Sustainable Food in Urban Communities
The report explores ways to distribute, share and procure local food inside the city. There are considered more sustainable and less carbon intensive delivery systems giving efficient opportunities to local … Continue reading
The Radicals’ City (Interview with authors)
Bringing together comparative case studies from Belfast, Beirut, Amsterdam and Berlin, this book examines the role of the urban environment in social polarisation processes. In doing so, it provides a … Continue reading
Urban Poverty in India and Post-MDG Framework
In spite of rapid economic growth over the last decade, India’s urban areas show high levels of inequality, with many social groups being left behind in most of the areas … Continue reading
On Why Struggles over Urban Space Matter: An Interview with David Harvey
Why do urban struggles matter in projects of social change? What is the importance of reclaiming public space in social movements? And at this gloomy global moment of extreme urban … Continue reading
Urban Green Infrastructure
Jonathan Wentworth – Urban green infrastructure is a network of green spaces, water and other natural features within urban areas. A green infrastructure approach uses natural processes to deliver multiple … Continue reading
Violence and displacement in suburban Dhaka
Shahadat Hossain – A combination of violent rural and urban displacement have produced rings of poverty and exploitation on the outskirts of Dhaka, one of the world’s fastest growing cities.Most … Continue reading
Violence and the city in ‘fragile states’
Thomas Goodfellow et al – Actively increasing urban citizens’ capacity to make collective demands in ways that are non-violent – rather than denying them political agency by hoping either that … Continue reading
Militarization of Cities: The Urban Dimension of Contemporary Security
Katarína Svitková – Cities are, by their very nature, prone to manifestations of political violence and vulnerable to disasters of various kinds. As nodes of population, infrastructure, investment, centers of … Continue reading
Urban poverty ‘without an outside’?
Dolf te Lintelo – Contemporary urban geography perspectives are very actively seeking for connections rather than posit dichotomies between the urban and the rural, the urban and the suburban, the … Continue reading
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