A problem with many cities is that they were designed (or perhaps not even that) without the anticipation of the huge growth in population we have seen all over the world. But one man, in the TED Talk below, thinks the design of a city for a pre-automotive era could, in fact, hold the key to packing more people in.

In this TED Talk, Kent Larson explains how this would work, making everything you need within walking distance. He doesn’t stop there, though, and goes on to feature folding cars, quick-change apartments and other innovations that could make the city of the future work a lot like a small village of the past.