The future of cities from a global South perspective
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In Ep2 of s2, Dhashen Moodley looks at Joburg’s long road towards establishing an affordable, safe mass transit system for all, and how the 2010 FIFA World Cup became a catalyst (of sorts) for this effort. More than a decade later we ask, did it work?
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Episode 1 of Season 2 of our Podcast, The City Show, just dropped… we travel to Medellin and explore an imperfect experiment in social urbanism. @UrbanAfricaACC @CityScapesMag
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O arranque da @trienaldelisboa 2022 é já amanhã! Aproveite os três dias inaugurais e aceda a todos os eventos gratuitamente.
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Exploitative lending practices and pandemic disruptions are destroying the livelihoods and dreams of transport workers in New Delhi. Bhawani Buswala for @CityScapesMag :
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APPLY | Rapid urbanisation in the Global South poses challenges the implications of which demand new understandings of city-making. The MPhil #SouthernUrbanism provides an opportunity to ground yourself in the realities & theories of Southern cities. bit.ly/3Ci1YTA
1/2 - Ep 6 of The City Show - Tijuana: A Simple Plan - OUT NOW!!! In ‘09, Raul Cardenas Osuna enlisted a motley crew of artists, researchers, designers and scientists to tackle a violence and crime epidemic in Camino Verde, a neighbourhood on the outskirts of Tijuana, Mexico…
2/2…Known as Torolab, the group came up with a simple plan. They would use food and eating together as tools to rebuild their fractured community to make life better and safer. It seems to be working cityscapesmagazine.com/podca…
“Now is an exciting opportunity to tilt the axis of power in terms of where knowledge is produced,” says Lesley Lokko in the latest issue of Cityscapes Annual cityscapesmagazine.com/artic…
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How do urban inhabitants develop viable ways of living together, and what steps do they take in order to make different forms of collective life economically possible?
@XazaarAdjame introduces a collective project on popular economies in @CityScapesMag
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...in Ep.5, we also speak to @EdgarPieterse of @UrbanAfricaACC about projects like Eko Atlantic, Konza, & Akon City. They miss the bigger picture, and under-estimate what it takes to transform a city, he says #cities #urbanism
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Out now in the fab relaunch of @CityScapesMag, Edwar Calderòn asks are Colombia's recent immigration reforms a genuine humanitarian gesture to Venezuelan refugees or the political manoeuvers of an unpopular president?
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Are cities going to "build back better" after the pandemic?
Unlikely!
I wrote for @CityScapesMag on Manchester + how the super extractive 'Co-Living' model now being adopted ignores health concerns + the social/green infra demands of a high density city
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Glad to be featured in Cityscape's latest issue. I explain why Lagos x tech are not entirely compatible. Also inside - delicious reads from New Delhi, Bangalore, Cape Town and more. cityscapesmagazine.com/artic…
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ELIE WAS HERE. I’m so very grateful to @CityScapesMag of the Uni of Cape Town for featuring the story of my friendship with Elie Halabi, a 62-year-old #Beirutblast survivor who months later died of complications from COVID. Here he is on the magazine cover tinyurl.com/ukma7vpn
It’s our 10th year! We are back with a new issue of a re-imagined Cityscapes—print and online. Under the new masthead, look & focus, we have excellent journalism, interviews, ideas and dispatches from Port Harcourt, Guangzhou, Harare, Berlin, Johannesburg, Bangalore, Rio and more
Contributions from @zahrahankir on Beirut, @LokkoLesley on transforming the field of architecture, @yakisawyerr on changing Freetown, @sholalawal on Lagos amongst an incredible lineup of urbanists, journalists, researchers, designers and policymakers cityscapesmagazine.com/magaz…
Ep.4 of The City Show — Beirut: Condemned to Hope — OUT NOW. Mona Harb @BeirutUrbanLab and fashion designer George Azzi on surviving a seemingly endless series of unfortunate events and disaster in Beirut — and remaining hopeful. Artwork: @rafikelhariri_
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Read about a new initiative between the Urban Institute + Consejo Latinamericano Ciencias Sociales (CLACSO)
The Urban Popular Economy Collective launch their Urban Glossary Project...in the always inspiring @CityScapesMag
Co-ordinator: @XazaarAdjame
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