‘Bravi! La Città Siamo Noi’ (Good Card: Citizens Shaping the City) is a project conceived by Marcia Caines and Gricelys Rosario, and submitted by the Association Cluster, in response to the 1st call for ideas for a Social Strategic Plan of the City of Turin ‘Da Idea Nasce Cosa‘ launched by Torino Internazionale in December [...]

Comparing New Knowledge and Informal Networks in Four Cities Informal networks in Four cities In two previous posts Lessons in Learning for the Future Prosperity of Cities and Torino Città che Impara (Italian only) we wrote about the work developed by Tim Campbell, Chairman of the Urban Age Institute, with the German Marshall Fund on [...]

CABE, UK government’s advisor on architecture, urban design and public space, has recently released a report entitled ‘Ordinary Places’, which is intended as a starting point for debate about creating the culture and conditions to help ordinary places to become valued and valuable. Ordinary places – the residential areas around big city centres, smaller post-industrial [...]

images via D-Crit conference Flickr The first Design Criticism MFA conference “Crossing the Line: The 2010 D-Crit Conference” took place in New York on April 30 2010, graduating its first class of students, the event was moderated by author and radio host Kurt Andersen and featured keynotes Peter Hall and John Thackara other speakers included [...]

The Astoria Scum River Bridge created by urban artists Jason Eppink and Posterchild is an exemplary unauthorized city intervention. The problem, Astoria Scum River, was a pool of filthy stagnant water, caused by a leaky pipe, which had been submerging a busy city pavement for over twenty years causing a hazard to pedestrians. Jason Eppink [...]