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Living and moving around in a post-earthquake city

Posted on March 24, 2016 by

Seven years ago, during the night of 6 April 2009 the city of L’Aquila suffered one of the most tragic events in the modern history of Italy. At 3:32 A.M. a seismic event of 6.3 magnitude, which was preceded by … Continue reading →

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New São Paulo zoning: the future of a mega city at stake

Posted on March 10, 2016 by

Once in São Paulo, take as many photos as you want because the city you know is about to radically change in a few years. The bustling Latin America financial capital, home to more than 20 million people in its … Continue reading →

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Framing Urban Resilience within the UN Sustainable Development Goals: still gaps between theory and policy guidelines?

Posted on September 23, 2015 by

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 →

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Swarming Landscape – the art of designing for climate adaptation. A book review

Posted on April 29, 2015 by

In the last decades cities have been responsible for the majority of greenhouse gas emissions. In turn, the effects of climate change such as extreme natural events – for instance hurricanes – have violently plagued cities creating social and economic … Continue reading →

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Are anti-homeless behaviours policies?

Posted on June 10, 2014 by

I was sincerely shocked by this news. You may be thinking of me as a naive fellow, yet I was not ready at all. Well I did already know that this kind of “policies” (I shall try to explain below … Continue reading →

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Some books on Lefebvre, for planners and geographers

Posted on April 2, 2014 by

There’s a bunch of books which recently came out, useful to grasp Henri Lefebvre’s legacy in urban studies and theory. Well, in recent times, planning and critical urban studies have been finding again the route for fruitful dialogues and the works … Continue reading →

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