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– Elizabeth A. Walsh"/>
(R)evolutionary powers for regenerative economies: Learning from natural law and leaders in Jackson, Mississippi
– Elizabeth A. Walsh
What can we learn about liberty, natural law, and human nature from American revolutionaries before and after the 18th century to meet the challenges of the 21st century?
– Siân Moxon"/>
Beauty and the beast: Confronting contrasting perceptions of nature through design
– Siân Moxon
Nature elicits potent, contrasting emotions in us, from love and awe to fear and loss of control. As we become increasingly urbanised, we are distancing ourselves from wildness…
– Maxime Le Calvé and Olivier Gaudin"/>
Both feet in murky waters: Fieldnotes from the Floating University in Berlin
– Maxime Le Calvé and Olivier Gaudin
The proposal is to connect a neighbourhood, the city’s infrastructure and a hybrid ecosystem through the exploration of a specific place.
reviewed by Maria Tzika"/>
Grassroots Rising by Ronnie Cummins
reviewed by Maria Tzika
Grassroots Rising by Ronnie Cummins is a guide for practical solutions for climate change reversal and building grassroots movements. In his own wo…
– Xenia Kokoula, TU Berlin"/>
City: From home of microbes to coronavirus hotspot
– Xenia Kokoula, TU Berlin
Street, sidewalk, façade: What makes this picture instantly recognizable as a late 19th century urban setting is not its architecture but rather the crowds …
– Paul Bostanjoglo, TU Berlin"/>
Corona and its spatial metaphors
– Paul Bostanjoglo, TU Berlin
COVID-19 spreads best in enclosed and crowded rooms; according to this many potentially dangerous spaces have been detected. In case of outbreaks …
– Yuanzhihong Liu, TU Berlin"/>
Rethinking urban food systems in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic
– Yuanzhihong Liu, TU Berlin
During the COVID-19 pandemic we have seen several outbreaks related to the urban food supply system. The first known outbreak took place in a big f…
– Chiara Galimberti, TU Berlin"/>
Viruses, particles, and other matters in metropolitan Milan
– Chiara Galimberti, TU Berlin
During the onset of the Coronavirus pandemic the Metropolitan City of Milan was Italy’s most affected urban area. While people had to wear a mask …
– Johanna Schacht and Philine von Zimmermann, TU Berlin"/>
Multi-species coexistence, COVID-19 & urban design
– Johanna Schacht and Philine von Zimmermann, TU Berlin
It remains unknown what species caused the spread of COVID-19, and where exactly it was transmitted from non-humans to humans in Wuhan, China, which …
with David Calas"/>
Learning from Quarantine
with David Calas
One story per day, many questions for the days to come. For 40 days, from March 19th to April 27th 2020, David Calas, Sven Wuttej and Clemens Horvath …
– from Estefanía Piñeiros, Edinburgh, 28.08.2020"/>
Lockdown Landscape
– from Estefanía Piñeiros, Edinburgh, 28.08.2020
The window of one hour of exercise a day during lockdown allowed me to discover many interesting places in the vicinity of my home. Strolling aroun…
with Hanna Wheatley"/>
The New Economics Foundation on tackling the housing crisis
with Hanna Wheatley
Treating the housing crisis as an issue of supply only, as most mainstream and free-market economists tend to do, ignores the changing role of housing and land in the UK.
with Andre Sacharow"/>
The community land trust, Stadtbodenstiftung, in Berlin on turning land into commons
with Andre Sacharow
By getting hold of the land through the CLT model, city dwellers can make sure that local initiatives do not get gentrified out due to spiking rental costs.
– Seraphine Appel"/>
Unceded territory and the lawspace of the settler colonial state
– Seraphine Appel
The iconic fountain at the entrance to the parliament building in Victoria, British Columbia (BC), Canada bleeds red. Since January 2020, an Indige…
– Mira Idris and Razan Bleidi"/>
On spatial looseness and temporary use: Exploring Al-Hisba market
– Mira Idris and Razan Bleidi
In its central location at the intersection of the Palestinian cities of Ramallah and Al-Bireh, the popular market of Al-Hisba represents…
– Konstantinos Manolidis"/>
Defaced land: Reading the marks of a social obsession
– Konstantinos Manolidis
Street networks commonly serve some form of human habitation. That’s why the image of a dense pattern of driveways leading to vacant plots in a nat…
– Guillaume Vanneste and Nicolas Willemet"/>
Four pocket parks: Towards landed commons
– Guillaume Vanneste and Nicolas Willemet
The project of four pocket parks is being carried out in the framework of the sustainable neighbourhood contracts “contrat de quartier durable” …
– Taylor Kathryn Miller"/>
Al-Manshiyya: Bordering and spatializations of difference on the vanishing Palestinian coastline
– Taylor Kathryn Miller
Walking north along the Homat HaYam Promenade in Jaffa, the entire Tel Aviv skyline comes into view with Mediterranean waves crashing against the o…
– Sophie C. R. Jerram"/>
Value in the empty city: Findings from New Zealand’s Urban Dream Brokerage
– Sophie C. R. Jerram
The Urban Dream Brokerage (UBD) ran as a platform in New Zealand, liaising between creative producers and private property owners, to place community and arts projects in vacant city sites.
– Maria Vidali "/>
Our land
– Maria Vidali
This article focuses on a small community in the village of Kampos, on the Greek island of Tinos in Greece. In studying the history of the island o…