Tag Archives: planning

Through the Looking Glass: why public engagement in cities should be about (more than) reflexion/reflection

Posted on October 16, 2016 by

Place-making affects all of us. Yet how many of us, apart from place-making professionals and decision-makers, can really shape the places we live in? This post argues that engaging the public in place-making should at least be about mutual learning, … Continue reading →

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East Kolkata Wetland: Seeing through the lens of “Urban metabolism”

Posted on June 15, 2016 by

‘Urban metabolism’, ‘resiliency’ and ‘sustainability’ are competing concepts. ‘Sustainability’ is the oldest and more like an umbrella term for the rest. ‘Urban metabolism’ is rather the newest amongst them. In this blog, I aim to explore which of the three … Continue reading →

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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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“Bring back the Royal Arch!” Dealing with the past in Scotland’s independence city.

Posted on October 5, 2015 by

Guest author: Andrew Hoolachan, Department of Architecture, University of Cambridge. The city of Dundee is Scotland’s most pro-independence city. The Scottish National Party represents the city at all tiers of governance and the city returned the highest percentage of voters … Continue reading →

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Big Data in Planning and Research

Posted on December 8, 2014 by

Big Data has had a fast career as new topic (and occasionally buzzword) in the social sciences during the last years. It describes new opportunities for research emerging from the unprecedented and largely untapped quantity, immediacy, and variety of data … Continue reading →

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Planetizen’s 2014 top 10 websites in planning

Posted on October 1, 2014 by

‘Planetizen is a public-interest information exchange for the urban planning, design, and development community. It is a one-stop source for urban planning news, editorials, book reviews, announcements, jobs, education, and more’ (from the about section of the website). Planetizen, although … Continue reading →

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A journalistic phronetic research: Anna Minton’s Ground Control

Posted on September 9, 2014 by

I often hear academic colleagues that criticize others’ works by labelling them as “good journalistic inquiries”. The underlying idea, here, is that journalistic enquiry is some kind of epistemologically inconsistent version of real scientific enquiry, that is, academic research. And, … Continue reading →

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Summer movies: Planning is…

Posted on August 8, 2014 by

It’s August and it’s getting time for summer break. The blog will slow down a bit, for a couple weeks. For those who are not going to turn off their PCs for some weeks, some short and less short movies … Continue reading →

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Cities in Conflict, 14 months

Posted on May 8, 2014 by

Tom Cowan, editor of Cities in Conflict, has recently published an editor’s pick timeline of the first 14 months of the project. Cities in Conflict, hosted by openSecurity (a section of openDemocracy) is «a public editorial series which sought to … Continue reading →

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