Learning Cities 2030

Future of Cities has published two new working papers

Posted October 1, 2014 - 10:26 by Mike Osborne

The UK government Office for Science project, Future of Cities has published two new working papers: Nick Dunn’s ‘A Visual History of the Future’and Ron Martin’s ‘The evolving economic performance of UK cities.

Education, Learning Cities and the Urban Big Data Centre

Posted September 26, 2014 - 18:22 by Catherine Lido

Colleagues in the Learning City Networks may be interested in some of the specific work currently being undertaken by the Urban Big Data Centre (UBDC) at the University of Glasgow in the field of Education.

Cities learning together - Public administration as a domain for smart solutions - Report of 3rd LC2020 workshop 12/13 June 2014

Posted September 19, 2014 - 12:02 by Jari Stenvall

The objective of the event, the third in the PASCAL Learning Cities 2020 workshop series, was to bring about an awareness of the role and needs of local communities in relation to learning, and to seek smart solutions in which cities and other public organizations can play a greater role in response to those needs. The workshop was attended by some 80 people from a number of different counties. There were 18 presentations in the workshop including the keynote presentations. The attached document summarises some of the main issues from the workshop.

Invitation to CLC Lecture Series - Of Standards and Cities

Posted September 14, 2014 - 11:54 by Mike Osborne
Sep 16 2014 11:54
Europe/London
MND Auditorium
9 Maxwell Road

How does one city compare to another? What are the key criteria for assessing a city’s service delivery and quality of life? Hear from Mr Rob Steele, ISO Secretary-General, as he shares on the new ISO standard for city indicators. How can cities make smarter infrastructural choices to fulfil economic objectives? Mr Terry Hill will share his experiences as former Chairman of Arup Group, having led several key projects worldwide.

Cities that score well barely qualify as cities - an analysis of rankings argues

Posted September 7, 2014 - 12:56 by Mayo Nissen

Increasingly popular lists that judge cities on "liveability" and "quality of life" are dangerous for the future development of our metropoles, says Sam Jacob, professor of architecture at University of Illinois at Chicago, in the article Cities that score well barely qualify as cities from Dezeen magazine.

Municipal-University Engagement LC2020 Workshop hosted by UNISA, PASCAL and the City of Tshwane, 21 August 2014

Posted August 23, 2014 - 10:00 by Sunette Pienaar

This workshop on the campus of UNISA, attended by nearly 100 people from government and UNISA, carried the Learning City 2020 series of PASCAL events in 2014 forward.  Becoming a Learning City – not if, but how - was the theme of the speech by Prof. Mandla Makhanya, Vice-Chancellor of UNISA (Africa’s largest university), who put the Learning City at the centre of UNISA’s commitment to community engagement.

Connecting Research with Cities

Posted August 9, 2014 - 09:31 by Mike Osborne

In early 2014, the Future Cities Catapult, the UK’s government-backed urban innovation centre commissioned the Urban Systems Laboratory at Imperial College London to outline what is happening on urban systems and technology development inside UK universities. The attached document is the report of that commission.

PASCAL Briefing Paper 4 - Learning Cities: Strategies for promoting inclusion

Posted August 8, 2014 - 17:05 by John Tibbitt

This paper provides an overview of some of the insights and lessons derived from exchanges between cities in many parts of the world which participated in the PASCAL International Exchanges programme (PIE) over the past 4 years, as cities faced the challenge of finding new ways in which their learning city strategies can contribute to inclusion objectives.

The Internet of Everything for Cities

Posted August 8, 2014 - 09:25 by Mike Osborne

Subscribers may be interested in the point of view published by CISCO concerned with connectedness and liveability in cities and communities. Once it was the 'Internet of Things': now it is the 'Internet of Everything' in our Smart Cities. This is of course linked to the Big Data revolution and the ability of modern computing methods to analyse large and diverse digitalised information, and the use of sensors in objects of many sorts. I'd welcome your thoughts on this topic.

Mexico City to host the second International Conference on Learning Cities in 2015

Posted August 5, 2014 - 14:46 by Stephen Roche

Mexico City has been selected by UNESCO to host the second International Conference on Learning Cities. The decision was announced on July 14, at an event organized by the Mexico City authorities and attended by representatives of universities, national and international agencies, governmental and non-governmental organisations and the private sector.

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