In the PIE stimulus paper I wrote in 2012 on New York as a city of Neighbourhoods I mentioned the High Line as an example of an innovative urban park in which a obsolete aerial railway formerly used to convey industrial goods had been converted to a public park as a result of community action.

The Queensland Government has now released its Queensland Plan for the strategic development of Queensland up to 2030. The Plan comprises 9 interconnected foundations that sugge3st a fair degree of similarity with the holistic integrated approach developed by PASCAL under our EccoWell work. The 9 foundations of the Queensland Plan are Education, Community, REgions, Economy, Health anhd Well-being, Environment, People, Infrastructure, and Governance.

The United Cities and Local Governments Committee on Culture at the Third World Congress of United Cities and Local Governments recognised Culture as the "Fourth Pillar" of sustainable development joining economic growth, social inclusion, and environmental balance as the other pillars. It is worth discussing whether this view is valid and sufficiently comprehensive.

UCLG under their Agenda 21 for Culture has done a good deal to promote discussion of the cultural dimension of sustainable development.

The Hume Learning City Library at Craigieburn has been  named the International Public Library of the Year by the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions at the World Library and Information Congress in Lyon France.Craigieburn is the second Global Learning Centre developed by Hume City Council in Melbourne Australia with the LIbrary the centrepiece of the Centre.

Heritage Week is celebrated vn Ireland from 23 August to 31 August. It is expected that over 400.000 people will participate in events across Ireland. The County of Cork isw particularly active with over 130 events occuring during the week. Information on events may be found on the Heritage Council web site or the Cork County web site.

Preserving heritage can contribute much to learning cities and communities which have a deep sense of the past in charting their way into sustainable futures.