Ethel Baraona of dpr-barcelona interviews New York based Architect and Urban Designer Petra Kempf, author of the publication ‘You are the city‘; a unique ‘kit’ of drawings and text which readers can mix, organize and overlay as they please, creating their own city scenarios. The publication aims, through play and interaction, to provide the individual [...]

A recent report published by CABE, the UK government’s advisor on architecture, urban design and public space, Community Green: using local spaces to tackle inequality and improve health reveals how improving urban green spaces represents an important and cost-effective opportunity for people to transform their local neighbourhoods and can significantly contribute to better health (physical [...]

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 learning cities. [...]

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 [...]

Jane Jacobs: Neighbourhoods in Action is a video produced by Active Living Network (a project of The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation) featuring an interview with the American urban visionary Jane Jacobs

(via Jane’s Walk Pheonix the Jane’s Walks blogspot).
Jane’s Walk is a grassroots initiative that seeks to put people and communities at the heart of [...]