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This blog is no longer being updated.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
Sir Mark Walport recently travelled to Manchester, Liverpool and Lancaster, accompanied by lead expert Rachel Cooper and the Future of Cities team, to discuss the challenges and opportunities faced by the cities in the coming decades.
Birmingham: a sticky city?
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Francesca Perry, Posted on:
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Living in cities, Project update, Regional meetings
At the end of February we headed to Birmingham, the place that's often cited as 'the UK's second city’.
A school of the future
Sir Mark Walport and the Future of Cities team recently visited Liverpool to discuss the project. As part of this, we took a tour of the Liverpool Life Sciences UTC and talked to students and teachers
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.