From the AESOP YA we want to share this article by African Centre for Cities (ACC) Director Edgar Pieterse, and … More
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Proposed scenarios for assessing Social Resilience of Urban Open Spaces in the “arrival” cities of Greece
22 min. read Authors: Eleni Oureilidou1,*, Konstantinos Ioanidis2 1PhD candidate, School of Architecture, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki2PhD, Associate Professor, School … More
Through the Looking Glass: why public engagement in cities should be about (more than) reflexion/reflection
Place-making affects all of us. Yet how many of us, apart from place-making professionals and decision-makers, can really shape the … More
East Kolkata Wetland: Seeing through the lens of “Urban metabolism”
‘Urban metabolism’, ‘resiliency’ and ‘sustainability’ are competing concepts. ‘Sustainability’ is the oldest and more like an umbrella term for the … More
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 … More
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 … More
“Bring back the Royal Arch!” Dealing with the past in Scotland’s independence city.
Guest author: Andrew Hoolachan, Department of Architecture, University of Cambridge. The city of Dundee is Scotland’s most pro-independence city. The … More
Big Data in Planning and Research
Big Data has had a fast career as new topic (and occasionally buzzword) in the social sciences during the last … More
Planetizen’s 2014 top 10 websites in planning
‘Planetizen is a public-interest information exchange for the urban planning, design, and development community. It is a one-stop source for … More
A journalistic phronetic research: Anna Minton’s Ground Control
I often hear academic colleagues that criticize others’ works by labelling them as “good journalistic inquiries”. The underlying idea, here, … More
