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The balancing act
Three complex dilemmas have emerged with greater force. They are the balance of power between the city and state; the evolving balance between the virtual and the real and the balance between focusing on risk aversion or on promoting creativity. … Read More
Networks are all the rage
Yet can they fulfil their promise. We know we need to connect to keep in touch and know what is going on, to create opportunity or to learn from the best. The manifesto of 20 international cultural networks launched by … Read More
Urbanity & the Nomadic World
I want to recapture ‘being civic’ as something urgent, interesting and compelling, and indeed to help start a movement where it becomes the new common sense. To kick things off I am writing a larger new book scheduled to be … Read More
Between Blandness & beauty
The cultural dimension is the invisible hand of city-making, the core through which ultimately all of our decision-making flows. If a city’s culture is open-minded, potential grows. If it’s closed-minded, it shrinks or nothing happens. But culture is mostly not … Read More
The connector
Successful places have many connectors, who might be organizations or individuals. These connectors and facilitators stand above the nitty gritty of the day to day, important as this is, and look at ‘what really matters’ and where opportunities lie. By … Read More
The digitized city
How will we experience, navigate and understand the digitized, sensorized city whose deeper impacts are yet to unfold as the power of big data emerges with greater force. Disruptive user-driven business models supplying a constant cascade of information have changed … 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