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Author Archives: Lorenzo Chelleri
Framing the right research questions in dealing with Urban Resilience: introducing Urban Resilience Research Network (URNet)
One of the main challenges in dealing with research is indeed framing the right questions. Einstein’s quote “if I had one hour to solve a problem, I’d spend 55 minutes defining the problem and 5 minutes thinking about the solution” … Continue reading
Are Urban Sustainability and Resilience legitimizing social un-justice?
Authors: Lorenzo Chelleri and Isabelle Anguelovski The concept of urban sustainability has been around for many decades, receiving the attention of the whole spectrum of urban experts, sectors and disciplines. It also received many and different critics while at the … Continue reading
How could urban design embrace change and uncertainty?
Guest author: Alessandra Feliciotti. Urban Design Studies Unit – UDSU, Department of Architecture, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Uk We know nothing: the end of the positivistic dream If there is a couple of words that seems to fit perfectly our … Continue reading
From Green-washing to Carbon-washing: True Smart and Green Cities?
I’d like to share here some thoughts among us, in the light of the recent agreement reached in Paris at the COP21, and respect to some emerging issues when framing the agenda for building the future green and smart cities. … Continue reading
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Framing Urban Resilience within the UN Sustainable Development Goals: still gaps between theory and policy guidelines?
This weekend, 25 – 27 September 2015, more than 150 world leaders will attend the United Nations Sustainable Development Summit, in New York, to formally adopt the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) setting the Post 2015 Development Agenda. In 2000, UN … Continue reading
A Global Virtual Roundtable on How to Measure, Why to measure, Cities Resilience
Since more than a decade, urban resilience has entered political agendas worldwide, academic debates, and within this blog specific interest, planning debates. The Joint AESOP/ACSP conference titled “Planning for Resilient Cities and Regions” (Dublin, July 2013) already explored and addressed … Continue reading
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