The West Midlands is no stranger to ‘futures’ work. In 2006, Forum for the Future working with Sustainability West Midlands, wrote the 'West Midlands Futures: Drivers of change affecting the West Midlands' report.
Writing some 30 years ago, in her classic study on 'Cities and the wealth of nations', the celebrated North American urbanist Jane Jacobs argued that nations are not the basic economic units, rather cities are.
At the end of February we headed to Birmingham, the place that's often cited as 'the UK's second city’.
