Category Archives: Planning, city, and society

Feeding the melting pot: Inclusive sustainable diets in the multi-ethnic city

Posted on December 20, 2018 by

Guest author: Anke Brons (Aeres University of Applied Sciences, Almere and Wageningen University) Note: This post was initially published on the blog of the The Food Climate Research Network (FCRN) on 27 November 2018. In achieving the transition to more … Continue reading →

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Participatory budgeting made in France

Posted on December 5, 2018 by

Participatory budgeting is increasingly popular among local councils, and is now also adopted by regional and even national governments across the globe. The influential American non-profit Participatory Budgeting Project defines participatory budgeting as such: Participatory budgeting (PB) is a democratic … Continue reading →

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Looking for Aesop in AESOP: call for reflections

Posted on August 29, 2018 by

AESOP is broad and diverse community of scholars and practitioners at diverse stages in their career(s). The AESOP 2018 conference was a strong, engaged and engaging reflection of this diversity, which finds expression in the different thematic groups and wide range of … Continue reading →

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Building Ourselves Fat

Posted on July 31, 2018 by

Guest author: Jo Ellis, Blue Kayak and Northumbria University.  We all know that it’s bad to be too fat, don’t we? Voices on every side tell us so, particularly those of us who are female. On our right, there is … Continue reading →

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A motto to revisit and revise – EQUAL PAY. EQUITABLE PAY

Posted on July 6, 2018 by

In a recent article published by The Guardian written by Peter Fleming (Do you work more than 39 hours a week? Your job could be killing you), a few realities of job market and employment, with research findings of Columbia University Medical Center, University College London, Australian National University, US researcher Alex Soojung-Kim Pang; were highlighted Continue reading →

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Welcome to the cyborg: hybridity in place-making, Part 1

Posted on June 27, 2018 by

This is the first of two posts about cyborgs: what they are, and how they manifest as the hybrid objects and forms of knowledge that characterise much of place-making today. Is cyborg place-making a reality in-the-making? Or is it all … Continue reading →

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Planning as a profession and course of study : A floundering Planner’s Perspective

Posted on June 14, 2018 by

The planning as a profession in India is synonymous with either party/event planning or smart cities, nothing more, nothing less. Only a few know what planning as a profession and course of study is in India. And when one does, the picture has varied shapes and colours for those who are either a part of this professional or academia pool and for those outside this pool. Continue reading →

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