A learning ecosystem built around one question: how do we make cities that think, adapt, and care at the scale of human life?
Every element of the Hub plays a distinct role. Together they form a learning ecosystem you can enter at any point — and keep returning to as your practice deepens.
Two structured courses that move you from the foundational ideas to applied practice, built around the City Intelligence Index.
A toolkit and an assessment instrument that turn the framework into decisions — for your city, your team, your research.
Two AI companions designed for open-ended thinking — to test assumptions, compare cases, and stretch what you see.
The book that grounds the whole ecosystem — the long argument, the full framework, the foundations.
Start with the free introductory course to see cities as living systems. Go deeper with the mastercourse for policymakers and researchers — the foundation of a wider learning ecosystem (more programmes below).
The foundational course for anyone who wants to understand how cities actually work — as living systems, not spreadsheets.
For policymakers and researchers. Built around the City Intelligence Index — six pillars, 150 indicators, mapped across European cities.
The flagship mastercourse sets the foundation. These are the variants — each tailored to the specific audiences who shape cities in different ways. Some are live, some in development, some open for collaboration.
An interactive platform where every pillar, indicator, and city in the comparison group becomes directly explorable. Run cross-pillar diagnostics, track trajectories over time, and apply the framework to your own city in your own context.
Explore the index →City intelligence delivered live, for high-stakes rooms.
Sections of the mastercourse — failure modes, leadership mindset, the ethics of whose intelligence counts — also work as standalone keynotes and half-day workshops, each with the empirical foundation of the CII.
Book a session →For organisations that shape cities — and want to do it as genuine partners.
Corporations shape cities more than most policy does — but usually without a structural map. This programme gives corporate leaders the diagnostic framework to read what a city actually needs and design partnerships that survive political transitions.
In development. Contact to express interest in cohort participation or in-house delivery.
For universities ready to lead urban transformation, not just study it.
Universities are long-term institutional anchors — they cannot relocate, they outlive political cycles. This programme equips university leadership to read the CII diagnostically and design partnerships where institutional capacity meets structural urban gaps.
In development. Contact to discuss cohort or in-house delivery.
The CII as a comparative instrument for postgraduate teaching.
A self-contained module that gives postgraduate students the comparative framework no other urban course currently offers. Students leave with the capability to read a city's CII profile analytically and design compounding interventions.
University partnerships welcome. Contact to discuss licensing, co-teaching, or programme integration.
The diagnostic framework for community advocates and engaged residents.
City intelligence is not only a tool for policymakers and researchers. The same diagnostic framework — understanding what structural mechanisms produce community outcomes — is exactly what citizen advocacy needs but rarely has access to.
Planned. If you work with community organisations, get in touch.
Once you've grasped the ideas, these are the instruments that let you apply them. The framework's central instrument, paired with its working AI companion.
A diagnostic for how cities think — not another ranking.
The structural framework behind the mastercourse and the book. Six pillars, 150 indicators, mapped across European cities — measuring whether a city has the capacity to learn, adapt, and improve.
Where analytical precision meets human imagination.
A working AI prompt library for the people shaping tomorrow's cities. Built to be used directly inside ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini — turning data into empathy, analysis into imagination.
Open-ended thinking partners for the moments when you don't know what you're looking for yet — when the question matters more than the answer.
Your research co-pilot
A customised GPT that distils years of research into an accessible guide for mayors, policymakers, researchers, and urban innovators. An always-on co-pilot for evidence-based citymaking — to decode indicators, compare case studies, test strategies, or explore new futures. It evolves as new research expands our understanding of cities.
Open the GPT →Cognitive infrastructure for urban thinking
Syn — for Synthesis, Systems, and Synchronization. An augmented intelligence partner designed for analytical amplification and pattern detection: it helps you slow down, surface second-order effects, and see what your initial instinct misses. The companion for the moments when the right question matters more than the fastest answer.
Follow on Instagram →The Future of Cities is where this journey begins — a book that redefines how we think about urban life, data, and collective intelligence. It explores how cities can move beyond efficiency to empathy, beyond management to meaning.
Between data and dreams, we find the courage to reimagine our cities — and ourselves.Buy the book
The Learning Hub is one part of a broader body of work. Here's where to go next, depending on what you're searching for.
The full framework: six pillars, 150 indicators, mapped across European cities. Where the mastercourse content comes from.
The book where the journey began. The long argument behind every course, tool, and framework on this site.
Peer-reviewed articles, policy briefs, and reports that ground the framework in evidence.
A deeper look at the structured learning programmes — full curricula, formats, and what's inside each course.
Where the analytical work meets the visual. A different way of seeing cities — and the people inside them.
For partnerships, speaking engagements, research collaborations, or city consultations.
The future of cities isn't written in policies — it's written in how we think, collaborate, and learn.