Let’s get rid of these things from our cities

Today I was the victim of some very aggressive driving from a Range Rover Vogue driver, nearly pushing me into the kerb and causing an accident. So I thought that today was as good as any to write up another one of the interesting things that came out of the Birmingham City Centre Masterplan “Big [...]

How about we design Birmingham with a WIKI?

Too many ideas, not enough time to write them all down before I’m on to the next thing. That’s my problem.
So the Masterplan event last week has really tweaked a few things in my head, and I’ve suddenly begun thinking about a large number of issues and ideas almost constantly since then.
To be honest I’ve [...]

Birmingham - the Big City Plan “City Team”

As I’ve said in a previous post, I’ve been invited to be part of Birmingham’s ‘City Team’ which is a group of people brought together to come up with big ideas for how Birmingham might change for the better over the coming ten to twenty-five years as part of a ‘masterplanning’ process being branded as [...]

Reporting back on Crowdsourcing

Thanks to everyone for their comments on the “Who wants to redesign Birmingham?” post. You really blew me away!
So - I’ve just got back from two days of discussions, speeches, presentations, private chats, video interviews, and so on.
I’m condensing everything into a blog post outlining what was said and decided, but before I do that [...]

Crowdsourcing scales up - Who wants to redesign Birmingham?

Image from Plus - blog on this coming soon
I’ve just come back from an exciting meeting and I’m wired, so rather than sit down and eat my dinner (sorry Emily) and have 1001 things rolling around in my head I’m going to write as much down here as I can.
The meeting was one of the [...]