The Place Bureau Launches Civic Futures

Are you ready for what’s next? Embark on an inspiring journey through the future of places as The Place Bureau shares its latest dispatch on Civic Futures. It’s the first in an evolving collection of tools and reports designed to guide placeshapers around the world to gaze into the future with greater confidence — developing places with deeper meaning, resilience and impact.

Covering fascinating insights on the a new civic role for our central business districts in the wake of changing work patterns, the rise of localism, the impact of generative AI on collective city-making practices, and the transformation of city spaces through open learning. Civic Futures invites readers to imagine new possibilities and provides practical propositions to turn those imaginings into actionable steps. Through a future-fit design process developed with The Place Bureau, Architecture, design and art studio Nebbia Works have responded to ideas in the report with a series of speculative stories for emergent civic spaces.

Download our Civic Futures report below. All the proceeds will go towards establishing a global cohort of young place futurists, who will help us to gather insights from cities and spaces around the world.

Stay connected with The Place Bureau for upcoming reports on Natural Futures and Cultural Futures, continuing the exploration of transformative place shaping.