“The future of mobility depends on the shape our world will take. World economy, politics, society. It is exceptionally difficult to foresee all these things. E...
Slightly more than a month ago, on 15 September 2014, over 100 people were evacuated from 50 Vulturilor Street, not too far away from central Bucharest. Taken o...
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Dear urbanists, urban planners, traffic planners, architects and others,Our work is done.Recently Google Maps does not show the same things to everyone. The unc...
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I recently stumbled upon a talk given by Chilean architect Alejandro Aravena at TED Global 2014. Having to come up with solutions for building adequate homes fo...
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Big Data has had a fast career as new topic (and occasionally buzzword) in the social sciences during the last years. It describes new opportunities for researc...
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In a previous post, I was writing about participatory practices in urban development, particularly from the point of view of neighbourhood planning. A few days ...
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January has been a bit of a lazy month for the YA blog. After a great 2014, the team was in the need of some time before re-starting for an even better 2015. In...
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I've been literally astonished by the recent shift in the quality of Vice News. Yes, news.Vice.com and the national editions I read in Italy and Portugal. Go di...
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Inner London has been contradicting the successful economic trajectory of the global capital for more than thirty years. Planners have been part of the struggle...
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While local policies to mitigate the displacement caused by gentrification are critical-- perhaps now more than at any time in the last half century--local gove...
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"The strong mayor form … is in some ways a miniature presidency", Clarence N. StoneSome recent articles in the press made me think of the need to more “healthy”...
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Do you know Planka?Planka is a Stockholm based organisation of public transport fare dodgers. If you happen to swipe your ticket and feel somebody sliding up be...
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I was sincerely shocked by this news. You may be thinking of me as a naive fellow, yet I was not ready at all. Well I did already know that this kind of “polici...
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In the wake of the Great Recession and mortgage foreclosure crisis, the rate of home ownership has declined and renting is on the rise, particularly among those...
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Accessibility is an essential feature of a well-functioning city or urban region. In particular, the concept of accessibility provides a framework for understan...
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New computing technology and real time digital representations of our built environment allow us to redefine the automobile. Will this new technology lift the b...
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Few would dispute that the United States is hard to characterize as an urban nation. Yes, we'll always have New York City, but by world standards even the dens...
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One of the major inventions that changed the life in cities was the railway. Another important revolution was the car. They changed the size of the cities, thei...
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By Irina Paraschivoiu (LSE) & Fabian Wenner (LSE)Despite sharing some of the common challenges faced by post-socialist cities, the experience of Bucharest o...
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By Irina Paraschivoiu (LSE) & Fabian Wenner (LSE)After the demise of socialism in the 1990s, many Eastern European and Asian states saw a wave of privatisat...
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