David Simon
London
David Simon is Professor of Development Geography at Royal Holloway, University of London. He has published extensively on many dimensions of urbanisation and urbanism, the development-environment interface, and the interrelationships between theory, policy and practice. From 2014-19 he was also Director of Mistra Urban Futures, an international research centre on sustainable cities based at Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden, which worked through transdisciplinary co-production methods in local research platforms and smaller partnerships in 7 cities on four continents.
More by this author at The Nature of Cities
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The goal is to mainstream Nature-based Solutions, by widening public acceptance and making it the standard and default practice of urban design. What will it take to get there?
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How can nature-based solutions (NBS) provide the basis for a nature-based economy?
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Covid has upended all the normal routines in our lives and work. How do you imagine you might be changed by it, both professionally, but also personally as you negotiate a new post-virus “normal”?
Africa, Awareness, Biodiversity, Climate change, Communities, Conservation, Covid-19, Culture, Disasters/Red zone, Economics, Ecosystem services, Europe, Experiencing Nature, Green Infrastructure, Health, Justice, Livability, North America, Parks, Participation/Democracy, Planning, Pollution, Resilience, South America, Sustainability, Wildlife People Interactions -
TNOC Summit Dialogue: How can we provide living space for people?
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What I mean when I talk about collaboration. What is a specific experience collaborating on a project with someone from a different discipline or “way of knowing”?
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What did you read in 2018 that moved you?
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New Integrated and Actionable Urban Knowledge for the Cities We Want and Need
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Are cities ecosystems—analogous to natural ones—of nature, infrastructure and people? Does thinking about cities in this way help us think about urban design?
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Building Urban Science to Achieve the New Urban Agenda
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Habitat III is finally a reality. From your perspective, what would be the single most important tangible outcome (not output) of the event—short or long term—and what will it take to achieve this outcome?
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An explicitly urban Sustainable Development Goal has been adopted by the UN (#11). Now what? Where could it go wrong?
