Spending six days in the Netherlands to attend the Academy of Urbanism Congress in the Dutch city of Utrecht in June brought home the huge benefits from sustained public investment in creating connected cities and healthy neighbourhoods. Revisiting Amersfoort, Utrecht and Rotterdam before ending up in Amsterdam showed how much could be achieved over a…

POSTCARD FROM UTRECHT: Healthier living and the AoU Congress

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Postcard from the West Coast of the US: Providing housing (5/5)

Postcard from the West Coast of the US: Connecting places (4/5)

Postcard from the West Coast of the US: Growing intelligent/smarter cities (3/5)

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Postcard from the West Coast of the US: Growing good cities (1/5)

Postcard from Sarajevo
Moving to a market economy and sharing land value uplift Returning to Sarajevo for a research conference almost fifty years after I had worked there as a management consultant for McKinsey and Company raised some fundamental questions over how the countries of Central and Eastern Europe should use their recently won ‘freedoms’ to build […]
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