Ruhi Shamim is a social media marketer and blogger, specializing in corporate social responsibility, urban planning and sustainable transportation, and cultural diplomacy.

FORBES: CSR And The Job Hunt, More Thoughts

Last November at Enterprise 2.0 Conference, Thomas Vander Wal and Gordon Ross spoke on What Urban Planning can Teach Social Business Design.

FORBES: Do Large Organizations Need Social Business More than Small Ones?

Can these very forms, supported by social media and new technologies, now extend to urban design and planning?

BBC: What if...you could design a city?

Once said to be the biggest social-housing scheme in Europe, it has become a byword for shoddy urban planning (and one of the main prompts for Conservative thinking about poverty).

ECONOMIST: Bagehot

The author of a Swiss study on climate change and health, Dr Nino Kunzli of the Institute for Social and Preventive Medicine in Basle, said the greatest health benefits would come from policies covering technology, urban planning, traffic speed and safety, and the promotion of walking, cycling and public transport.

BBC: Tackling climate 'helps health now'