Learning Cities 2030

Connecting Research with Cities

Posted June 18, 2014 - 16:14 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 the range of research currently underway in UK universities that connected with cities.

Sustainia 100 reports

Posted June 17, 2014 - 12:13 by Peter Kearns

A useful source of innovations that often involve entrepreneurial action may be found in the annual Sustainia 100 reports. These reports give 100 selected innovations across 10 sectors. The sectors are cities, energy, food, IT, education, health, resources etc. There are 10 selected innovations in each sector. Browsing these you may find good examples of entrepreneurial action you can follow up on.

Cultural Planning Forums Across Victoria: second and third forums – June/July 2014

Posted June 12, 2014 - 21:53 by Kim Dunphy

The Cultural Planning Forums in Victoria may be of interest to PASCAL subscribers and especially the network within the Learning Cities Network (LCN) concerned with Harnessing Cultural Policies in Building Sustainable Learning Cities.

The forums are presented by the Cultural Development Network (CDN) in collaboration with the Arts and Cultural Committee, Municipal Association of Victoria, and the Melbourne City Council, Corangamite Shire Council, Gannawarra Shire Council, Mitchell Shire Council and Latrobe City Council.

Taipei Learning City

Posted June 12, 2014 - 16:27 by Pi-yun Yang

I am a coordinator of Taipei Learning City and I have written a number of articles about the Learning City during the past three years. The attachment in this email is a list of articles that can be found at the Taipei Learning City website.

New Projects in Glasgow and Ostersund

Posted June 11, 2014 - 11:55 by Henrik Zipsane

Attached you will find details of initiatives that have received funding in Glasgow and Ostersund and which I hope will be of interest to you, and especially those within PASCAL's Learning Cities Networks theme of Harnessing Cultural Policies in Building Sustainable Learning Cities.

EcCoWell Cork - 7th Heaven (Meeting)

Posted June 11, 2014 - 11:37 by Denis Barrett

The most recent EcCoWeLL session in Cork on Thurs 5th June went very well, with 74 attending, confined to those who had participated in previous EcCoWeLL events.

Glasgow - Future City Demonstrator city - Invitation to an event on 24 July

Posted June 8, 2014 - 11:49 by Michael Burns

Glasgow is the UK's Future City Demonstrator city and has developed considerable expertise in the design, development and application of future city solutions across a range of urban challenges.

These are to be found in big data, open data, transportation, energy, public safety, health, environment, communications, demography and climate change.

EcCoWell - Living and Learning in Sustainable Opportunity Cities

Posted July 14, 2013 - 21:42 by Peter Kearns

This paper has been prepared for the PASCAL Cities Learning Together Hong Kong conference in November 2013 to provide a short summary of the work undertaken under its PASCAL International Exchanges (PIE) project, to encourage more holistic and integrated approaches to building sustainable learning cities able to respond in a proactive way to the many challenges confronting cities.

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