About the Festival

Karen Tsugawa, .
5 April 2021

5 April 2021TNOC SummitKaren Tsugawa

Many voices. Greener cities. Better cities.

Add a Comment
Join our conversation

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.

Learn More About the Festival

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

Justice that Serves People, Not Institutions
Mirna Goransky, Buenos Aires

The purpose of this essay is to share some considerations about the meaning of “just City” from the perspective of a lawyer dedicated to the reform of justice administration and, in particular, to the design of systems that promote, encourage and facilitate the approach of justice for the people. This...

3 Comment(s)
Join our Conversation

A Just City is Inconceivable without a Just Society
Marcelo Lopes de Souza, Rio de Janeiro

Once upon a time the city was called the “marvelous” one: Rio de Janeiro, cidade maravilhosa. Rio was the birthplace of samba, chorinho and bossa nova; internationally famous for supposedly being a city of fun and carnival 365 days a year, it has been the capital city of Brazilian proverbial...

0 Comment(s)
Join our Conversation

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,...

1 Comment(s)
Join our Conversation

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...

4 Comment(s)
Join our Conversation

OTHER ESSAYS ON SIMILAR THEMES...

SCIENCE &
TOOLS

2 October 2013 Cities as Refugia for Threatened Species Mark McDonnell, Melbourne

When we conjure up images of animals in temperate cities we think of such pesky creatures as pigeons, cockroaches, English sparrows, crows, rats and mice, while in other cities around the world urban dwellers encounter geckos, Indian mynas, monkeys, raccoon-dogs...

2 Comment(s)
Join our Conversation

PEOPLE &
COMMUNITITES

16 August 2015 London: A National Park City David Goode, Bath

Something very significant is happening in London. It’s a plan to make London the world’s first National Park City. Now that’s an idea that could catch on in a very big way. Over the past 18 months, a movement has been growing, drawing together Londoners who want to apply National Park principles to the whole of Greater London. The aim...

8 Comment(s)
Join our Conversation

PLACE &
DESIGN

3 December 2015 Can Large Parks be Urban Green Saviors? Maria E Ignatieva, Perth
Richard Murray, Stockholm
Henrik Waldenström, Stockholm

A review of the Large Parks in Large Cities conference, Stockholm, 2-4 September 2015. The prognosis for urbanization is challenging—in the next 40 years, urban population will double. Under the growing pressure of modern urban development, large parks are valued...

2 Comment(s)
Join our Conversation

ART &
AWARENESS

26 June 2017 Drought and Flood: A Silicon Valley Museum Explores Water, Society, and City Patrick M. Lydon, Daejeon

A review of “Liquid City,” The Darkened Mirror,” and “Fragile Waters,” a trio of water-related exhibitions at the San Jose Museum of Art, currently on view together through August 6, 2017. As the representative contemporary art institution of Silicon Valley,...

0 Comment(s)
Join our Conversation

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

OTHER ESSAYS ON SIMILAR THEMES...

SCIENCE & TOOLS

PEOPLE & COMMUNITITES

PLACE & DESIGN

ART & AWARENESS

SCIENCE &
TOOLS

PEOPLE &
COMMUNITITES

PLACE &
DESIGN

ART &
AWARENESS