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Culture, innovation and governance have always been, and still will be,
the drivers of the successful city in 2040
What makes a successful city?
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Don’t expect the cities of 2040 to be utopias
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Utopia
What did we miss?
All the other things we didn’t write about
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Culture
& SPORT
Real Estate
TRANSPORT & infrastructure
economy
Environment & SUSTAINABILITY
Community, DIVERSITY
& RESILIENCE
Placemaking
& Urban form
Health &
Well-Being
Governance
Office
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Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities
"Cities, like dreams,
are made of desires
and fears, even if
the thread of their discourse is secret, their rules are absurd, their perspectives deceitful, and everything conceals something else."
The best way to understand the future of the British city is to look at what it was like 20 years ago
Introduction
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OUR KEY THEMES
RETAIL
RESIDENTIAL
Industrial & Logistics
HOTELS
ALTERNATIVES
