Inventing future cities
Professor Batty joins Andrew Carter to discuss how urban invention and reinvention can be brought about in the unpredictable twenty-first century, with a focus on the interplay between data, technology and urban form.
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The new enterprise DNA
Looks at how data, technologies, and design are changing the makeup of today’s companies;
why it’s essential to have a bold, agile digital strategy;
and how to help your employees find more meaning in their work.
A Divided Island: Sri Lanka’s Constitutional Crisis
A constitutional crisis created by the sacking of Prime Minister Ranil Wickramasinghe by President Maithripala Sirisena, and a plan to replace him with former President Mahinda Rajapaksa, paralysed the country’s legislative and executive branches as both Wickramasinghe and Rajapaksa claimed the office of prime minister.
Against this background, the panel considers how Sri Lanka’s opaque domestic politics is reflected by the government’s slow progress toward its pledges to the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) to address accountability and political reconciliation emerging from the country’s 26-year civil war.
How Saudi Arabia and Iran use Islam in foreign policy
Peter Mandaville and Shadi Hamid, both experts in the Project on U.S. Relations with the Islamic World at Brookings, discuss their new paper, “Islam as statecraft: How governments use religion in foreign policy.”
Climate Adaptation and Food Security in Alaskan Indigenous Communities
Indigenous communities are facing multiple challenges from a changing climate across the circumpolar North.
In this episode, two experts with extensive experience in the American Arctic—former senior Interior Department official Joel Clement and Nicole Misarti of University of Alaska—discuss with Polar Geopolitics the array of impacts affecting native Alaskan communities, and what measures are being taken to build resilience and adapt to climate change.
City Talks: how will Brexit affect cities?
A flurry of assessments of various Brexit deals has been released over the last week or so, each looking at the different impacts that leaving the EU will have on the economy.
Only the Government study — EU Exit: Long-term economic analysis — looked at the geography of the different deals, however, and how they might affect different areas. This in itself reveals something about how we think of the economy.
For this episode of City Talks, Andrew Carter is joined by Centre for Cities colleagues Paul Swinney and Naomi Clayton to discuss Brexit and its potential or likely impact on cities across the UK.