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Tag Archives: planning
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 places we live in? This post argues that engaging the public in place-making should at least be about mutual learning, … Continue reading
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 rest. ‘Urban metabolism’ is rather the newest amongst them. In this blog, I aim to explore which of the three … Continue reading
Posted in Beyond planning, Planning, city, and society, Resources, Uncategorized
Tagged planning, sustainability
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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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“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 Scottish National Party represents the city at all tiers of governance and the city returned the highest percentage of voters … Continue reading
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 years. It describes new opportunities for research emerging from the unprecedented and largely untapped quantity, immediacy, and variety of data … Continue reading
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 urban planning news, editorials, book reviews, announcements, jobs, education, and more’ (from the about section of the website). Planetizen, although … Continue reading
Posted in Planning, city, and society, Resources
Tagged Citiscope, design, Development, digital resources, Planetizen, planning, top 10, websites
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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, is that journalistic enquiry is some kind of epistemologically inconsistent version of real scientific enquiry, that is, academic research. And, … Continue reading
Posted in Books
Tagged Anna Minton, British cities, Ground Control, journalistic enquiry, phronetic research, planning, research, security, UK, urban fear
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Summer movies: Planning is…
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
Posted in Beyond planning
Tagged Architettura in città, Festival, Italy, movie, planning, planning is, urbanism
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Cities in Conflict, 14 months
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
Posted in Beyond planning, Conflict
Tagged AESOP, cities in conflict, conflict, openDemocracy, openSecurity, planning, urbanisation
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