Tomorrow’s City Centre
A project in partnership with Blake Morgan
On November 20th 2020, Blake Morgan and the Southern Policy Centre launched their research report exploring the future of the central South’s city centres. We were joined by Andrew Carter from the Centre for Cities and over 100 participants from across the region – representing councils, businesses and the community. Our report and the lively discussion at its launch demonstrated there is a real appetite for continuing a broad and inclusive dialogue about the future of our city centres. In early January 2022, we took the opportunity to revisit the topic, bringing together four speakers and an audience of around 60 people from across the businesses, organisations and institutions of the central South to discuss how city centres continue to change.
Download a copy of the report here.
Read our reports below and take a look at the short video of images created by our partner Drawnalism.
Re-imagining our city centres: one year on
Re-imagining our city centres: one year on In November 2020 SPC and Blake Morgan launched a report exploring the future of our city centres. For some time now we have seen changes in retail driven by on-line shopping. That fuelled a policy debate about the future of the ‘High Street.’ […]
Tomorrow’s City Centre
Tomorrow’s City Centre A project in partnership with Blake Morgan On November 20th 2020, Blake Morgan and the Southern Policy Centre launched their research report exploring the future of the central South’s city centres. We were joined by Andrew Carter from the Centre for Cities and over 100 participants from […]
Re-imagining Tomorrow’s City Centre
Re-imagining Tomorrow’s City Centre On November 20th 2020, Blake Morgan and the Southern Policy Centre launched their research report exploring the future of the central South’s city centres. We were joined by Andrew Carter from the Centre for Cities and over 100 participants from across the region – representing councils, […]
Re-imagining Tomorrow’s City Centres: Report Launch
Re-imagining Tomorrow’s City Centres: Report Launch “We can’t predict the future of cities, but we can invent them” Mike Batty, UCL Last week Blake Morgan and the Southern Policy Centre launched their research report exploring the future of the central South’s city centres. We were joined by Andrew Carter from […]
Trauma and change: will we do things differently?
Trauma and change: will we do things differently? In July 2020, Simon Eden published this blog in collaboration with Green Halo. In his book “The Language of Cities” Deyan Sudjic, Journalist and Director of London’s Design Museum, suggests that: “It takes trauma to make a complacent city invest in its […]
Tomorrow’s City Centres
Tomorrow’s City Centres. How can we bring our city centres back to life after lockdown? Before we had even heard of Covid-19 our city centres in the central South – Bournemouth, Poole, Portsmouth, Southampton and Winchester – were already facing some real challenges: declining footfall, shops closing and, of course, […]
How can the central South’s city centres successfully survive change?
How can the central South’s city centres successfully survive change? Living in cities Archaeologists tell us that the world’s first city developed in Mesopotamia, modern-day Iraq, over 6,000 years ago. At the heart of those emerging cities was space for people to meet, trade and worship. The UN has estimated […]