Monthly Archives: October 2014
How should Birmingham react to a Global Report on Climate Change
Has it happened to you? You realised you have missed an important document in your field? Well it happened to me when I was listening to Albert Bore giving his Brussels speech in October 2014 on how cities and regions can lead in the response to climate change. Now I don’t think this is a […]
Our Cities need our Universities
There was a welcome report last week from the City Growth Commission on the importance of Universities for the UK’s largest Metros and what Universities and Cities could do to increase their importance and linkages to their local economies. The link to the ‘UniverCities: The Knowledge to Power UK Metros report‘ is here. Let me say […]
EU OpenDays 2014 – 12th European week of Regions and Cities
Just got back from this annual event and thought I would briefly summarise my experiences and thoughts. Well the sessions are mainly about EU Structural funds or as they are generally known now as ESIF. The trouble was for this year we are right at the end of one period and right at the beginning […]
UrbanPivot 