Can tactical urbanism and open squares, like Milan's vibrant NoLo pop-ups, quickly turn car-choked streets into lively, equitable public spaces to solve today's urban issues? The COVID-19 pandemic exposed and intensified underlying spatial inequalities in metropolitan areas. Cities have become defined by fragmented, neglected public spaces, uneven ...
There is a change that is happening within the planning discipline. Issues of public and private health, natural disasters, international conflicts, the rise of populism and illiberalism but also personal well-being, autonomy, and critique towards positions of power are evolving around the built environment. The fundamentally social and environment...
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Guest author: Anke Brons (Aeres University of Applied Sciences, Almere and Wageningen University) Note: This post was initially published on the blog of the The...
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Guest author: Simin Davoudi, Professor of Environmental Policy and Planning, Director of GURU, Newcastle University. On the 20th of April 2018, the City and th...
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Read time: 3 minutes Author: Konstantina Vidou (UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network – Youth) One could argue that the relationship between placemaking ...
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10 min read Guest author: Carlos Ferrufino (Universidad Centroamericana - UCA) Editors' note: This post is a short paper that was submitted to the URNet confere...
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3 min read Guest author: Pinar Dörder (Darmstadt University, chair of the YA Coordination Team) Dear friends, Here is Pinar Dörder, I am an architect and urban ...
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6 min read. Guest author: Mennatullah Hendawy (Leibniz Institute for Research on Society and Space, and First Degree Citizens) Because it could be a simple math...
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7 min read The time has come to pass on the leadership and management of one of the best spatial planning blogs out there. You will likely have read it in the l...
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Reading time: 4 minutes 2020 broke a new record in terms of the number of visitors on the blog of the AESOP Young Academics network since its inception in 2014...
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Reading time: 6 minutes In 1964, in times of emerging social change across the USA, Bob Dylan sung prophetically that "the times they are a'changing" whether we...
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4 min read Guest author: Olga Chepelianskaia (UNICITI) Editor's note: This piece is the first in a series of three posts entitled 'Mapping - a tool for urban re...
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3 min read Guest author: Olga Chepelianskaia (UNICITI) Editor's note: This post reviews the importance of mapping local environmental resources using diverse da...
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8 min read Guest authors: Urban Transitions Hub (UTH) (Institute of Social Sciences, University of Lisbon) Editor's note: This post is an engaging contribution ...
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4 minute read Guest author: Caitlin Hafferty (Countryside and Community Research Institute, University of Gloucestershire, UK) Note: this post was initially pub...
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5 minute read Guest author: Caitlin Hafferty (@CaitlinHafferty), PhD researcher at the Countryside and Community Research Institute, University of Gloucestershi...
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Reading time: 3 minutes Goodbye 2020, welcome 2021 Without doubt, 2020 was a challenging year for all of us. Equally, the challenges came with a silver lining. ...
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2 minutes read Launching the EU Climate Pact On December 16th, the EU will officially launch its Climate Pact. Here is the official blurb on the EU Commission's...
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On behalf of the YA coordination team and the small but growing team of YA blog editors, I would personally like to invite you to consider a small but key move ...
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5 minutes read This is a short contribution by the Local Organizing Committee (LOC), from POLIS University, Tirana, unfolding the inspirations and underlying ev...
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