This newsletter from the Project for Public Spaces connects people who share a passion for public spaces to ideas and issues, news, quotes, places, and events from the placemaking movement.
I was walking around the office just now and bumped into John from the Strategic Partnerships team at NVPC...
If you are a working adult aged 35 or below with an idea of a community project you would like to bring to life, they have an interesting program for you!
The UALL Award Scheme celebrates projects, programmes, partnerships, and research that promote lifelong learning in the Higher Education Sector. The UALL Awards has now developed four categories to recognise the wide-range of work across the sector.
I am very pleased to announce that the external website for the Centre for Sustainable, Healthy and Learning Cities and Neighbourhoods (SHLC) is officially live! You can visit and browse the website here. It is World Cities Day today (31 October) today, so a highly appropriate time for this release.
The United Nations has designated every 31st October as World Cities Day. The day is expected to greatly promote the international community’s interest in global urbanization, push forward cooperation among countries in meeting opportunities and addressing challenges of urbanization, and contributing to sustainable urban development around the world.
A group of professionals and students from Donetsk University have paid a weeklong visit to Glasgow to learn about how to improve their leadership structures and to find out more about the Learning City concept and how PASCAL Learning Cities can provide support. The visitors, who come from Donetsk State University which has been displaced from Donetsk City to the City of Mariupol as a result of political conflict in Eastern Ukraine.