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Tag Archives: urban resilience
Cognitive mapping to understand neighbourhoods – Kenya
3 min read Editor’s note: This post is the concluding post in a series of entitled ‘Mapping – a tool to build urban resilience’ (see post 1 about community-led heritage mapping, and post 2 about environmental resources mapping for sustainable … Continue reading
Cartoons for systemic change & recovery
2 min read We normally change only if we have to. A popular idiom encapsulates this: “Necessity is the mother of invention”. If we don’t acutely perceive the need to change, we might just settle for the status quo, and … Continue reading
Posted in Beyond planning, Climate change, Disaster management, Sustainability and resilience, Uncategorized
Tagged cartoonathon, cartoons, climate adaptation, Climate change, Community engagement, creativity, digital resources, digital technology, entrepreneurship, hackathons, innovation, institutional capacity, methodology, newnormal, recovery, serious games, spatial planning, systemic change, systems theory, urban planning, urban resilience
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Placemaking and Climate Resilience
Posted in Climate change
Tagged Climate change, climate resilience, Placemaking, urban resilience, webinar
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COVID-19 and climate resilience: Effective disaster prevention and management practices
Read time: 7 minutes Guest author: Olga Chepelianskaia (UNICITI) Editor’s note: This post shares the findings of two related articles that link the current crisis with climate resilience. These investigate: 1) human encroachment into natural ecosystems; and 2) resilience planning in … Continue reading
Posted in Climate change, Development, Disaster management, Sustainability and resilience, Uncategorized
Tagged adaptation, blue green infrastructure, Climate change, deforestation, disaster, disaster planning, ecosystem services, emergency planning, green infrastructure, mitigation, preparedness, urban planning, urban resilience, urban sustainability
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Placemaking: toolkits & books
Read time: 3 minutes This post is a companion to a previous post: Placemaking: trends & people. This post focuses on toolkits, methods, books and handbooks for effective placemaking in a range of contexts, from healthy streets and neighbourhood planning … Continue reading
Posted in Beyond planning, Climate change, Community engagement, Development, Disaster management, Nature, Planning, city, and society, Resources, Sustainability and resilience, Uncategorized
Tagged cities for people, cluster approach, disaster, Infrastructure, New Urbanism, open source, Participatory 3D modelling, participatory methods, place standard tool, place-making, Placemaking, regeneration, Resilience, resilient cities, urban regeneration, urban resilience, urban STEP
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YA blog outlook: 2014-2020 & beyond
Read time: 5 minutes This post gives an overview of the growing activity on the blog since its launch in 2014. Based on the results of a short survey, the post also provides an outlook for 2020 and beyond. The … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, research quality and assessment, Beyond planning, Uncategorized
Tagged academe, academia, academic work, AESOP, AESOP YA, Climate change, economic planning, environmental planning, mapping, Planning Theory and Practice, reflective practice, smart cities, smart city, spatial planning, territorial planning, town planning, urban planning, urban resilience
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Highlights from 2018
Read time: 4-5 minutes 2018 was the year which generated the most traffic on the blog: 13,000 views and 9,300 visitors for 29 published posts. The posts covered such diverse themes as territorial governance, active mobility, sustainable food systems, development, … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, research quality and assessment, Beyond planning, Community engagement, Conferences, Dissemination, outreach, communication, Nature, Planning, city, and society, Public transport, Sustainability and resilience, Sustainable consumption, Technology, Territory, landscape, land, Uncategorized
Tagged AESOP, AESOP YA, affordable housing, built environment, cycling, Development, education, housing policy, impact assessment, Infrastructure, migrants, planning graduates, planning policy, public health, public participation, resilient cities, slow academia, sustainable food, Technology, territorial planning, Urban Heat Island, urban planning, urban resilience, urban sanitation
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Framing the right research questions in dealing with Urban Resilience: introducing Urban Resilience Research Network (URNet)
One of the main challenges in dealing with research is indeed framing the right questions. Einstein’s quote “if I had one hour to solve a problem, I’d spend 55 minutes defining the problem and 5 minutes thinking about the solution” … Continue reading
