Category Archives: cities

The Future is 20 minutes away? 20-minute neighbourhoods

Posted on 20 November, 2019 by

The Future is 20 minutes away? 20-minute neighbourhoods. By Carolyn Kagan As we move towards a future in urban areas where people travel less, buy locally and live more convivial lives, we need vital and liveable neighbourhoods. This means we … Continue reading →

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How Green is My City? A Response to Manchester City Council leader’s blog post.

Posted on 16 October, 2019 by

Response to Manchester City Council leader’s blog post: How Green is My City Mark Burton (Submitted as a comment on Manchester City Council website and annotated here with links.  Comments appear to be disabled on the Leader’s blog, although the … Continue reading →

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Fearless Cities: could we have the new municipalism in Greater Manchester?

Posted on 13 August, 2018 by

Fearless Cities: the new municipalism. NEW!  January, 2019.  English edition of the book now available from (click->) New Internationalist.  Today it is easy enough to think that people are not interested in politics, or even that they don’t value democracy. … Continue reading →

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Policies, policies, but are they any good?

Posted on 19 July, 2017 by

Earlier this year we published our paper: Policies for the City Region. How does what we are proposing differ from what others are saying? Where do we agree with others proposing alternative approaches to the ones that have dominated our … Continue reading →

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Greater Manchester: Towards a retrofit Garden City?

Posted on 7 March, 2017 by

Greater Manchester: Towards a retrofit Garden City? We have been critical of recent plans in Greater Manchester1 but what might a better approach look like? At our latest conversation event we considered the idea of making the city region more … Continue reading →

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What kind of a city and region do we want?

Posted on 23 February, 2017 by

Success as building frenzy: the Manchester model Someone once told me that for Sir Howard Bernstein, the retiring Chief Executive of Manchester City Council, his measure of success was the number of cranes visible on the city’s skyline. True or … Continue reading →

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Greater Manchester Garden City – a viable alternative?

Posted on 17 February, 2017 by

Conversation event:  Greater Manchester Garden City – a viable alternative? Thursday 2 March, 6.30pm, Methodist Central Hall, Oldham Street, Manchester.   Book via EventBrite We’ll be showing Tom Bliss’s film that reviewed the Garden City concept and suggested applying it retrospectively … Continue reading →

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STEADYSTATE Part Two: The Local and Regional Context

Posted on 18 October, 2016 by

This is the second part of our interview piece  in Manchester’s Now Then magazine. Click HERE to read the interview.  Thanks to Ian Pennington at Now Then for inviting us and publishing our thoughts.  The first part, on the wider … Continue reading →

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