New Challenger Cities episode today on Forest City 1 with @shivmalik.bsky.social ... a big, bold and ambitious idea that seems almost ideally suited for a moment where Britain is apparently going to be open to such things. challengercities.substack.com/p/challenger...

Is it possible to build energy, transport, water and homes under one project? Owned by citizens to unlock their productive capacity. With those people now freed to create, foster, invent and prosper. Unleashed because they’ve built a foundation of strength. This is the mutual future.

With everything else that's going on, I missed this news about Alan Greenspan earlier: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Pursuing equality will fail to deliver UK citizens anything tangible. Money equally spread between all age groups and classes in the UK, won't: 1. Buy you a home 2. Solve the energy crisis 3. Build more reservoirs 4. Get more trains/ trams 5. It won't even fix potholes!

Was so humbled to be invited on the BBC’s Radical podcast to talk about building Britain’s first city in over 50 years. We need new places that not only make daily life more affordable but also give expression to all the new possibilities the future has to offer. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

In a deserted field 20 miles east of Cambridge, Shiv Malik wants to build a city of a million people essentially from scratch. The former journalist conceived his vision of timber skyscrapers after chronicling how young people were struggling. Read the full story here: ft.trib.al/6OrpIO4

Extracting land values to build a city with hundreds of thousands of affordable homes with trees and green spaces. What a novel idea, I think, as I look out of the restaurant window.

The case for Britain’s first new city in 50 years – @shivmalik.bsky.social writes for Arguably on his Forest City project and how it could define a new age of municipalism. www.arguably.uk/p/forest-cit...

giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... ‘Bonkers’: the audacious plan for a 1mn-person city near Cambridge Love to see someone putting their passion into motion and making stuff happen @shivmalik.bsky.social