[2][3][4] Charles Landry was born in 1948 and brought up and educated in Britain, Germany and Italy.

He was educated at the Nymphenburger Gymnasium in Munich, Keele University in Staffordshire and Johns Hopkins in Bologna where he was assistant to Lord Robert Skidelsky.

Its publishing programme provided some of the intellectual backdrop to the emergence of cultural studies, involving authors such as Dave Morley, Ken Worpole, Geoff Mulgan.

[9] Throughout the 1980s and 1990s, Comedia supported a changing group of people developed projects concerned with urban life, culture and creativity and the future of cities including Franco Bianchini, Phil Wood, Sir Peter Hall, Jude Bloomfield and Naseem Khan.

Initially Comedia's publishing wing was most well known for research and projects on the future of cities.