Interview with Tushar Agarwal, Co-founder & CEO of Hubble As lockdown restrictions ease on the 19th of July, we will likely no longer be asked to work from home. Many businesses are welcoming this reopening, while others have found that remote-working or hybrid work models work well for them. To find out whether London is going back to the…

Place-based economic development approaches have been gradually spreading across different areas of policy-making and governments levels around the world. Although place-based thinking is not new in regional and urban economic development, regulators and scholars were more focused on developing aggregate macroeconomic policies and frameworks during the first few decades of…

We are all working towards a shared future in which our cities are greener, smarter and more inclusive. Some are helping us move across cities; others are improving our quality of life by detecting air pollution. Others are helping protect the environment by supplying clean and renewable energy. Every month…

More than 56.2% of the global population now lives in cities. By 2050 68% of us will live in cities. We are moving towards what Shlomo Angelo described as the “Planet of Cities” — a global system of cities becoming more and more intricately connected. Today, 40% of the world’s…

Denmark is the second happiest place in the world, the easiest country to do business in and one of the most digitised economies and societies in the EU. The country’s small and integrated population is quick to adopt new technologies, making Denmark an ideal location for companies looking to develop…

By 2030 more than 750 million people will live in megacities. City populations worldwide are growing, and so is the need for stable, sustainable transport systems. Unreliable mobility ecosystems pose a risk to health and safety and exacerbate social inequality by limiting access to jobs, healthcare, and education. For cities…

Last November, the UN declared 2021 the “International Year of Creative Economy for Sustainable Development”. “The creative industries are critical to the sustainable development agenda. …

As populations grow, cities across Africa are increasingly implementing tech and data-driven solutions to tackle urban development and sustainability challenges. For a while now, smart cities have been seen as a solution to addressing urban challenges and bridging digital divides across Africa. Throughout the past decade, we have seen a…

By 2050, the number of people living in cities will increase by 2.5 billion. Almost 90% of those people will live in either Africa or Asia. Today, Cairo, Lagos and Kinshasa already have populations well over 10 million, making them mega-cities. Other cities like Johannesburg and Nairobi are following suit. …