Sustainability and urban conflict
The re-design and transformation of cities is critical in meeting the environmental challenge. But urban transformation is very often accompanied by social conflict. What can architects do about that?
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15 råd til levende bycentre
Detailhandelen er vigtig for byen, og mange gamle bycentre kæmper en desperat kamp med shoppingcentre i byernes udkant. Under forudsætning af at der faktisk findes en fælles målsætning om at have aktive, befolkede og bæredygtige bycentre blandt befolkningen, de kommercielle aktører indenfor ejendoms- og detailhandelsbranchen, samt de offentlige myndigheder og politikerne, er det muligt, at pege på ting der faktisk kan gøres.
MyBarents: Participatory Mapping in the Future North
Using social locative media, people’s engagement with their local urban environment are investigated in neighbouring communities in an Arctic transnational area (Vardø and Kirkenes, Norway, and Nikel, Russia).
Reactively yours
We are not all made the way we’d like to be. I’m a hybrid now through and through. The long and strong telomeres of my species, oh so superior to other whales. No one ever talks about us in that way. We are just the small cousins, the less spectacular blowers of pressured air, but nonetheless quite unique with out spiral tusks.
Dreamtime interrupted
It will soon be spring up here and I see there is yet another scientific report saying the ice is thinning, that since the 1970s this has been a measured pattern and that in the not so distant future the northern passages will be free of ice for navigation in the summer. Cimate change. Changing climates if you ask me! Perhaps I will finally take a trip over to my Canadian relatives. All these changes disturb me though. I nodded off yesterday having read this news and had a strange dream.