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Tag Archives: city
Living and moving around in a post-earthquake city
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
Posted in Planning, city, and society, Sustainability and resilience
Tagged city, communication, Italy, planning, research
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New São Paulo zoning: the future of a mega city at stake
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
Posted in Planning, city, and society, Territory, landscape, land
Tagged Brazil, cars, city, planning, São Paulo, traffic jam, zoning
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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
Swarming Landscape – the art of designing for climate adaptation. A book review
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
Posted in Planning, city, and society, Sustainability and resilience
Tagged city, Climate change
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Are anti-homeless behaviours policies?
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
Posted in Beyond planning, Planning, city, and society
Tagged anti-homeless, city, London, mankind, Mike Davis, people, planners
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Some books on Lefebvre, for planners and geographers
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
