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Comedia

Go to Comedia is increasingly involved with how cities communicate their ambition to their citizens and the wider world and how in turn citizens can more actively shape their urban future. We have worked with many organizations large and small, from small creative businesses to cities such as Helsinki, Adelaide, Johannesburg and Glasgow. We see ourselves as critical friends rather than as consultants. The need for businesses to be more creative began to be the accepted canon and people became increasingly interested in how the imagination associated with artists, scientists or explorers could also be useful for cities looking to rethink their purposes and ambition in the light of intense competition. The Creative City notion is now the umbrella concept for our work and crystallizes the range of what we do with cities: Vision documents; sector strategies; cultural policies and market research.

Cyburbia

Go to Cyburbia the first, and one of the best, urban and architecture reference sites. Mainly oriented to the USA.

Place

Go to Place Place is concerned with the built environment in South Australia – ‘our place’, the surroundings that set us apart from other regions. Its focus is South Australian but with reference to what is going on beyond the border to give perspective and relevance to our design and development activity. Place is the only magazine of its type in Australia. It brings design and planning in all its specialist forms under one umbrella as the key shaper of the built environment and how we live within it. It focuses on South Australia’s architects, planners, urban designers, landscape architects, interior designers, industrial designers, furniture and graphic designers. Plus their professional peers, collaborators and protagonists in design and planning education, and local and state government. An over-riding theme of Place is the sustainability - or not, as the case may be - of our approach to developing and maintaining the built environment, and its impact on the human and natural worlds.

Planetizen

Go to Planetizen the Planning and Development Network. One of the best planning portals, mainly oriented to the USA.

Strategic Forecasting

Go to StratFor With an unrivalled blend of strategic and tactical expertise, Stratfor specializes in providing situational awareness, focused insight and actionable intelligence in the areas of geopolitics, security and public policy to help our clients prepare for uncertainties and take action for maximizing results. Go to their Free Intelligence Reports to have high quality reports and thoughts delivered to your desktop.

Urban Cultures

Go to Urban Cultures Ltd is a specialist urban and cultural planning consultancy, providing services in the UK, Australia, New Zealand and Europe. Urban Cultures Ltd was established in London in 1991, and is now a leading independent consultancy in the field of dynamic and creative city development. Specialisms include the creative industries, urban regeneration, city and master planning, urban design of the public realm, the evening economy, cultural quarters and creative industry clusters and the cultural life of urban places.

Voices

Go to Voices Cyburbia’s online journal on planning.

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