POSTCARD FROM BOLOGNA, ITALY: learning from a modern renaissance
Returning to Northern Italy by rail in early April 2023 for a ten day stay in Bologna, my partner Esther Continue reading
Returning to Northern Italy by rail in early April 2023 for a ten day stay in Bologna, my partner Esther Continue reading
Visiting the peripheral Italian city of Trieste for the first time to assess it for the Academy of Urbanism’s Great Continue reading
Providing housing In our travels from Vancouver to Palo Alto we were appalled by the shortages of affordable housing, Continue reading
Connecting places In our three weeks of travelling between Vancouver in Canada and Palo Alto in Northern California we Continue reading
Growing intelligent or smarter cities One city that offers a glimpse of a better future is Portland Oregon, which Continue reading
Fostering innovation and new work This is the second set of impressions from a three week return visit to Continue reading
Growing good cities The latest in my Postcards From the Future, which now number over 40, deal with the Continue reading
Moving to a market economy and sharing land value uplift Returning to Sarajevo for a research conference almost fifty years after I had worked there as a management consultant for McKinsey and Company raised some fundamental questions over how the countries of Central and Eastern Europe should use their recently won ‘freedoms’ to build […]