IPPO Cities convened a policy roundtable to explore how city policymakers navigate new demands for the city centre as the core of urban life. The event focused on how city centres’ can become more livable, allow slow mobility within, and preserve their cultural identity while climate-proofing their infrastructure. By Henriette Ruhrmann.
IPPO Cities events bring together policymakers, experts, innovators, and practitioners to share knowledge and best practice about the key issues facing city officials and leaders. Our final event of 2022 tackles the initiatives and interventions that cities can take to encourage and enhance social capital. Our expert panel will provide their insights on mechanisms to promote volunteering, mainstreaming social capital at a strategic level, the benefits of social action, social innovation, and more. What is Social Capital? Although sometimes hard to define, social capital can be understood at a basic level as...
Ahead of our joint event with the Future of City Centres Network, Robert Rogerson (Institute for Future Cities, University of Strathclyde), and Bob Giddings (Department of Architecture and Built Environment, Northumbria University), set out an agenda for discussion. Robert Rogerson and Bob Giddings Listen to local and national politicians across the world, and the term ‘crisis’ appears frequently in their narratives about the city centre or downtown. By any of the traditional measures deployed to assess the success of the urban core – footfall, rental income, lease uptake, occupancy rates, business turnover...
IPPO Cities convened a policy roundtable to explore insights from the pandemic for city policymakers on the use of intelligence and data. The event asked how city policymakers took decisions during the pandemic, what worked and why, and what lessons could be applied to future crises and everyday decision-making.
