I appear to be coming down with a throat-cold (like a head-cold but more throaty) so I'm not going to try and read it, but you might like to know that Professor Michael Parkinson's Birmingham City Centre Masterplan Visioning Study (PDF, 1.3MB) has been delivered to the council. Others have read it already though.

D'log picks out the bits relevant to the creative industries.

The Stirrer wonders where the actual residents of Birmingham come into it all.

Nunovo wonders about the parks.

Birmingham Post report