The critical global and economic climate has pushed cities to the fore of policy discussion worldwide, forcing them to review their strategies and adopt new approaches to planning and development for sustainable growth. For cities to engage in this process successfully, increased inter-change and sensitivity between all of the parties involved in the city-making profession [...]

Un rapporto che illustra i risultati di uno studio sul campo della durata di un mese sull’apprendimento da parte della città di Torino

‘Torino Citta che Impara’ è la versione in Italiano della relazione ‘Torino as a Learning City‘ di Tim Campbell, Senior Fellow, Comparative Domestic Policy Program. Il Politiche Interne Comparate
(CDP – Comparative Domestic Policy) [...]

Marcia Caines

artwork Mario Suarez, image Cluster
Today cities are home to over half of the world’s population, and according to The United Nations Habitat report, this figure is set to reach 75% by 2050. The success or failure, growth or decline, of cities directly contributes to the overall condition of the planet and the wellbeing of [...]

…and disrupts its grid¹
Solomon Benjamin
‘Developmentalism’ is now a morbid zeal, mobilized to survey, to GIS, to digitize, to research, and colonize ‘Third World Cities.’ And in this zeal, lies the panoptic desire to turn the steel frame of the Nation State into The Grid and the Rule of Law, the Master Plan that poses the [...]

British politician Ed Miliband talks to Environmental Artist Angela Palmer at her current and powerful exhibition ‘Ghost Forests’ in Trafalgar Square, London. The artist explains how by bringing a rain forest to Trafalgar Square, epicentre of modern industrialization, she seeks to enhance awareness of the mass deforestation currently underway in other parts of the world [...]