I've just spent a very enjoyable hour reading Tom Forth’s delightfully unfiltered essay on “Why North England is Poor”, and Paul Swinney’s almost-but-not-quite supportive respose on the Centre for Cities blog. I’m in no position to add anything substantive to their analysis, however a couple of things did stand out to me…

A quick run down of things that have caught my attention recently…

It occurred to me that I could use Chat-GPT to create some typical questions relating to smart cities, and then pose those questions back to the AI in order to get standardised answers which I could then evaluate.

This is a long form version of the introductory talk I gave for our panel discussion during the Zigurat Innovation Week at the end of June. focussing on how smart city projects can attempt to address multiple urban challenges simultaneously.