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How to Create a Welcoming Place | Placemaking Round-Up

Posted November 19, 2023 - 11:26 by Susan Kelly

This round-up from the Project for Public Spaces connects people who share a passion for public spaces to ideas and issues, news, quotes, places, and events from the placemaking movement.

European Universities and Knowledge Alliances in their territorial innovation ecosystems

Posted November 17, 2023 - 17:19 by Mike Osborne

To get a sense of the European Commission’s perspective on the contribution of HEI’s to developing regional innovations systems, the attached report on ‘European Universities and Knowledge Alliances in their territorial innovation ecosystems’, may be enlightening. At the University of Glasgow, we are part of one of the Alliances, CIVIS, and I am grateful to colleagues in the that alliance for making me aware of this report, and supplying the summary below:

Making better places: The Challenge of Social Cohesion | JOHN TIBBITT from Policies for Places

Posted November 16, 2023 - 17:34 by John Tibbitt

In the face of increasing social inequality, migration, social exclusion and declining social mobility the concept of social cohesion now features prominently in discourse about communities both in academic literature and in social policy debates, yet despite its widespread use by academics, policy-makers and public officials, it is a concept whose succinct definition remains elusive.

NEP-SOC 2023-11-13, seven papers

Posted November 14, 2023 - 13:52 by Fabio Sabatini

In this issue we feature 7 current papers on the theme of social capital, chosen by Fabio Sabatini (Università degli Studi di Roma “La Sapienza”):

Swansea University and PASCAL International Observatory collaborate to host Leverhulme Lecture on Islamic pedagogical capabilities for learning cities

Posted November 6, 2023 - 11:18 by Annie Tubadji

On Thursday, 19th October 2023, Swansea University hosted a Leverhulme Lecture titled “Pedagogical Capabilities in Islam to Create, Maintain and Develop Justice-oriented Learning Cities”. The lecture was presented by Nematollah Azizi, a Leverhulme Professor at the University of Glasgow and a faculty member at the University of Kurdistan in Iran. This visit was organized by Swansea University, along the International PASCAL Observatory collaboration, where Swansea Learning City and Swansea University are active members and were happy to host Professor Azizi as their guest from their partner University of Glasgow.  The lecture by Professor Azizi aimed to explore the role of Islamic pedagogical capabilities in creating and maintaining justice-oriented learning cities.

Community school organises first learning city conference and festival in Otelu Rosu, Romania

Posted November 3, 2023 - 14:05 by Rob Mark

Banatean High School, Otelu Rosu, in Western Romania, Timisoara region, was the focus of a week of activities in October 2023 around the theme of learning cities and regions. The event is part of a wider ‘Schools for Learning Cities’ project involving other cities in Nocera, Umbria (Italy), Alcora (Spain), Platon (Greece) and Modiin (Israel).  The programme included a 2-day conference entitled ‘Log into the Future’ with the key themes being sustainability, digitalisation, and social inclusion.

November Edition of Wyndham News

Posted November 2, 2023 - 14:54 by Susan Kelly

We are pleased to share with you the November Edition of Wyndham News, featured below in full and attached for download.

Cities, Regions, and American National Security | The Urban Lens Newsletter

Posted October 31, 2023 - 16:01 by Bob Gleeson

Yesterday was the 70th anniversary of an obscure bureaucratic document with the formal title of “NSC 162/2 Statement of Policy by the National Security Council.” The document was finalized on October 30, 1953.

NEP-SOC 2023-08-28, eight papers

Posted October 30, 2023 - 15:22 by Fabio Sabatini

In this issue we feature 8 current papers on the theme of social capital, chosen by Fabio Sabatini (Università degli Studi di Roma “La Sapienza”):

50 years and counting: the future of community councils in Scotland | JOHN TIBBITT from Policies for Places

Posted October 29, 2023 - 15:49 by John Tibbitt

Community Councils in Scotland were created by the Local Government (Scotland) Act of 1973 as the most local statutory tier of local government in Scotland, and intended as a bridge between local communities and local authorities. The legislation which founded community councils remains unaltered today despite major changes in the structure of local government in the intervening years, which has seen the removal of regional and district councils and the creation of 32 unitary local authorities in their place.

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