Home The Nature of Cities

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A meditation on race and ecology on the occasion of the death of U.S. Representative John Lewis.Representative John R. Lewis (1940-2020) was a hero of the civil rights movement in the United States. He was one of the six leaders of the famous 1963 March On Washington, a leader of the Freedom Rides and other key protests, as well as... Stay home! This is the imperative that has echoed across the planet in the last months. Everyone is at, and a, risk to themselves and others. And so we did. We mostly stayed at home. After a few days, we began to notice that our house, our cities, and our planet, is kind of a mess. Realizing how dirty, unorganized,... Want to explorediverse and connecting threads in urban ecological arts? In the LEAF, three FRIEC Urban Arts Collective members share something from their ideas and work for 10 minutes each, followed by Q A. Presenters:Olive Bieringa, OsloMatthew Jensen, New YorkSt phane Verlet-Bott ro, Paris 21 October, 11am EDT Olive Bieringa, Oslo: Resisting Extinction is a performance work that will offer embodied practices for grieving... Urban green spaces have long been a refuge for city dwellers, especially in times of crisis, but how has the COVID-19 pandemic affected the use and importance of urban green and open spaces? Are they perceived or used differently during this time? Who has access historically, but also during COVID-19? And can current and future social distancing and budgetary policies... En espa ol. In December 2019, the city of Wuhan, China, reported the first case of Coronavirus. Since then, the virus has spread rapidly, reaching more than 31,300,000 cases worldwide (as of September 2020, according to John Hopkins University). Globally and regionally, a series of measures have been taken to slow down the spread of the virus, affecting millions of people... SUMMER We started to settle into our new normal , with the pace of our journal entries significantly slowing down. Social distancing didn t feel as novel any more, we weren t noticing the shifts and changes as much. Or perhaps we were worn down with mental fatigue and journaling didn t feel therapeutic, it felt frankly depressing. Even the daily, spontaneous 7pm cheer... Since 1912 in Paris, the river Bi vre, once the city s second-largest river, has disappeared from our landscape. It used to cross the whole left bank from south to north, flowing through the 13th and 5th arrondissements before reaching the Seine between Le Jardin des Plantes , our historical botanical garden, and the Austerlitz train station. Today, this 36 km long river... 2013 is the 40th anniversary of two important moments in wildlife conservation history. In 1973, Congress enacted and President Nixon sign into law the Endangered Species Act. The ESA has become the U.S.A. s most important wildlife... On 14 June 2018, Isabelle Anguelovski participated in the panelDesigning, Planning and Paying forResilienceat Rice University Kinder Institute for Urban Research, where she and other leading expertsdiscussedflood mitigation strategies such as low impact design, green infrastructure and urban-scale greenspace preservation, and how they interact with a community s broader planning efforts. These are Isabelle s insights from the panel. What kind of... New town development or new cities, being rapidly built across much of Asia, Africa, and the Middle East, may be founded on the principles of green cities and are yet found lacking in their attention to the environment. Numerous articles on the smart cities mission in India also note the techno-managerial approach to ecological elements of urban design, whereby monitoring... At a recent film screening of our new documentary film Ocean Cities, about connecting cities and marine environments, the panel discussion and questions that followed demonstrated clearly the value of these kinds of films. Some of the comments reflected a sense of being inspired by what other cities were doing ( that s a great idea, we can do that here also ),...

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