Open Cities: Milestone On 25 May 2011, URBACT, the British Council, the Open Cities Network and the Open Cities project partner cities congregated at the premises of the European Economic and Social Committee and the Committee of the Regions in Brussels, ...Read More
Diversity: driver of openness Have a look at the EU map. It is almost entirely ‘blue’ and the remainders, e.g. Spain and Portugal, are bound to follow after elections. [caption id="attachment_698" align="aligncenter" width="283" caption="1_dia political Map of EU source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Council"][/caption] This has never ...Read More
Cities undergoing violence before transformation It is impossible to ignore that the current events in the Arab world are played out in cities. Cities are the stage of continuous change, of gain and loss and stalemate. Struggles take place openly throughout ...Read More
This is a fascinating new undertaking, initiated by Izabela Mironowicz at the University of Technology of Wroclaw, under the aegis of UN Habitat, AESOP and Isocarp. This first summer school took place last autumn and the city of Wroclaw was ...Read More
The Fundacion Metropoli is an important part of my life. I have spent a number of years working and thinking with them. this included living in Madrid which was an exciting experience. I am one of their senior advisers, have ...Read More
This is a new spontaneous experiment. The working group "Spirit of '68" emerged spontaneously from a discussion at the third TINAG -This Is Not A Gateway Festival in autumn 2010 on the events in and around 1968, in Paris and ...Read More
Cities are changing all the time but who is benefiting from such change and how does it relate to city openness? Regeneration is a widespread means to transforming specific parts of cities where places tend to lose value. For our ...Read More
It is timely to think about barriers when so many human beings are risking their lives to tear them down. Is it a primal urge of mankind to be unbound, free to move and think, free to assemble and undertake ...Read More
A lot has been written about cities and their ties with people. Lineu Castello’s ‘Rethinking the Meaning of Place’ (Ashgate 2010) is one of the most comprehensive literature reviews of how human beings interact with their built environment I have ...Read More
A note in Private Eye no 1281 (4-17 February 2011, p13) leads to this follow up of the Open Cities post 28. Hackney Council in London's East End voted a nil policy on sex establishments which will get rid of ...Read More
