Brisbane will host the 2015 Asia Pacific Summit and Mayors'Forum from 5-8 July. Since the Summit was initiated by Brisbane in 1996 over 8,000 delegates have participated from more than 400 cities. The Summit alternates between Brisbane, which hosts every second summit, and selected cities in the Asia-Pacific region. The 2015 Summit will discuss critical issues in 4 thematic areas : Global Cities, Digital Cities, Future Cities, and Cities for People. Keynote speakers include Sebastian Coe (who organised the recent London Olympic Games), Randi Zuckerberg, Sy Lau, and Tyler Brule.

The Rolling Workshop approach which has been successfully applied by the Harnessing Cultural Policy Network will now be applied by the LCN's Inclusion Network with an Inclusion Rolling Workshop which commenced in Townsville on 4 May. The Townsville Workshop will be followed by workshops in Glasgow (early July), Bristol (15 October), and Melbourne (2 December).

The New York Department of Transport is building pedestrian plazas across New York in partnerhip with the Horti8cultural Society of New York. The NPP began in 2013 with DOT identifying places where pedestrian plazas could be built Once DOT has created a plaza it is handed over to the community based Horticultural Society to maintain it. There are now more than 71 Neighbourhood Plazas in New York from Times Square to Ozone Park.

The Climate Policy Info Hub has been launched as an online knowledge platform that provides information on climate policy options at international and EU levels easily accessible. The Info Hub is the outcome of the EU funded POLIMP project and was elaborated by a group of independent climate policy researchers and by a Dutch organisation Joint Implementation Network. The concept, design, and content of the Hub were provided by the Ecological Institute in Berlin. Articles will be provided in coming months to give a knowledge platform for consideration of EU and UN level policy options.

The Third Annual Future of Places Conference will be held in Stockholm on June 29-July1 co-hosted by the Project for Public Spaces, UN Habitat, and the Axson Johnson Foundation. Outcomes from the three annual conferences will feed into the United Nations global summit, Habitat III to be held in 2016.

New York based Project for Public spaces has promoted place-making around the world, at times with partners such as UN Habitat.. Place-making principles have been applied in many cities around the world such as Adelaide in Australia, as well as in New York.