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    Laura Fingal-Surma - Could urban gondolas be as transformative as railroads & elevators?
    Cities of Tomorrow
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    Environments of Tomorrow
    jonnyabates
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    laurafingalsurma
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    Thu, Jun 12, 2025
    16:30 - 17:00 GMT-7
    The Loft
    120 North St, Healdsburg, CA 95448, USA
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    By popular demand! This session explores how aerial gondolas, long used in ski towns and scenic cities, could usher in an era of abundant transit. 

    We’ll focus on Swyft Cities, which is bringing a new gondola-like automated transit solution to market that is modular, radically affordable, and surprisingly scalable. Trips are nonstop and 3x faster than Uber.

    Will Swyft Cities reshape how we build cities? Come curious, bring your own gondola story, and help imagine where this technology could take us next.

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    Laura Fingal-Surma is building Urbanist Ventures to cultivate a vibrant and compounding ecosystem of ambitious urbanist startups and founders. She’s on a mission to scale urbanism and built the first national YIMBY org. Urbanist Ventures extends her passion for advancing ideas previously considered “crazy” or impossible.

    Follow on Twitter @urbanistvc and sign up for updates at urbanist.vc.

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