Delegates for the 12th PASCAL Conference are invited to propose Big Ideas linked to the themes of the conference in advance of the event: five of these ideas will chosen to be pitched in plenary session on Day 2 with a strict 5 minute presentation. There will then be a debate and vote for the best idea. That idea will then be developed into a longer presentation by the presenter and advocates from the conference, and debated further on Day 3.

Subscribers may be interested in the lastest issue of Urban Solutions from the Centre for Liveable Cities in Singapore. The topic is Active Mobility, a topic of interest to many of my colleagues in the Urban Big Data Centre here in Glasgow.

The latest publication of the UK Government Office for Science's Foresight Group led by Sir Alan Wilson on the Future of Cities has just been published. The Business of Cities authored by Emily Moir and Greg Clark looks at the way in which the relationship between cities and business is evolving.

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.