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Category Archives: Sustainability and resilience
Cognitive mapping to understand neighbourhoods – Kenya
3 min read Editor’s note: This post is the concluding post in a series of entitled ‘Mapping – a tool to build urban resilience’ (see post 1 about community-led heritage mapping, and post 2 about environmental resources mapping for sustainable … Continue reading
Environmental resource mapping
3 min read Guest author: Olga Chepelianskaia (UNICITI) Editor’s note: This post reviews the importance of mapping local environmental resources using diverse data to support agricultural practices in the state of Karnataka (India). The post is the second one in … Continue reading
Posted in Climate change, Development, Ecology, Sustainability and resilience, Territory, landscape, land, Uncategorized
Tagged climate resilience, Data atlas, environmental resources, geospatial data infrastructure, Karnataka, Land Resource Inventory, Resilience, rural development, sustainable agriculture
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Cartoons for systemic change & recovery
2 min read We normally change only if we have to. A popular idiom encapsulates this: “Necessity is the mother of invention”. If we don’t acutely perceive the need to change, we might just settle for the status quo, and … Continue reading
Posted in Beyond planning, Climate change, Disaster management, Sustainability and resilience, Uncategorized
Tagged cartoonathon, cartoons, climate adaptation, Climate change, Community engagement, creativity, digital resources, digital technology, entrepreneurship, hackathons, innovation, institutional capacity, methodology, newnormal, recovery, serious games, spatial planning, systemic change, systems theory, urban planning, urban resilience
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COVID-19 and climate resilience: Effective disaster prevention and management practices
Read time: 7 minutes Guest author: Olga Chepelianskaia (UNICITI) Editor’s note: This post shares the findings of two related articles that link the current crisis with climate resilience. These investigate: 1) human encroachment into natural ecosystems; and 2) resilience planning in … Continue reading
Posted in Climate change, Development, Disaster management, Sustainability and resilience, Uncategorized
Tagged adaptation, blue green infrastructure, Climate change, deforestation, disaster, disaster planning, ecosystem services, emergency planning, green infrastructure, mitigation, preparedness, urban planning, urban resilience, urban sustainability
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Digital adaptations & reflections: from people to planet
Read time: 5 minutes In a time of global crisis, the digital keeps us connected and providing us opportunities to adapt and reflect both individually and collectively. This post shares some digital adaptations and reflections that stretch from the individual … Continue reading
Top 10 blog posts on the YA blog
Read time: 2 minutes This post celebrates the top ten blog posts published on the blog of the AESOP Young Academics network since its launch in 2014. It does so by way of a traditional list of the top ten … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, research quality and assessment, Beyond planning, Blogging, Dissemination, outreach, communication, Economy, PhD process, Planning, city, and society, Resilience, Resources, Sustainability and resilience, Technology, Territory, landscape, land, Uncategorized, VIVA
Tagged academe, academia, blog, Blogging, city-region, governance, mapping, OA, OA journals, open source, PhD, PhD defense, quality of life, spatial planning, sustainability, Technology, territorial planning, urban design, urban development, urban sustainability, urbanism, UX, VIVA, YA blog
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Placemaking: toolkits & books
Read time: 3 minutes This post is a companion to a previous post: Placemaking: trends & people. This post focuses on toolkits, methods, books and handbooks for effective placemaking in a range of contexts, from healthy streets and neighbourhood planning … Continue reading
Posted in Beyond planning, Climate change, Community engagement, Development, Disaster management, Nature, Planning, city, and society, Resources, Sustainability and resilience, Uncategorized
Tagged cities for people, cluster approach, disaster, Infrastructure, New Urbanism, open source, Participatory 3D modelling, participatory methods, place standard tool, place-making, Placemaking, regeneration, Resilience, resilient cities, urban regeneration, urban resilience, urban STEP
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Placemaking: trends & people
Read time: 4-5 minutes This brief post presents some trends and people that shape the placemaking movement worldwide. See the companion post: Placemaking: toolkits & books. Feel free to contribute more placemaking resources to: blog@aesop-youngacademics.net The post is structured as … Continue reading
Posted in Beyond planning, Dissemination, outreach, communication, Ecology, Planning, city, and society, Resilience, Sustainability and resilience, Uncategorized
Tagged cities for people, guerrilla gardening, life between buildings, participatory budgeting, participatory planning, permaculture, place-making, Placemaking, Resilience, social enterprise, social entreprise, tactical urbanism, urban acupuncture, urban gardening, urban health, urban planning, urbanism
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Highlights from 2018
Read time: 4-5 minutes 2018 was the year which generated the most traffic on the blog: 13,000 views and 9,300 visitors for 29 published posts. The posts covered such diverse themes as territorial governance, active mobility, sustainable food systems, development, … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, research quality and assessment, Beyond planning, Community engagement, Conferences, Dissemination, outreach, communication, Nature, Planning, city, and society, Public transport, Sustainability and resilience, Sustainable consumption, Technology, Territory, landscape, land, Uncategorized
Tagged AESOP, AESOP YA, affordable housing, built environment, cycling, Development, education, housing policy, impact assessment, Infrastructure, migrants, planning graduates, planning policy, public health, public participation, resilient cities, slow academia, sustainable food, Technology, territorial planning, Urban Heat Island, urban planning, urban resilience, urban sanitation
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Top 14 books & events of the 2010s (views from the USA)
Read time: 3-4 minutes As we enter a brand new decade, the American spatial planning community has been generous in providing retrospectives of the past decade. Here are some highlights. Planetizen, the iconic US-based portal for professional planners, researchers and … Continue reading
Posted in Beyond planning, Climate change, Conflict, Ecology, Nature, Planning, city, and society, Public transport, Resilience, Sustainability and resilience, Uncategorized
Tagged Climate change, environmental justice, Infrastructure, Placemaking, pollution, public health, Public transport, regeneration, Resilience, resilient cities, segregation, sustainability, tactical urbanism, urban planning, urban regeneration, walkability
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