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OC 60: Creative Spaces for Creation
Footholder value creation A space under East London railway arches has become a hands-on workspace of an international avant-garde landscape architecture practice. http://www.vogt-la.com/en Ten minutes walk from the main office situated in the sphere of influence of London’s silicon roundabout this space is designed to experiment with the transformation of urban landscapes into spaces fit […]
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OC 58: Remaking Cities
About Café-Diplo Café Diplo is a sister discussion group of “Les Amis Le Monde Diplomatique” which supports writings and tradition evolved around Le Monde Diplomatic newspaper of which there exists an English edition. The debates are arranged around the Café-Diplo’s global anti neo-conservative liberal tradition which covers a wide range of issues. http://mondediplofriends.org.uk/index.htm The future […]
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OC 56: Greening the City Globally?
Ecobuild, a trade fair in London promoting “sustainable building” has been going from strength to strength for nine years, despite the financial crisis and various changes of hands. In 2011, UBM acquired International Business Events who owned ecobuild and planned to make ecobuild global, starting with an exhibition in Shanghai alongside its show expobuild and […]
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Generation E
The BBC in Europe A rare treat: the BBC is allocating a modest weekly quarter of an hour to European issues. The second Radio 4 series of five programmes is called “Generation E” fronted by Lucy Ash. It deals with the younger generation of fellow Europeans beyond the Channel and how they are “facing up […]
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Spirit of ’68
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 elsewhere. The question was why this promising social movement did not have lasting effects, and […]
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Open Cities 11 Open-Closed-Divided-Stitched Up
All the posts under ‘Open Cities’ have been written for the British Council Open Cities project and published on its website. http://opencities.britishcouncil.org/web/index.php?home_en The reason why they are reproduced on the Urban Thinker website is that there is not enough space for all the illustrations which go with the posts on the British Council Open Cities […]
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Open Cities 3 The Case of London
Open Cities 3 The Case of London Openness or diversity? London is by far the largest city of the European Union and arguably the most diverse in terms of its population, economy and cultural characteristics. How does London fare with openness though? A diverse city does not necessarily mean an open city The Open Cities […]