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Housing, inclusion and growth?
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Anticipating the driverless future: Threat or saviour for cities and societies?

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Regitze Marianne Hess, Director, International Affairs, IFHP
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Conor Healy, Chief Executive, Cork Chamber of Commerce
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David Flannery AoU, Director, Scott Tallon Walker
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Susie Stirling, Head of Placemaking & Housing, Scottish Government
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Seán Kearns, Director, Reddy Architecture + Urbanism
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Immy Kaur, Co-founder, Impact Hub Birmingham
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Susana Ruiz Fernandez Architect, Urban Planning Office, City of Bilbao
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Shane Clarke, CEO, Nano Nagle Place
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Kevin Murray AoU, Director, The Academy of Urbanism
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Jeffrey Tumlin, Director, Nelson\Nygaard Consulting Associates

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Cities on the rise

Second cities and the perils of laissez-faire development

Having grown up in Dublin, I didn’t expect to like Cork when I visited it for the first time as
Cities on the rise

Cork: A City of Making – in the Making

Ahead of this year’s Congress, in this piece, the second in our series exploring Cork and its city-region, Mary McCarthy,
Cities on the rise

Why Cork? Why now?

In the first of our series of articles on the city-region of Cork – the location of the Academy’s 2018
Cities on the rise

Cities on the rise

The success of our cities has become central to national economies and culture. They are drivers of investment, tourism and

The success of our cities has become central to national economies and culture. They drive investment, tourism and migration – the young, the educated, the creative and the rich are being drawn to live and work in urban areas once again.

As we have seen with Aarhus, Marseille and Rotterdam, the transformation of mid-level non-capitals is providing space for new ideas, enterprise, investment and even building types. But can growth and expansion provide an economy and wellbeing whilst also retaining a distinctive identity?

Where better to explore this than in Cork, Ireland’s great maritime city on the Atlantic rim of Europe. Once the staging post for European emigration to the US, it now sees people and investment flow in the other direction.

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