Postcard From Reggio Emilia: Wellbeing and economic growth through cooperation February 2025July 2025 Reggio Emilia stands out as a city with institutions that secure high levels of cooperation and wellbeing. Along with other cities in Emilia Romagna it provides inspiration for how to transform a city to meet the needs of all.
POSTCARD FROM BOLOGNA, ITALY: learning from a modern renaissance June 2023July 2025 Returning to Northern Italy by rail in early April 2023 for a ten day stay in Bologna, my partner Esther and I were struck by how well everything now seemed to work. Whereas both our governments appear out of touch, Italian cities have had enough autonomy to create great places to live and work, while…
Postcard from Trieste, Italy November 2022July 2025 Visiting the peripheral Italian city of Trieste for the first time to assess it for the Academy of Urbanism’s Great City Award, I was glad to come across travel writer Jan Morris’s final book, which she titled memorably Trieste and the meaning of nowhere. Located on a spit which juts out into the Adriatic on…
Postcards from the Future: a journey over three continents December 2019June 2025 Over the past five years Nicholas Falk has visited many cities, often to take part in conferences or other events, and has generally produced a short essay accompanied by a selection of around ten images. These have now been compiled together, and some will reappear in a new book on how cities can change direction and make themselves more sustainable.
