GCDN

Shape the cities of tomorrow at the world’s largest cities festival. Join us, Oct 22-24, for 70+ interactive panels and fresh perspectives from the world’s best urban thinkers. Including a GCDN panel moderated by Adrian Ellis, Oct 23 @ 11am EST #WRLDCTYhttps://www.wrldcty.com/ 

Re-opening strategies: what do cultural centres need to consider and where are the new opportunities? Join us in conversation with leaders from Taipei, Hong Kong, Melbourne and London tomorrow @GCDNethttps://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/re-opening-strategies-tickets-105378333432 …

“If we are to make really interesting places it will take collaboration” – Cities are complex. Developers need the courage to embrace that (via @BDonline)https://buff.ly/2LIt6nM 

Hungary’s Liget project recently hit a major milestone with the opening of one of Europe’s largest museum collections centres – The project aims to transform Budapest’s city park into a sprawling cultural hub (via @TheArtNewspaper)https://buff.ly/2L9NNZN 

“The 53-year-old Plaza has been updated into an accessible, welcoming outdoor urban space as a plaza for all to enjoy” – Following a revitalization project, #LA’s Music Center Plaza @MusicCenterLA will reopen on August 28 (via @nbcla)https://buff.ly/2MgOMHo 

Simply asking people what they want through consultations, surveys and focus groups isn’t enough – cities have to reach a much broader range of people and move towards true ‘co-creation’ (via @SmartCitiesW)https://buff.ly/2GvwGO5 

“Great public spaces happen through community-driven placemaking and place-led governance” – Leading urban change with people powered public space: the history, and new directions, of the placemaking movement (via @PPS_Placemaking)https://buff.ly/2YosBFk 

“By focusing on program first, a public space can become a hub of activities that both support and reflect the full diversity of our cities” – Programming for Inclusion: Enhancing Equity through Public Space Activation (via @PPS_Placemaking)https://buff.ly/2M76xsy 

Where’s the urban plan for L.A.’s biggest museum makeover in a decade? (via @latimes)https://buff.ly/2Y2cle1 

#Singapore’s Jewel @ChangiAirport has been nominated for the World Architecture Festival award, an annual competition considered the Oscars of the architectural worldhttps://buff.ly/2y1R04K 

OMA New York is turning a historic post office in #Houston, Texas into a complex featuring arts and music venues, workspaces and "one of the world's largest rooftop parks and farms" (via @dezeen)https://buff.ly/2RR6cL8 

Cities are increasingly recognising that culture has the potential to be a driver to address our climate emergency – @wccforum and @JuliesBicycle’s new report explores how city leaders are putting the environment at the centre of their cultural ambitionshttps://buff.ly/2KRxiBa 

A look via @NextCityOrg at pop-up parks, smaller green spaces usually nestled in an urban area that can last a day, weeks or on a permanent basis, and lead to more biodiversity in citieshttps://buff.ly/2LaDlkz 

A look via @NewCity at the rebranding project of #Chicago’s @NavyPier, that started earlier this year with the introduction of a new logohttps://buff.ly/2xqxH57