Max Nathan The growth of shared, flexible urban workspaces for startups and SMEs is now a striking, and very visible feature of British cities. Over the past decade or so, startups and small firms in retail,…
Every fifth city in Europe and about 70% of cities in the former Soviet bloc countries are struggling today with a decrease in population and its effect on urban development (economic decline, built environment decay and…
UWE Bristol, through the ESRC-funded project Reuniting Planning and Health: Tackling the Implementation Gaps in Evidence, Governance and Knowledge, has been organising a series of expert seminars exploring the intersection between public health and urban planning…
Governing the Future City is an international ESRC-funded project looking at innovative approaches to urban governance and planning in Johannesburg, London and Shanghai. This blog, following on from an introductory article, an overview of research in the area…
Mark Tewdwr-Jones Newcastle City Futures (NCF), led by Newcastle University, was formed in 2014 and grew out of Newcastle’s commitment to civic engagement, and our interest in the future of places. The idea of the civic…
Dr David Williams Project overview The Public Accountability to Residents in Contractual Urban Redevelopment (PARCOUR) project is a three-year project exploring how previously used land is redeveloped. The project includes nine case studies across three countries:…
Romain Dittgen Governing the Future City is an international ESRC-funded project looking at innovative approaches to urban governance and planning in Johannesburg, London and Shanghai. This blog, following on from an introductory article by Jenny Robinson…
Zheng Wang Governing the Future City is an international ESRC-funded project looking at innovative approaches to urban governance and planning in Johannesburg, London and Shanghai. This blog, following on from an introductory article by Jenny Robinson, gives an…
Urban Transformations and VUB-Brussels Centre for Urban Studies have announced a new workshop, ‘Experimenting with Urban Living Laboratories (ULLs) Beyond Smart-City Regions‘, to be held in Brussels on 13 February. Bringing together a range of…
Jennifer Robinson A large proportion of urban development in different regions of the world is taking place in mega-urban projects, such as new cities, satellite cities, or large new suburbs within existing cities. These developments are…
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