What we learned this week

Placemaking is an under-appreciated philosophy in planning and design, and could play a much bigger role in an emerging wellbeing economy. So I’m pleased to see that the government is instituting a new Office of Place, and I hope its remit and powers prove effective and useful.

More details are emerging of the deal that will see Liberia cede 10% of its land to the UAE, that I wrote about a few weeks back. It’s not looking any better.

I wrote about the Climate Majority Project recently, an...