Net Positive Cities Lab
Reimagining Regenerative Urban Futures Toward 2100
Reimagining Regenerative Urban Futures Toward 2100
by 2100, cities will face rising seas, extreme heat, ecological disruption, migration pressures, infrastructure stress, technological change, and widening inequalities. y
The question is no longer simply hos cities can become sustainable. The deeper challenge is how cities can become regenerative living systems.
A Net Positive City contributes more to ecological, social, and intergenerational well-being than it extracts.
Restores ecosystems and biodiversity
Generates clean renewable energy
Builds circular economies
Strengthens climate resilience
Deepens civic participation
Uses AI to enhance human and planetary thriving
To help catalyze a global movement of Net Positive Cities by 2100 — cities that restore ecological systems, strengthen resilience, and generate regenerative, inclusive, and life-enhancing futures for people, communities, and the planet.
The Net Positive Cities Lab is a city-based innovation and futures platform that mobilizes governments, universities, communities, and strategic partners to co-create regenerative urban systems through experimentation, foresight, leadership development, and collaborative action.
Design and demonstrate solutions that restore ecosystems and strengthen resilience.
Mobilize partnerships among cities, universities, communities, youth, and innovators.
City governments
Community Leaders
Innovation Partners
Universities
Youth Networks
Development Organizations
Civil society organizations
Indigenous knowledge holders
Philanthropic and impact finance partners
2100 is not an abstraction. It is the lifetime horizon of children alive today.
It asks cities to think beyond political cycles, project timelines, and short-term planning horizons-and to act today on behalf of future generations and living systems.
The future of cities will require new alliances among governments, universities, communities, innovators, youth, and stewards of place.
Contact: netpositivecitieslab@asianschoolofgovernment.com