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Laura Booth,
San Francisco.
25 July 2015
Art, Science, Action: Green Cities Re-imagined
Laura Booth, San Francisco.
Other Essays on: 26 Visions for Urban Equity, Inclusion and Opportunity
Resistance, Education and the Collective Will of the Just City
Jack Travis, New York City
What has happened is that in the last 20 years, America has changed from a producer to a consumer. And all consumers know that when the producer names the tune, the consumer has got to dance. That’s the way it is. We used to be a producer—very inflexible at that,...
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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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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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Urban Spaces and the Mattering of Black Lives
Darnell Moore, New York
It was close to midnight. A youngish, jovial-looking white woman with russet colored hair ran by me with ostensive ease. She donned earphones and dark, body-fitting jogging attire. I was walking home from the A train stop and along Lewis Avenue, which is a moderately busy thoroughfare that runs through...
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SCIENCE &
TOOLS
7 September 2015
Civic Ecology Meets EdX: An Experiment in Online Social Learning and Action
A pop-up garden in Kiev, volunteer “spotfixes” along sidewalks in Bangalore, and a flower garden planted atop a deadly landslide after an earthquake in Japan. These and other civic ecology practices are expanding in number. But how do we connect...
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PEOPLE &
COMMUNITITES
26 June 2023
Urban Parks During Heat and Drought Conditions: A Case Study in Leipzig, Germany during the 2018 and 2019 Heat Periods
Assessing the cooling function of urban parks under heat and drought conditions Thanks to the cooling function of the vegetation, urban parks offer cool, pleasant places in cities during hot summer days. Urban parks are also places for recreation and social interaction. In parks, people go jogging or cycling, meet friends, or relax during their lunch breaks (Nadja Kabisch et...
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PLACE &
DESIGN
18 November 2018
Legacy as Visioning Tool: Urban Greening in Zagreb
When we consider planning for green infrastructure, we typically think forward to what kind of city we might imagine for the future. Far less frequently do we consider the history of the city and how past generations have shaped the...
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ART &
AWARENESS
30 December 2024
Highlights from The Nature of Cities 2024
Cities are, at their best, collaborative masterpieces, aren’t they? They emerge from the interplay of diverse professions, ways of knowing, modes of action, governments, and, most importantly, the people who call them home. They are cultural, ecological, human, and non-human....
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