Posts tagged urban studies
The "15 minute city" is toxic here - but in 50 other cities, they're removing "masculine desires" from urban planning
“Housing that is dignified, durable, beautiful and adaptable, and made available for all.” Dan Hill and Mariana Mazzucato dream big
“San Francisco was the left edge of America, a refuge from its conformities, a sanctuary for misfits, a lab for new ideas”. And now, says Rebecca Solnit…
A prefab building wave can help resolve both the climate and housing crises
So what would a "farmscraper" look like - bringing living, working and the production of food to the heart of cities? Studio Precht shows us
Cosmolocalism and CANs - with locals and refugees - at Manchester Urban Diggers (MUD) and their market garden
Cities that use tech to measure their performance, but make that data serve an "emergent civic economy", from Dark Matter Labs
COMMUNITY, TECHNOLOGY, YES WE CAN, SOCIO-POLITICS, REGEN ECONOMIES, NEW ENERGY SOURCES, NEW ECONOMICS, LOCALISM, DEMOCRATIC INNOVATION, 4TH SECTORpat kaneurban studies, urban development, dark matter labs, cities, citizens, smart cities, sustainability
Food Futures in North Lancashire, and Paris’ first zero-carbon neighbourhood - networking and building up regeneration
A "Miyawaki forest" takes two decades to mature at the heart of a city. In Lisbon, it's burgeoning in two years
ENVIRONMENTALISTS, YES WE CAN, PRACTICE, NEW ENERGY SOURCES, LOCALISMpat kaneurban studies, urban development, trees, forests, reforesting, lisbon, Portugal, eco cities, ecocities
The AI Midjourney helps us imagine what mixing a traditional school bus, with a mobile school, would look like
TECHNOLOGY, LEARNING, PERSONAL DEVELOPMENTpat kanedesign, ai, design thinking, social design, artificial intelligence, generative ai, urban development, urban studies, schools, education
The cities that last the longest are the fairest and most participative, says a new archaeological study
15-minute cities: how to separate the reality from the conspiracy theory
Covid heralded a shift of workers and families from big to small cities, seeking more "authentic" lives. How can they be kept there?
Here are some trailblazers doing radical, regenerative place-making work - in housing, supply chains, finance and energy
COMMUNITY, SOCIO-POLITICS, YES WE CAN, ACTION, 4TH SECTOR, REGEN ECONOMIESpat kaneplacemaking, autonomy, urban studies, urban development, suburban, rural
What's "Urbanised Knowledge Syndrome"? When brutal development severs a community's relations to nature, their mental horizons narrow
A day of visionary urbanists and community designers, speaking at Turkey's Harvest Kaplankaya
COMMUNITY, GLOBALISTS, SOCIO-POLITICS, REGEN ECONOMIES, NEW ECONOMICS, LOCALISM, MANIFESTOS, 4TH SECTORpat kaneturkey, urban studies, urban development, architecture, design, ecodesign, biomimicry
When Edinburgh's Canongate community resisted a crass urban development, they deployed a "working-class cosmopolitanism"
“We are not there to do politics or repair the city, but to give value to proximity.” How Paris reconnected with the power of saying “bonjour”
If we want to build truly sustainable cities, we need to think about how women use energy and space
Developing towns in Coalville, building houses in Grimsby, generating solar power in Bristol - these CANs are vibrant and concrete