Learning Cities 2030

PASCAL 2016 in Glasgow, 3-5 June: Prize from SAGE for best student paper

Posted December 11, 2015 - 18:30 by Caroline Sparrow

SAGE, the publisher of the Journal of Adult and Continuing Education (JACE), which is edited from the University of Glasgow, is pleased to be able to offer a book prize of £100 to the best paper submitted and presented by a student.

IISD/ENB Video on “Compact of Mayors: the World's Largest Coalition on Local Climate Action and Towards SDGs/HABITAT3”

Posted December 10, 2015 - 05:10 by Heather Peirce

On Monday, 7 December 2015, a side event highlighting experiences and achievements of the compact of mayors; the world's largest coalition on local climate action was organized by Local Governments for Sustainability (ICLEI) and the United Cities and Local Governments (UCLG).

Bristol Inclusion Workshop on Increasing the Wellbeing of all Citizens

Posted December 8, 2015 - 09:16 by Peter Kearns

The Bristol Learning City organised the third of the PASCAL Inclusion Workshops on the 12th November on the subject of Increasing the wellbeing of all citizens and communities in a city of contrasts. This followed PASCAL LEarning Cities Networks' Inclusion Workshops in Townsville and Glasgow.

Commonwealth Malta Declaration on Governance for Resilience

Posted December 8, 2015 - 08:24 by Peter Kearns

The Commonwealth Peoples Forum held in Malta on 23-26 November brought forward the views of civil society across a range of Commonwealth countries on building resilient societies. The Forum led to the Malta Declaration on Governance for Resilience featured below.

PASCAL 2016 in Glasgow, 3-5 June 2016, Strand 1 Inclusion: providing lifelong learning opportunities for all

Posted December 2, 2015 - 09:03 by Judith Jensen

Inclusion has been central to the concept of a learning city from the beginning. While useful work has been undertaken in addressing exclusion in both the PASCAL International Exchanges (PIE) and Learning Cities Networks (LCN) programs, global contextual shifts and issues with mass migration flows, instability and high unemployment in many countries, and structural industry changes have raised a new generation of exclusion issues to add to the traditional issues in various stages of the lifecourse. PASCAL will be addressing these issues at their 13th International Conference in Glasgow, 3-5 June, 2016.

Bologna Regulation for the Care and Regeneration of the Urban Commons

Posted November 22, 2015 - 19:39 by Norman Longworth

I came across this today which I think will be of interest to PASCAL subscribers: Bologna Regulation for the Care and Regeneration of the Urban Commons. The full text is featured below as is a summary of the most salient points.

We the City by Andrew Petter, President and Vice-Chancellor of Simon Fraser University

Posted November 21, 2015 - 19:05 by Budd Hall

Andrew Petter, the President of Simon Fraser University (SFU), has done a nice poem that I think that PASCAL's city networks would enjoy:

Smart City Learning - Special Issue of Interaction Design and Architecture(s) Journal (IxD&A) - Deadline Extended to 30/11/15

Posted November 20, 2015 - 17:54 by Carlo Giovannella

Special Issue on “SMART CITY LEARNING: OPPORTUNITIES and CHALLENGES” to be published at the Interaction Design and Architecture(s) Journal (IxD&A) (ISSN 1826-9745, eISSN 2283-2998).

Call for papers - Special Issue of the International Journal of Knowledge-Based Development: Connecting Cities and Universities at Strategic Frontiers

Posted November 5, 2015 - 12:53 by Josef Konvitz

*** Deadline for submission of papers: 15 December 2015 ***

This special issue will focus on strategic knowledge-based development frontiers in employment, migration, health, food security and climate change, and cultural engagement. These global issues pose problems at every level, down to micro-districts. They are strategic because what happens will determine the kind of cities and regions in which we will live. They are on the frontier because they generate conflict or could lead to greater co-operation. And they are critical to knowledge-based development because we do not know how to solve them; indeed, we do not even know how to cope with them very well, unsolved.

The Future of Cities: Big Data and the Urban Economy - Vonu Thakuriah, University of Glasgow

Posted November 3, 2015 - 21:05 by Roberta Piazza

This opening keynote at the 12th PASCAL Observatory Conference "Connecting Cities and Universities at Strategic Frontiers"
7-9 Oct 2015, Catania, Sicily, focuses on new modes of governance and operations in cities being enabled by Big Data. Increasingly, data necessary to understand and address many complex challenges facing cities cannot be found in traditional survey programs or data systems.

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