Join us for the second instalment of this year’s London Planning seminars.

Liverpool was once praised for its tolerance, but housing shortages are driving fearful, unsettling behaviours – and people are blaming outsiders, says Guardian columnist John Harris

Embedded finance and FinTech disappearance

In the late 1960s, the critic Bevis Hillier invented the term ‘Art Deco’ for the commercial architecture of the...

Join us for the first instalment of the London Planning Series. Dr Joe Penny will present the findings of Disrupting the Speculative City, a book he co-authored with Dr Amy Horton.

Join us for the second instalment of this year’s London Planning seminars.

The Civilization video games may not convey actual history very well, but they’ve encouraged generations of young people to learn more about the past.

Urban policymakers are adopting “alternative” economic development approaches such as doughnut economics and the circular economy as part of efforts to address ecological challenges in parallel to concerns about enduring social and economic inequalities. These alternative approaches are often combined in “pick-and-mix” fashion in efforts to realize complementary and mutually reinforcing benefits; mobilize diverse actors, including citizens and politicians, around plural visions of change; and address a range of city-specific challenges. However, a prerequisite for “picking and mixing” different approaches successfully is careful consideration of the logic of these approaches and how they might be put into practice alongside each other. We draw on Sabato’s notion of the eco-social-growth trilemma to suggest a need to surface potential tensions, especially when combining approaches that have different emphases on the synergies or trade-offs between economic (growth), ecological, and social objectives. The paper concludes by proposing a decision-making framework to enable policymakers to harness tensions productively by exploring and articulating the possibilities and limits of a “pick-and-mix” approach.

The campaign to propagate a new generation of think tanks “with Chinese characteristics” has been one of Xi Jinping's signature projects. Charting the…

Loughborough, Heriot-Watt and Glasgow corresponded with companies concerned about campus protests