Welcome to urban answers
Founded by Robin Hambleton in 2007, Urban Answers works with partners in the UK and internationally to assist city leaders meet the public management and democratic renewal challenges they now face.
In a globalising and rapidly changing world, urban leaders and public service providers need to innovate as never before.
Our focus is innovation
• How to frame emerging challenges in new ways
• How to generate practical solutions
• How to draw lessons from abroad.
Place-based leadership
Global forces are destroying communities across the world. This troubling trend is now meeting resistance. Local governments, social movements and reforming political parties are, in different ways, developing strategies for resisting the exercise of placeless power. Urban Answers is working to develop new ways of strengthening place-based leadership. Innovative localities in different parts of the world provide valuable insights on how to ensure that the processes of governance are more responsive to the needs of local communities.
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Current comments
Urban Answers offers comments on hot topics for policy makers. These cover: leading places in changing times; place-based leadership and public service innovation; total place; tackling climate change; new roles for urban universities; and analysis of global urban trends.
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