Placemaking as a New Environmentalism: Reinvigorating the Environmental Movement in the 21st Century. By Ethan Kent, Vice President What kind of places do we want to create?
What kind of communities do we want to live in? What kind of world do we hope to see in the future? These questions are at the heart of environmentalism today, but are seldom posed. Environmentalism can perhaps best accomplish its goals for humans to impact less by leading the conversation on how we can impact more. Crisis drives people to action but often does not lead us to address underlying challenges and opportunities.
Creating places where people thrive is the only way to create a world that will ultimately accomodate us. Project for Public Spaces is rooted in the founding of the environmental movement and our work has been shaped by calls to action on issues like resource overconsumption, ecological breakdown and climate change. Ecological Transformation Starts Outside Your Door How we connect to and interact with the world outside our home lays the foundation for our Environmentalism. Is it sustainable? The shocking truth about the crackdown on Occupy. US citizens of all political persuasions are still reeling from images of unparallelled police brutality in a coordinated crackdown against peaceful OWS protesters in cities across the nation this past week.
An elderly woman was pepper-sprayed in the face; the scene of unresisting, supine students at UC Davis being pepper-sprayed by phalanxes of riot police went viral online; images proliferated of young women – targeted seemingly for their gender – screaming, dragged by the hair by police in riot gear; and the pictures of a young man, stunned and bleeding profusely from the head, emerged in the record of the middle-of-the-night clearing of Zuccotti Park.
But just when Americans thought we had the picture – was this crazy police and mayoral overkill, on a municipal level, in many different cities? – the picture darkened. To Europeans, the enormity of this breach may not be obvious at first. Why this massive mobilisation against these not-yet-fully-articulated, unarmed, inchoate people? Caught on Camera: 10 Shockingly Violent Police Assaults on Occupy Protesters. November 18, 2011 | Like this article?
Join our email list: Stay up to date with the latest headlines via email. Occupations across the country have born the brunt of some violent police tactics, and in a world where everyone has a camera-phone, a lot of their brutish behavior has been caught in photographs and on video. Police work is difficult and dangerous, and the majority of officers on the street behave like pros.
But being human, cops are also prone to fear and rage like everyone else. Unlike protesters, cops are also armed, and it's difficult to hold them accountable for their actions when they don't behave professionally. Below are some of the most stunning incidents of police officers going wild on Occupy protesters around the country. 1.
This now-iconic image was captured by The Oregonian in Portland on November 17. 2. In this video, a group of college students are huddled on the ground in a defensive position at UC Davis on November 18. Ganadores del Concurso de Tratamiento para el Espacio Público El Rímac. Con el objetivo de encontrar originales soluciones de renovación urbana para el Centro Histórico del Rímac (uno de los distritos más tradicionales de Lima), se organizó el Concurso de Tratamiento para el Espacio Público El Rímac.
Este concurso seleccionó como participantes a los 15 equipos premiados del concurso “5 ideas para el Centro Histórico de Lima” para la intervención 2 espacios públicos (Eje Paseo de Aguas – Alameda de los Descalzos – Alameda de los Bobos y Plazuela de Presa y Entorno), los cuales eventualmente se llevarán a cabo. A continuación las propuestas ganadoras. Primer Puesto Eje Paseo de Aguas – Alameda de los Descalzos – Alameda de los Bobos Equipo ganador: Rafael Antonio Ríos Mazuelos, Elizabeth Añanos Vega, Moris Fleischman Nessim, Héctor Loli Rizo Patrón El distrito del Rímac, es uno de los 43 distritos de la Provincia de Lima, ubicado en el Departamento de Lima.
Primer Premio Plaza Protocolar. Plaza Comunitaria.