Future of Cities project closes

The Future of Cities project has now concluded.
This blog is no longer being updated.
The Future of Cities project has now concluded.
This blog is no longer being updated.
Cities can be excellent laboratories for innovating and developing new ideas. When Foresight asked cities about the challenges they were facing, retaining a high skilled labour pool emerged as an important issue.
In February, the Foresight Future of Cities project produced The Future City exhibition in an attempt to share some of its emerging thinking with a wider public and professional audience.
Cities matter. They will be the site of some of the great opportunities of the future, they will be home to the majority of us and they will be the main drivers of economic growth in the years to come.
Sir Alan Wilson and Corinne Swain, members of the Future of Cities lead expert group, recently travelled to Leeds, to discuss the project.
...‘super-region’ in the North West, similar to the South East region. While this could lead to people moving from cities like Lancaster/Preston to Manchester/Liverpool, this migration would sustain the strength...
At the end of February we headed to Birmingham, the place that's often cited as 'the UK's second city’. Sir Mark Walport brought together a range of key stakeholders, including...
...and talked to students and teachers about this innovative new model for secondary education. Students welcome Sir Mark to Liverpool Life Sciences UTC A University Technical College or 'UTC' is...
In the first Future of Cities blog post the Government Chief Scientific Adviser, Sir Mark Walport, explains what the project is about and what experts in Cambridge have to say about it.