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Communities
22 posts
Community-related materials.
How COVID-19 Is Shaping Our Cities And Communities
The emergence of COVID-19 in early 2020 turned our world upside down, forcing the global population indoors and…
Who Belongs In A City?
Underneath every shiny new megacity, there’s often a story of communities displaced. In this moving, poetic talk, OluTimehin…
Planning Our Connection To The Natural Landscape
Have we become too detached from our landscapes and our sense of place within the natural world? Is…
Humanitarian Aid System Is A Continuation Of The Colonial Project
To fix the flawed humanitarian system, practitioners need to collaborate with affected populations as equal partners. The global…
When Nationalism No Longer Works, Maybe It Is Time For Civicism
“I love New York” is perhaps the most successful slogan in modern history. Cities around the world are…
How The World’s First Cities Got Started
A 12,000-year-old “Stonehenge on steroids” transformed nomadic humans into members of complex societies. When the late German archaeologist…
The Top 10 Craziest Party Hotspots In The World
Some people love to party, at home or on vacation, and the world has some fantastic party destinations…
Happy, Healthy, And Simple Neighbourhoods Can Be Yours
Modern life is proving more complex, tiresome and heavy-going than we imagined. We live under constant pressure: our…
Raising The Bar For Smart Cities In Singapore
Government-deployed sensors will collect and coordinate an unprecedented amount of data on daily life in the city. This…
Our World Is Run By Global Corporations & Megacities, Not Countries
As cities and companies gain in influence and the power of nation-states decreases, the world is undergoing a…
Give London’s Citizen The Freedom To Live Well
A city will struggle if it can no longer house the people who teach, clean, nurse, cook, police,…
The Truth Behind The Gender Wage Gap In The U.S.
“The gender wage gap is complicated. Most people have heard that women make, on average, 77¢ for every…
Why Doesn’t New Orleans Look More Like Amsterdam?
Meet David Waggonner: the urban and environmental architect who wants New Orleans to come to terms with the…
How Transportation Nourishes And Shapes Urban Communities
It is estimated that by 2050, two-thirds of the world’s population will live in cities. Denser cities and…
Fun Friday : Three Cities. Public Spaces. Street Pianos.
When walking in downtown Hangzhou, China, one can safely expect to see a healthy variety of pedestrians, traffic,…
How Car-Centric Cities Like Phoenix Learned To Love Light Rail
While other cities have struggled to finance their existing transit, Sun Belt cities like Phoenix have embraced light…
What Urban Design Can Actually Do To Address Police Violence
Leaders in the field discuss what design can—and can’t—accomplish in the service of communities like Baltimore and Ferguson.…
Our Elders Who Built Our Great Cities Deserve Better
Too many urban spaces are daunting to older people. But Lyon and Manchester show that they needn’t be.…
Model Village Lessons
Visiting a new settlement planned on utopian principles during my travels through France this summer set me…
Smaller Cities Unite
What does Copenhagen have in common with Providence, Rhode Island? Both are small cities known globally for…
Communities Of The Future Will Be Organised on Transportation
The era of transit-oriented development and “networked livable communities” has arrived. The Great Recession has fundamentally changed the…
When It Comes to City Happiness, People Are Key
The notion that condensed living spaces always heighten misery is flawed; interaction keeps us sharp and more content.…