PASCAL subscribers may be interested in a recent series on 'Overstretched Cities' published by the Guardian newspaper in the UK. The series looks at cities across every continent. One of the blogs includes a short profile on Kigali one of the case study cities within the GCRF Centre for Sustainable Healthy Learning Cities and Neighbourhoods of which I'm Senior Business Manager.

We are pleased to publish the lastest of our Briefing Paper. This paper bt Chaor of the PASCAL Board, Professor Josef Konvitz, is entitled, The coming revolution in Public Services: What it means for Cities and Universities. Below is an Executive Summary.