Future of Cities project closes
The Future of Cities project has now concluded.
This blog is no longer being updated.
Project update
Place based Open Policy Making - graduate mobility
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.
Curating the future of cities
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.
The science of cities
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.
Leeds: more than just liveability
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Katherine Powell, Posted on:
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Living in cities, Project update, Regional meetings
Sir Alan Wilson and Corinne Swain, members of the Future of Cities lead expert group, recently travelled to Leeds, to discuss the project.
Time travel in the North West
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Athlyn Cathcart-Keays, Posted on:
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Living in cities, Project update, Regional meetings
...‘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...
Birmingham: a sticky city?
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Francesca Perry, Posted on:
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Living in cities, Project update, Regional meetings
...in drawing and keeping people in the city, especially for the large number of skilled graduates that emerge from Birmingham’s varied universities and colleges. We heard that Birmingham seems to...
A school of the future
...enthusiasm of the students and staff, coupled with highly committed governors. I wish them all the best for the future and look forward to following their progress." Images courtesy of...
The Future of Cities
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.