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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
Cape Town Pride. Cape Town Shame
Carla Sutherland, Cape Town
I have lived in an array of fascinating cities, and visited a host of others. I have loved many (New York, Hong Kong, Harare and Berlin); been miserable in a few (London and Pretoria); oddly disappointed by some (San Francisco, Dublin and Sydney) overwhelmed by others (Shanghai and Cairo); and...
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Claiming Participation in Urban Planning and Design as a Right
PK Das, Mumbai
I believe that Urban Planning & Design (UP&D) should be considered a ‘Right’ and brought to public dialogue. The democratization of UP&D would be a significant step towards the achievement of just and equal cities. Exercising this right would be an effective means for bringing about much-needed socio-environmental change. The...
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Home-Grown Justice In a Legacy City
Karen Freeman-Wilson, Gary
I am the mayor of a legacy city, a city that rose and fell on the fluctuations of an industrial marketplace. Like Detroit, Cleveland, and dozens of other cities that have experienced continuous population and job loss since their peak, my hometown of Gary, Indiana, once provided the backbone of...
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Right to the City for All: A Manifesto for Social Justice in an Urban Century
Lorena Zárate, Ottawa
[The Right to the City is] the right to change ourselves, by changing the city. —David Harvey, 2008 The cities we have The cities we have in the world today are far from being places of justice. Whether in the South, the North, the West or the East, the cities...
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SCIENCE &
TOOLS
31 August 2021
Repenser la protection de la nature dans le contexte des Objectifs du Développement Durable Rethinking Nature Protection in the Context of the Sustainable Development Goals
Read this in English. Repenser la protection de la nature dans le contexte des Objectifs du Développement Durable en articulant action locale et régionale avec les politiques nationales et internationales Un constat sans appel Sur la base des listes rouges...
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PEOPLE &
COMMUNITITES
20 December 2015
Biocultural Diversity for Healthy Cities
At the heart of the concept of biocultural diversity is the idea that much of culture is based in the natural world, so a diversity of cultures and cultural phenomena arises from a natural environment with great natural or biological diversity. Human culture and productive land uses can actually promote higher biodiversity by producing many different habitats—a more diverse landscape—through...
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PLACE &
DESIGN
31 July 2016
The Aburrá Valley Must Finally Understand: Water is Also Nature!
Understanding the nature of the place in which a city exists must be a priority, and involves sensible use of the local context, building in a manner consistent with the particularities of topography—an imperative highlighted in the Colombian Andes—and appropriate...
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ART &
AWARENESS
23 June 2013
Subterranean Homesick Peregrine
As we celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Endangered Species Act, I thought I would tell a story from back when the City of Portland (Oregon) first was beginning to grapple with the implications of the listing of a species...
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