On 18 September a group of international experts representing local and national governments, academia and the private sector met in London to discuss how the world is thinking about the future of cities.
As part of our evidence-gathering, the lead expert group and project team has engaged with a number of UK cities to hear directly from them about their views on the future.
Sir Alan Wilson and Corinne Swain, members of the Future of Cities lead expert group, recently travelled to Leeds, to discuss the project.
...the cities in the coming decades. We met with representatives from local businesses, government and universities and heard how new data techniques are allowing researchers to 'time travel' to forecast...
...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...
In this blog post, a member of the Project Team describes a visit that Sir Mark Walport recently made to the North East. 'Geordies will live here!' was the response...
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.
