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This section provides news about PASCAL together with significant developments in policy and research relating to the areas of interest to PASCAL. It is based on regular scanning of policy, practice and academic literature, including web-based sources.

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Learning Cities in development and sustainable recovery: International experiences

Posted May 25, 2021 - 09:45

PASCAL associates, including from key cities in its Learning Cities Network, and Centre for Sustainable, Healthy, Learning Cities and Neighbourhoods collaborator were very pleased on 19 May 2021 to be able to make a contribution to a one-week series of events (see attached programme) organised by the University of Derby in the UK around GCRF issues. Shipi Roy, Mike Osborne, Vincent Manirakiza and Pierre Claver together with Sebutege Ange (Mayor of Huye) all made contributions to a workshop entitled, Learning Cities in development and sustainable recovery: International experiences and the Derby Learning City Campaign chaired by Peter Dewhurst, Director of Strategic Projects, University of Derby.

PIMA Bulletin No. 36 (May 2021)

Posted May 25, 2021 - 08:03

Editorial The year ahead – a turning point? – medium and long-term challenges – proposed contents for the rest of 2021 - Chris Duke.

Foolhardy it may be in this second year of pandemic, but first to sketch how the rest of 2021 may look, if only in terms of this Bulletin. The aspiration at least says something about what this year, pandemic apart, feels most pressing in importance and urgent.

The Trends that Defined the Pandemic | Placemaking Weekly

Posted May 23, 2021 - 07:47

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.

NewCities threesixtyCITY | We've reached our first milestone: Twenty episodes!

Posted May 20, 2021 - 08:21

threesixtyCITY - A NewCities Podcast | Each week we sit down with today’s most relevant urban thinkers to discuss the forces and trends molding our modern cities. From planning, policy, and design, to nomad cities, AI and automation, health and wellbeing, architecture and housing and beyond, we cover urbanity from all angles. Shaping better cities for all, one episode at a time. 

Transformation Through Empathy Partnerships Webinar | A report by Jac Torres-Gomez, Wyndham City Council, Australia and Yvonne Lane Learning Limerick, Ireland

Posted May 20, 2021 - 07:04

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On Thursday 13 May 2021, Learning Limerick and Wyndham Learning City partnered to co-lead a webinar entitled: Transformation Through Empathy Partnerships. This was an initiative led through the PASCAL EcCoWell group, building on the paper developed by Peter Kearns in 2020.

 

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