Positive News Magazine - Issue 124

Future Urban Living – The technology, communities and people making our cities happier, healthier and safer places to live

Cities are often painted as bleak, dangerous and lacking in soul. This issue argues the opposite. Around the world, new urban centres are emerging at speed, designed to be interconnected, powered by renewable energy and built with climate-ready architecture at their core. In many cities, violent crime is falling. Car-dominated sprawl is giving way to green space. Communities are finding ways not just to restore the land, but to revive the civic spirit that makes cities feel alive.

Other features include: Ex-offenders educating others through theatre • Protesters who refuse to retire quietly • An unplugged holiday in Denmark • Female entrepreneurs in Yorkshire • Ian McEwan on AI and the future of the planet • France’s first LGBTQIA+ care home • The art of looking slowly • Aimee Fuller’s life lessons • Life after a terminal diagnosis • How to navigate a mid-career transition • You told us: what does patriotism mean to you?