Linking Resilience and Sustainability in City Planning
Timon McPhearson – Cities around the world are making plans, developing agendas, and articulating goals for urban resilience, but is urban resilience really possible? Resilience to what, for what, and … Continue reading
Another underestimate of urban poverty
David Satterthwaite – Yet another global study has understated the scale and depth of urban poverty, by failing to appreciate the differences between rural and urban contexts. The Global Multidimensional … Continue reading
Climate Change: Implications for Cities
The Fifth Assessment Report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is the most up-to-date, comprehensive and relevant analysis of our changing climate. Urban centres account for more than half … Continue reading
Will the World’s Emerging Megacities Turn the Corner? For Most of Them, Probably Not
People assume that the world’s emerging megacities will ultimately be successful, maybe even very successful. Places like São Paulo and Istanbul are held up as global cities in the making. Even … Continue reading
The Sum Of All-isms: An unsolicited manifesto for the New Cities Foundation
Cities flourish, because of us and often despite us. Certain cities now surpass entire nations, both in terms of population and the size of their economy: there are more inhabitants … Continue reading
The Potential and Limits of the ‘Resilience Agenda’ in Peri-urban Contexts
Béné et al – Today, it is acknowledged that peri-urban space plays a critical and increasing role in relation to urban expansion. Yet this role is still poorly understood and … Continue reading
Contesting speculative urbanisation and strategising discontents
Hyun Bang Shin – I have argued in this essay that China’s speculative urbanisation is both an ideological and a political project that disrupts and destroys the lives of the … Continue reading
Mobility in Cities is About Space – Proven Powerfully in Pictures
Regardless of the energy source for cars in your community, the biggest mobility challenge in cities is about the massive amount of space that cars demand. Space to drive in, … Continue reading
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