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Le Programme. European Spatial Planning Perspective - Hi, I'm Alexandru F. Ghiță and this is my. Urban Age Institute. Social inclusion. How can we open up the circle of decision-makers to include regular citizens?

How can governments better respond to citizen’s concerns? How can people and decision-makers cooperate for a better future in the coming decade? These were just some of the pointed questions raised by young Georgians during Post-2015 national consultations held in Georgia last year…. Read more » In Azerbaijan, especially in rural areas, there exists a very powerful term for women who don’t follow the rules: ‘pis giz’ – or bad girl. Social innovation workshops are all about bringing together designers and software developers with citizen experts for realistic and need-driven solutions to the social problems they face.

University of Manchester. SPLINTERS & OFFCUTS. One text surrounds another. U T A R A. Matahari Terbit, Argo Parahyangan Florence Nightingale, OM, RRC (/ˈflɒrəns ˈnaɪtɨŋɡeɪl/; 12 May 1820 – 13 August 1910) was a celebrated English social reformer and statistician, and the founder of modern nursing.

She came to prominence while serving as a nurse during the Crimean War, where she tended to wounded soldiers. About. EngagingCities. Urban Resilience in Bangkok. Bangkok is one of many appropriate locations in the world to talk about urban resilience.

It has gone through a series of environmental, economic, and political shocks: the mega-flood two years ago, the financial crises in the late 1990s, a series of coup d’états and political conflicts, to name but a few. One text surrounds another. The postwar urban landscape has not become less militarized than the one during the WWII.

Towards an inclusive city: Opening the public space for social engagement. By Andrea Cubides.

There is a deep need to focus on more inclusive ways of shaping cities since more than half of the world´s population now live in them. All sorts of difficulties are challenging the way we live and survive in the city, moreover for the urban poor who, as only choice, have to agglomerate in inadequate and even dangerous parts of the urban peripheries. Consequently, agglomeration makes difficult the provision of services. Thus, limiting the access to education, sanitation and other networks of opportunities and producing intolerance to differences. Deepening social and economic inequality. Welcome [Urban Habitat] A World Map of Urban Habitat This website offers a comprehensive overview of the realities of habitat across the world.

It can be browsed in different ways according to your primary interests: By choosing a country (or countries), organized by continent and sub-continent, that interests you: you will find simple and accessible information on the housing situation in specific countries, problems and major demands, and a list of key civil society actors. Share your best aerial pictures viewed from a drone.

Planning: technology improves engagement. + Social networking technologies can be harnessed to enable people to participate in local planning activities, without having to make time to attend planning meetings.

Engaging with stakeholders and the community is essential for spatial planning on any scale. It’s a process we can improve by using technology to gather and map people’s feedback. I’ve spent much of my working life talking to people about built environment projects. Five Fantastic Ideas for Public Furniture in Cities. This post is also available in: Chinese (Traditional), Spanish, Italian, Farsi, Portuguese, German In the search for public furniture there is great deal to be considered; cities need to consider the socio-economic history of an area as well as the surrounding community’s hopes for the area’s future.

The ability of great public furniture to inspire innovation and pride can uplift a community and revitalise public spaces. A spirit undeniably embodies in these five fantastic ideas for public furniture. 1. New York City New York City is a metropolis that famously produces iconic symbols of the modern urban lifestyle. 2. Urban Solutions. The City in the Crosshairs: A Conversation with Stephen Graham (Pt. 1) [Bryan Finoki] To begin, I am wondering how you conceptualize the Global City and its military role in expanding global capital.

I am also interested in the opposite notion, of how cities can be inherently resistant to imperialism rather than acting as mere pistons for the expansion of capitalist development. [Stephen Graham] Global cities, as the key nodes in the transnational architectures of neoliberal capitalism, are vitally important militarily. They organize the financialization and production of space (London, for example, basically controls the financial architectures of large swathes of Africa and the Middle East). They orchestrate the extending dominance of neoliberalism.

They serve as key hubs in the lacing of the world through transnational control, transport and logistics infrastructures. This Big City - ideas for sustainable cities. Demain La Ville - Bouygues Immobilier. The Interventionist's Toolkit, Part 1. Essay: Mimi Zeiger Park(ing) Day, San Francisco.

[photo courtesy of SPUR] It’s been two and a half years since the financial crisis crippled the global economy. Esprit de babel. AFRICAN URBANISM. ArchTalks - Home. Esprit de babel. AtNight. El projecte / The project atNight és un projecte de recerca que parteix de la constatació de l'existència del concepte de paisatge nocturn i és, precisament des d'una definició àmplia del terme paisatge, que la investigació vol establir ponts entre els coneixements de diverses disciplines humanístiques i tècniques. La investigació afronta la descripció del paisatge com a relació sensible i cognitiva entre les persones i el seu entorn i, per consegüent, vol aprofundir en el procés d'identificació de la ciutadania amb el seu territori.

Dérive. About. MANU FERNÁNDEZUrban policies analysis / Strategic urban thinker and designer of innovative urban actions Interested in working on projects related to urban economy, local sustainability, urban innovation processes and actions, digital cities and civic engagement in public space. My research and consulting activity has been focused on three main fields:• Adaptive urbanism: I have been concerned of how economic crisis is impacting cities, basically in the Spanish context (but using international cases as a reference) and I am advocating for an adaptive urbanism. This is based on the idea that we suffer three main problems we have to face and work on together: economic restrictions (which means the age of big urban interventions is over), climate change (which means we need to adapt built environment) and a social change that is transforming society with new paradigms of learning, governance, companies,.. Digital urban.

Présentation. La recherche urbaine à Sciences Po Le programme de recherche Cities are back in town produit des travaux systématiques et approfondis sur les processus d’urbanisation (économiques, politiques, sociaux, culturels) de manière systématique et comparée entre des villes et des régions urbaines structurée à la fois par des trajectoires historiques, des groupes sociaux et ethniques, des institutions et des conflits, ainsi que par des flux, des mobilités, et des circulations à différentes échelles. Ce programme se donne pour objet de lancer de nouvelles perspectives de recherches, de réaliser des travaux systématiques et approfondis sur la région parisienne et les villes françaises, les villes européennes (Milan, Barcelone, Amsterdam, Manchester et varsovie), et récemment, l’ouverture d’un programme de comparaison des grandes métropoles (Chicago, Los Angeles, Dehli, Mexico, Sao Paolo et Istanbul).

Le blog de Jean-Pierre Charbonneau. Citymine(d) : links. Vus de l'atelier de scénographie de l'ESAD de Strasbourg. Viewing the Emergent City and Its People. URBACT The blog. Les nouvelles technologies au service du dialogue et de la concertation sociale. Public Home - Private City. Dutch graphic artist Urlie Verduyn Lunel has done a wonderful project about the vanishing distinctions between private and public life. Public Space in Cairo: a Fragmented Archipelago. Public Space in Cairo: a Fragmented Archipelago Jump to thecomments ↓ Author Mohamed El-shahed SummaryUbiquitous metal barriers are fragmenting Cairo's public space. Themes Space Battle Content Case StudyFA Perspectives. Places: Design Observer. Paperolettes. H U M M U S - East Mediterranean City Belt - 2050. Anthropologie urbaine.

A la Une Aux marges de la ville et de l’état. Camps palestiniens au Liban et favelas cariocas Amanda S. A. Dias Résumé L’émergence et le maintien des espaces en marge constituent un phénomène global qui appelle un travail d’anthropologie comparée. Géographie de la ville en guerre - BLOG. Laboratoire Urbanisme Insurrectionnel. Urban Observatory. Transit City. We are a sustainability innovation lab specialised in strategic design, scenario building, co-design with users and community centred approaches. Dpublog. Novo Ideo. Polis. … on socio-spatial relations in the eastern mediterranean. Leblogdelaville. Blog – Art in Odd Places. By Matthew Morowitz Exhibition view of Carmel Ni’s “Folded Relativity,” 2013. Photo courtesy of Kaitlyn A. Kramer. In the late hours of January 24th, 2014, I was heading back to my friend’s place in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, when on the way he became interested in music and activity that he had noticed coming out of what looked like an abandoned corner store on Nassau Street.

After inquiring what was going on, my friend and I stepped inside what we were told to be an art show.