Posts Tagged ‘Professor Michael Parkinson’

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The Council are already trying to make Birmingham better. We held a conference in the year 2005 called “Birmingham – City of the Future”. At this conference Professor Michael Parkinson of Liverpool John Moores University said that Birmingham has made a good start, but needs to carry on getting better.

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Birmingham – City of the Future

The City Council and its partners have made a number of steps towards turning this ambition into reality. The ‘Birmingham – City of the Future’ Conference was held in 2005. During this conference Professor Michael Parkinson of Liverpool John Moores University described Birmingham as having a brilliant first act, but suggested that it now needed to open its second act.

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We asked Professor Michael Parkinson to write a report on how Birmingham could achieve its aims. He recommended that we should create a plan for the city centre — and that it should look at five things in particular. They are:

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Professor Parkinson was subsequently commissioned to ‘Vision the Masterplan’ to set the framework for the Big City Plan. His report recommended that careful thought be given to the best way to fund and deliver change in the city centre. He recommended that the Big City Plan should address five drivers of competitiveness, as follows:

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