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5 April 2021

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Art, Science, Action: Green Cities Re-imagined

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TNOC Festival pushed boundaries to radically imagine our cities for the future. A virtual festival that covered 5 days with programming across all regional time zones and provided in multiple languages: 22-26 February 2021, 2200 participants from 72 countries. Outputs and new emerging projects will appear in this space soon.

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Other Essays on: 26 Visions for Urban Equity, Inclusion and Opportunity

The Case for All In Cities
Angela Glover Blackwell, New York

People of color are at the center of a demographic shift that will fundamentally change the global urban landscape. From the growing proportions of Latino, Asian, and African American residents in resurgent cities of the United States, to the diversifying capitals of Europe and the booming metropolises of Asia, Africa,...

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Creating Universal Goals for Universal Growth
Betsy Hodges, Minneapolis

There is a difference between equality and equity. Equality says that everybody can participate in our success and equity says we need to make sure that everybody actually does participate in our success and in our growth. A just city is a city free from both inequity and inequality. We...

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In It Together
Lesley Lokko, Johannesburg

“[A city where] everything comes together . . . subjectivity and objectivity, the abstract and the concrete, the real and the imagined, the knowable and the unimaginable, the repetitive and the differential, structure and agency, mind and body, consciousness and the unconscious, the disciplined and the trans-disciplinary, everyday life and...

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A City That Is Blue, Green and Just All Over
Cecilia Herzog, Rio de Janeiro

Since humans settled about 10,000 years ago, we have significantly altered and explored the landscape to create the civilization we now have. The landscape has been a source of material and non-material resources, feeding us in all senses. Ecologically rich landscapes associated with technologies were essential for all societies to...

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24 August 2015 Risk: How Can We Put the UN, Governments, and the Public on the Same Page? Fadi Hamdan, Athens

Urban populations—and the associated concentration of livelihoods and assets in cities—continue to increase worldwide, thereby increasing exposure to hazards. Coupled with aging infrastructure and housing stock, this trend leads to an increase in vulnerability. And this vulnerability is compounded by...

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23 October 2015 Creating Universal Goals for Universal Growth Betsy Hodges, Minneapolis

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12 March 2021 Knowledge Systems for Urban Renewal Chris Ives, Nottingham

“Science is meaningless because it gives no answer to our question, the only question important for us: ‘What shall we do and how shall we live?’ ” — Leo Tolstoy We know that our cities need to look and function differently....

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17 March 2016 What Can We Learn from Chinese Classical Gardens? David Goode, Bath

Step off the street in Suzhou through a small door and you leave behind the bustling cacophony of a modern Chinese city to enter a different world of tranquility and calm, where natural features create a sense of being surrounded...

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Other Essays on: 26 Visions for Urban Equity, Inclusion and Opportunity

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PEOPLE & COMMUNITITES

PLACE & DESIGN

ART & AWARENESS

SCIENCE &
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PEOPLE &
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PLACE &
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ART &
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