Pauline McGuirk

1 month ago | tandfonline.com | Sophia Maalsen |Robyn Dowling |Pauline McGuirk |Tom Baker

ABSTRACTIn the face of rising housing affordability challenges, a diverse range of stakeholders are increasingly looking to alternative forms of housing provision and policy, and in particular, a turn to more explicitly experimental and design-inflected approaches. The process of prototyping is one of these. In this paper, we look at how prototyping is being used to address housing affordability in two ways.

2 months ago | onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Tom Baker |Alistair Sisson |Pauline McGuirk |Robyn Dowling

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Sep 30, 2024 | theconversation.com | Tom Baker |Alistair Sisson |Laura Goh |Pauline McGuirk |Sophia Maalsen

Since the end of his three-term New York City mayoralty in 2013, Michael Bloomberg hasn’t shied away from public attention. Presidential ambitions and global climate policy advocacy have kept him busy. But what is shaping up to be one of the most ambitious projects of the 82-year-old billionaire’s public life is not happening on the highly visible stages of national and international politics. It is unfolding in the stereotypically humdrum halls of city government.

Dec 11, 2023 | dailybulletin.com.au | Pauline McGuirk

Heavyweight international players from the OECD to Bloomberg Philanthropies and the United Nations have in recent years prescribed “innovation” as a solution for the many challenges city governments face. Innovation is a notoriously slippery term. For city government it generally involves deliberately questioning how things are done, leading to new and hopefully better ways of working.

Dec 6, 2023 | theconversation.com | Pauline McGuirk |Laura Goh |Robyn Dowling |Sophia Maalsen |Tom Baker

Heavyweight international players from the OECD to Bloomberg Philanthropies and the United Nations have in recent years prescribed “innovation” as a solution for the many challenges city governments face. Innovation is a notoriously slippery term. For city government it generally involves deliberately questioning how things are done, leading to new and hopefully better ways of working.