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Harnessing the visual public realm for community prosperity

How can public art and visual storytelling help shape cities that are more inclusive, more democratic, and more reflective of the communities they serve?

24 Jun 2025

Socio-spatial learning: A case study of community knowledge in participatory spatial planning

This paper looks at experiences of communities with spatial planning and applies those empirics to an underexplored area of participatory theory.

15 Jun 2025

The importance of social investment for UK economic strategy

IGP shapes economic strategy for the UK with The British Academy

12 Jun 2025

System archetypes of the energy transition: Feedback loops and levers of change

How can governments harness systems thinking to accelerate the energy transition in pursuit of net zero?

11 Jun 2025

Building Bridges for Ukraine: Pathways to Sustainable Prosperity

IGP launches new White Paper, part of a major initiative sharing long-term, sustainable ideas for rebuilding a Ukraine fit for the challenges of our planet’s future.

09 Jun 2025

Global Reach, National Impact: The soft power impact of the BBC World Service to the UK

This report is the first attempt to assess an individual UK institution for its contribution to national soft power - and the clearest picture yet of why the BBC World Service matters more than ever.

06 Jun 2025

Rethinking the Economics of Public Procurement: Towards a mission-oriented approach

Authored by Mariana Mazzucato, Eduardo Spanó, and Dan Wainwright

05 Jun 2025

Things We Don't Want to Know? Monitoring and Evaluating Place-Based Policies

A paper by Professor Max Nathan featured in the OECD's report, 'Place-Based Policies for the Future', aimed at advancing the debate on the rationale for place-based policies.

03 Jun 2025

Queer Spheres: Making and Un-making Worlds and Nations through London’s LGBTQ+ Night Spaces

Book chapter by Professor Ben Campkin in 'Urban Nightlife and Contested Spaces: Cultural Encounters After Dusk' (Amsterdam University Press, 2025), part of the Cities and Cultures Series.

01 Jun 2025

Engaged Urban Pedagogy

This book explores 12 examples of real-world engagement in urban planning involving people within and beyond the university.

26 May 2025

Canaletto’s Camera

BSEER Emeritus Professor, Philip Steadman, explores how the great Venetian artist Antonio Canaletto (1697–1768) used the camera obscura to create his celebrated paintings and drawings.

23 May 2025

European Natural Gas through the 2020s

This working paper looks at a decade of extremes, contradictions and continuing uncertainties for the European gas system

14 May 2025

Valuing the reciprocating services that humans can provide to ecosystems

A new article co-authored by colleagues from the UCL Institute for Global Prosperity examines not only what ecosystems can do for humankind, but also how humans can ‘give back’ or reciprocate.

07 May 2025

Valuing the cultural services of a forest protected area in Southwestern China

Co-author researchers from the UCL Institute for Global Prosperity examine the roles of online deliberation and sample selection in relations to conservation, culture and community

07 May 2025

Inheritance without the heritage: fig trees, ecology and imaginative attachments to fetih (conquest)

A new article by Sertaç Sehlikoglu examines fig trees and the ecological effects of imaginative attachments to fetih (conquest)

06 May 2025

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