image from Lapham’s Quarterly website In an excellent essay Is The Myth of City Life More Significant than the Real City Itself? the editor of Lapham’s Quarterly, Lewis H. Lapham, argues that the illusion of the city maybe as real as the physical city, he explains that as playgrounds for the human imagination cities are [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]