviours were picked up by urban animals? Fourth, what sort of human values were inculcated by their human counterparts? Fifth, how well-beings of animals complement human well-beings? Sixth, how urban planning responds to the needs of animals?

If sustainable development is human-centred in nature, then the development model after this must have to be more comprehensive and holistic, encompassing the evolving needs of animals and plants.

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