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Tag Archives: environment
Highlights from 2017
2017 was a year of continued growth for the blog, building on 2016. It saw 8,400 views and 5,700 visitors, for 19 published posts. The map of viewers grew compared to the previous year. As it happened, a common theme … Continue reading
Posted in Beyond planning, Climate change, Development, Dissemination, outreach, communication, Methodology and ethics, Planning, city, and society, Sustainability and resilience, Territory, landscape, land, Uncategorized
Tagged Climate change, Development, digital technology, dissemination, environment, minimalism, Resilience, smart cities, urban planning, well-being
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Bus Stations as a transition zone to deal with safety
Authors: Manisha Sharma and Chandrima Mukhopadhyay Users of bus services in Delhi, India, have identified safety as a vital factor to deliver quality services and attract users towards public transport, as based on a recently completed undergraduate dissertation (Sharma, 2019). … Continue reading
Participatory budgeting made in France
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
Posted in Beyond planning, Heritage and Planning, Planning, city, and society, Resources, Sustainability and resilience, Technology, Territory, landscape, land, Uncategorized
Tagged environment, participatory budgeting, participatory methods, participatory planning, people, public participation, social justice, Technology, Transparency
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How culture played a role in an environmental campaign
Guest author: Kedar Uttam This post presents an initiative that was undertaken by a civil society movement in Mangalore (South India) to fill the gap of cultural impact assessment which most environmental campaigns in that region miss out. It is … Continue reading
Open Defecation: A Coda of Geospatial differentiation by British India?
Swacch Bharat? A pan India mission launched with political support at the centre is a novel effort. But to eradicate open defecation from a society whose foundation is still influenced by Manu Smriti, sanitation pipes need to be dug deep. Continue reading
Posted in Academia, research quality and assessment, Beyond planning, Conflict, Dissemination, outreach, communication, Planning, city, and society, Resources, Sustainability and resilience, Territory, landscape, land
Tagged accessibility, anthropology, cities, Community engagement, debates, democratisation, Development, environment, environmental justice, equity, everyday life, Global South, governance, implementation gap, inclusive city, Indian cities, informality, Infrastructure, justice, people, quality of life, social justice, urbanisation, welfare state
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Urban Heat Island for Beginners: Part 4 *
Physics of the UHI Phenomenon The energy balance ambient air-Earth surface is governed by energy gains, losses and storage and can be explained by the following relation: Rn = [K↓ – K↑] – [L↓ – L↑] Equation 1 Global energy … Continue reading
Posted in Planning, city, and society, Territory, landscape, land, Uncategorized
Tagged environment, research, science
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Minimalism
In this blog I explore the value of minimalism for many aspects of our urban lives. I draw parallels between such varied phenomena as urban acupuncture, resource-optimised engineering, consumption practices, communication and personal philosophies. Aesthetics Minimalism is most famous for … Continue reading
Posted in Beyond planning, Planning, city, and society, Uncategorized
Tagged cities, environment, happiness, minimalism, people, philosophy, simplicity, sustainability
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The smart, resilient city: cliché or oxymoron?
The smart city concept builds on technological and governance innovations to better enable cities to face up to urbanisation challenges, including the ability to “bounce back” from social, environmental and economic crises and shocks. To become smart is to become … Continue reading
The Environmental Justice atlas
I’ve recently found (thanks to the Italian, brand new, excellent web-newspaper Pagina99) the Environmental Justice atlas by the Environmental Justice Organisations, Liabilities and Trade network. Over 1000 cases of conflicts and disputes are mapped and their stories and features summed … Continue reading
Posted in Conflict, Sustainability and resilience
Tagged conflict, EJatlas, EJolt, environment, environmental justice, land, resources
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