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Rounding off our mini series of alumni interviews with leaders talking about how to remain resilient and effective in the Covid crisis, Alumnus Peter O’Brien talks to One Housing’s Ria Bailes about the need for empathetic leaders to respond to the wicked problems we now face.
Alumni Communities of Practice forum exploring how with working from home now the norm due to the Covid crisis, how should policymakers respond? Longer term, will this boost the appeal of suburban living as people’s priorities shift from wanting a manageable daily commute to more space in their homes and neighbourhoods?
Episode 1 of Future of London City Bites “Connections” series with Barbara Brownlee and Prof Tony Travers, exploring how UK government tiers interact most usefully for economic recovery.
How can we, as individuals and organisations, support vulnerable groups now to collectively pull out of this “V- or W-shaped” economic dive? How can we start to deliver the re-imagined town centres and local economies we want and not leave people behind? In the first of a three-part series exploring … Read more
This is a guest post by Chris Keys, Development Manager at L&Q and FoL Alumni Rep. With the UK lockdown beginning to ease, urban practitioners are turning their attention to recovery. To help, Future of London’s Alumni Network hosted its first online Communities of Practice forum in June. These peer-led … Read more
Covid-19 has hit local authorities hard, but they’re rising to the challenge. FoL Alumna Laura Davy talks with Nazeya Hussain, RB Kingston Executive Director of Place about resilience, leadership and priorities.
How has the third sector continued to deliver community services during the Covid crisis? How have priorities changed and what role will charities play in recovery? These questions and more were the focus of our latest City Bites podcast.
FoL webinar exploring different approaches councils, housing associations, developers and others have taken to maintain meaningful community engagement in a covid-19 world.
In episode two of the FoL City Bites podcast, FoL board member and alumna Nnenna Urum-Eke interviews Lendlease’s Managing Director for Development Europe Bek Seeley. Listen to them discussing the development outlook post Covid-19 and the ways developers have adapted their approaches to construction and public consultation.
A new podcast series where alumni interview some of London’s most influential leaders about staying resilient and effective during the Covid crisis. For the first episode, alumni director Lucy Webb interviews David Lunts fellow FoL board member, Executive Director at the GLA Housing & Land and interim CEO at OPDC about the public sector during lockdown and how London could change.