The demands of modern logistics, the urgent need for decarbonization, and the demand for equitable access are challenging the 20th-century infrastructure. Cities can no longer afford to wait five years for a plan to be approved. They need to test, learn, and adapt. For centuries, a city map was a static thing—ink on parchment, lines on a screen, a fixed set of rules. But to rise up to the challenge, the maps of Europe need to come to life. They should no longer be just about

The Ghost in the Traffic Jam For decades, we’ve lived with a quiet paradox. We design our lives around the "freedom" of the car, only to spend those lives sitting in traffic, staring at the bumper in front of us. When the energy transition began, our first instinct was to "optimise" this frustration. We thought that if we simply swapped the gas tank for a battery, the problem would be solved. But as 2025 has shown us, a traffic jam of five thousand electric vehicles is still