We were delighted to be invited to host two sessions on the future of cities at the prestigious and cutting edge sustainability conference Blue Earth Summit in Bristol.
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Remarkable City founder Duncan Ray hired a first-generation Nissan Leaf with an 80-mile range and drove it from London to Manchester and back to experience and test out the UK's public charging network first-hand. What he discovered is that the UK is firmly in the 'wild west' phase when it comes to electric vehicle infrastructure.
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We set up a new lightweight inward investment service for Barnet Council that extended and expanded its current branding to create a resource that can be used by Barnet and regional partners to promote London’s most populous borough to its target businesses.
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The first thing that strikes us about the Levelling Up White Paper is that there does seem to be a concerted effort here to set this whole area right. It does look like it goes past politics back to the ‘good old days’ of Heseltine thinking.
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We love working with London and Major City clients but we are also delighted to be also increasingly working with clients outside urban centres as well.
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Remarkable City’s Research Assistant Natasha Kerr is back with another new post that looking at how cities are supporting their economies as they recover from the pandemic. This time she considers six ways that data is helping cities bounce forward.
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Bill Grimsey launched his new report, Against All Odds, at pop-up retail space Sook in central London on Monday 19th July. It looks back over the pandemic and looks at how independent retail, hospitality and services businesses have adapted to survive the pandemic.
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In the first of a two-part series, Natasha, who has joined Remarkable City over summer, is looking at what is behind the rise in vacant units on the high street, which are a blight on the high street. In part two she looks at what different places are doing to address the issue of vacancies.
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In the first of a two-part series, Natasha, who has joined Remarkable City over summer, is looking at what is behind the rise in vacant units on the high street, which are a blight on the high street. In part two she looks at what different places are doing to address the issue of vacancies.
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In The Neighbourhood is a monthly streaming show about people, places, economies and communities. It provides a space to explore different aspects of city work and life with the world’s leading urban thinkers.
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Duncan Ray, founder of Remarkable City, had a good catch up with Tom Congrave, founder of Edge Economics, about the economic recovery, the Chancellor’s announcements over the last few months and what it means at a local level. We thought we’d share our chat to contribute to this important ongoing dialogue.
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Duncan Ray, founder of Remarkable City, had a good catch up with Tom Congrave, founder of Edge Economics, about the economic recovery, the Chancellor’s announcements over the last few months and what it means at a local level. We thought we’d share our chat to contribute to this important ongoing dialogue.
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In our continuing series of posts about COVID 19’s impact on the economy and our path to recovery, this week we consider what we’re calling the ‘great reconfiguration’. How we safely steer the economy out of lockdown.
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Whilst the majority of the help being provided to small businesses during the coronavirus lockdown is coming from central government, local authorities are also playing their part.
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Limited company people (LCPs), the COVID support package’s neglected tribe.
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We’ve written a thought piece on high streets. It’s great to see the work we do in the news so much at the moment and we wanted to add our own thoughts to the debate.
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We’ve written a thought piece on high streets. It’s great to see the work we do in the news so much at the moment and we wanted to add our own thoughts to the debate.
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At the beginning of April 2019 I caught up with Professor Matthew Carmona from UCL at his Place Alliance conference, called the Big Meet 9. I recommend being part of this network, it’s the broadest church of urban designers you can imagine.
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