| Description | The Human City Institute was established in 1997 as a 3 year project to work for a shared vision of Birmingham as a ‘human city’. Via a network of organisations, groups and individuals across the city, it aimed to encourage and support communities to be diverse and inclusive, and engage in partnership working and cross-sector dialogue. To achieve these aims, it held workshops, conferences and public meetings, published newsletters and other papers on topics such as citizenship, banking, policing, healthcare, retirement, education, family, democracy, transport systems, sustainability, neighbourhood offices, religion. It also researched how alienation, discrimination and poverty could be addressed, and partnered those seeking change with those who had succeeded in making change happen. Warwickshire Monthly Meeting was one of the founding sponsors and sent a representative to Governing Council Meetings from 1997 - 2002. The Human City Institute is still in existence at the time of cataloguing (2016) |