Human-Centred Urban Service Design for Evolving City Regions.

People·Place·Planet·Prosperity

C IN C® is an independent research, design and applied innovation platform exploring how people, places, services, resources and value connect and evolve across neighbourhoods, cities and regions — bringing together top-down systems and bottom-up lived experience through cross-sector research, practice and knowledge exchange.

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The C IN C® Idea

Circular Interconnected Neighbourhood Cities

C IN C® network works between top-down systems and bottom-up lived experience, connecting people, place and services across sectors to create value that circulates, redistributes and replenishes locally, across neighbourhoods, cities and regions.

OPEN

We open towards each other.

IN BETWEEN

We work where connections happen.

INTERCONNECTED

People, places and services move together.

CIRCULAR

We create value that returns and replenishes.

The Enquiry

What creates value in neighbourhoods?Where does it go? Who benefits?

What circulates?·What is redistributed?
What is replenished?·How can systems work better together — top down and bottom up, across sectors?

ATTRACT

People · enterprise · ideas
opportunity · investment

INVEST

Place · services · infrastructure
skills · communities

RETAIN

Talent · enterprise · knowledge
resources · value

Economic·Societal·Environmental·Redistributive

Create value·Circulate value·Redistribute value·Replenish value

Research + Provenance

Developed through research.
Tested through exchange.
Grounded in place.

C IN C® has developed over six years of independent research, interdisciplinary practice, local and international knowledge exchange.

Read the paper
Urban Geography journal cover, Volume 47, Issue 4, 2026

B. Singh & A. Jonas

Human-Centred Urban Service Design and the Interconnected Neighbourhood City.

Urban Geography

Peer-reviewed
Volume 47 · Issue 4 · 2026
Pages 875 – 887
DOI: 10.1080/02723638.2026.2631573

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International Dissemination

Royal Geographical Society with IBG

RGS Annual International Conference
United Kingdom

AMPS

AMPS
New York City
United States

Regional Studies Association

RSA Conference
Porto
Portugal

Local · International

Locally grounded.
Internationally connected.

C IN C® takes a comparative and trans-local approach, learning across places rather than prescribing one model.

Greater ManchesterAmsterdamHelsinkiLisbonChicagoTokyoStockholmTorontoBolognaNew York CityMumbaiBogotáAccra

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Be part of what comes next.

C IN C® is connecting people and organisations across sectors, disciplines and places who are interested in the future of neighbourhoods, cities and regions. Join the guest list for research, gatherings, C IN C Events and workshop opportunities to collaborate, exchange knowledge and shape practice.

TOP  DOWN
BOTTOM  UP

Cross-sector · Cross-disciplinary
Trans-local

Universities · Cities · Civic institutions
Communities · Researchers · Practitioners
Investors · Educators · Funders · Enterprise

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In a world that is ever evolving, what creates value incity neighbourhoods? Where does it go? Who benefits? HUMAN-CENTRED URBAN SERVICE DESIGN Interconnectivity and innovation,informed by people and place. TOP DOWN · BOTTOM UP Top downmeets bottom up. Systems and policy meet lived experience. TOP DOWN BOTTOM UP IN BETWEEN THE C IN C IDEA OPENWe open towardseach other.IN BETWEENWe work whereconnections happen.INTERCONNECTEDPeople, places andservices move together.CIRCULARWe create value thatreturns and replenishes. CROSS-SECTOR Innovation across sectors. UniversitiesCitiesCivic institutionsCommunitiesResearchersPractitionersInvestorsEducatorsFundersEnterprise LOCAL · INTERNATIONAL Greater ManchesterAmsterdamHelsinkiLisbonChicagoTokyoStockholmTorontoBolognaNew York CityMumbaiBogotáAccra CIRCULAR INTERCONNECTED NEIGHBOURHOOD CITIES Everything of value happens in between.
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