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Lisbon is the next Berlin…
Lisbon is the next Berlin and Athens the next Lisbon. It is a crazy world where cities become fashion items, all the rage one moment and spat out by the fashionistas the next. So Lisbon becomes the next Berlin and … Read More
The Urban Psyche Assessment
Psychoanalyzing a city brings together a range of tools from different branches of psychology, urbanism, anthropology and cultural development as well as mental health practice to bear on the challenges and reveal the opportunities facing a city. The psychological techniques … Read More
The Civic City & the Nomadic World
I am trying to recapture the word ‘civic’ from its worthy, municipal feel and to give it a sense urgency, interest and power. The civic city notion is a clarion call to refocus and rethink our city making and to … Read More
The Digitized City – The book
This new book describes the tectonic shift unfolding where digital devices with their disruptive potential are changing cities, society and social life, connectivity, the economy and cultural life. Its impacts and influence will be as powerful as the climactic changes … Read More
A deeper yearning
Competitions, awards and accolades are proliferating. They act as a way of encouraging the trajectories of urban change. I have been involved in several juries and looked at over 750 proposals from across the world and they all have different … Read More
The City We Need
Too often the cities we have disappoint and there is an urgency to make dramatic changes. Too often they are ugly, too often there are sharp divisions between the rich and the poor, too often corrupting influences hold sway, too … Read More
Blog list
- The ethical frame of the civic city
- The Creative Bureaucracy & South Australia
- Lisbon is the next Berlin...
- The Digitized City - The book
- The balancing act
- Between Blandness & beauty
- The PUBLIC Symposium:
- Recent insights
- Civic Urbanity & Cities for People
- Are cities good for you
- Co-Innovating at Speed: The Shaking Hans Project
- The personality of cities
- Starting the Conversation
- Psychology & the City: The Hidden Dimension
- Creative Bureaucracy Radical Common Sense
- The Urban Psyche Assessment
- A deeper yearning
- Networks are all the rage
- The connector
- Emerging themes April 2015
- Co-designing conferences
- The European City of Innovation
- Recalibrating a sustainability narrative
- The city & its ambiguity
- Urban Acupuncture & Taipei