Tag Archives: harmonious

Emerging themes April 2015

A shift is happening and it could be significant. Three issues jump into the foreground and they are linked to three words: ‘human’, ‘public’ and ‘start-up’. There is the Human Cities project led by St. Etienne, involving 12 places across … Read More

Recent insights

History and creativity can be great partners, but only if strong principles lead the way. This is my conclusion reflecting on recent involvement in places as varied as Siem Reap and seeing how tourism and world heritage sites could be … Read More

The city & its ambiguity

I feel ambiguous about cities. And that after all these years of being inside them as part of their intrinsic fibre or looking at them from the outside or advising people who run cities. I wish I felt more at … Read More