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Food is on the move! The year is 2020. A silver pod the size of a watermelon cruises towards your bedroom window, flashing softly to catch your attention. You slide open your airlock to allow the pod to latch onto the small loading bay. Once attached, the pod opens to reveal a silver container…
In the run-up to #URBACTfest, sit back and enjoy this musical tour of urban Europe, from Daniele Terzariol, URBACT ad-hoc expert and Deputy Mayor of San Donà di Piave (IT). The cities URBACT supports are complex realities and a source of design inspiration. They’re also often the starting point or the landing place for…
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1. Shepard Fairey, Coup d’État, 2012 Following the successes of Mapping the City and Futurismo Ancestral, Somerset House will again collaborate with arts organisation A(by)P to present Venturing Beyond: Graffiti and the Everyday Utopias of the Street. As part of ‘UTOPIA 2016: A Year of Imagination and Possibility’ at Somerset House, the exhibition will explore…
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Guest blogger: Cortney Kirk, Somerville Urban Ag Ambassador During the spring and summer of 2018 I spent my volunteer time, as a Somerville Urban Agriculture Ambassador, at the Somerville Growing Center. It has been a great experience and fulfilled one of my goals of participating in the Ag program, getting more involved with a community…
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Once again I have had circumstances that have taken me away from being present here on Blogger as well as from moving forward with my “Imperfect Strangers” book project. I feel akin to Mooch, the cat featured in the Mutts comic strip atop this entry and I must confess, the longer I’m away from my…
To mark the publication of new contributions to our Cambridge Elements in Global Urban History series, we will feature interviews with authors and share short excerpts from their work. Here, GUHP Blog associate editor Maytal Mark interviews Carl Nightingale, the author of Our Urban Planet in Theory and History. Carl Nightingale has taught world history…
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(Greenhouse with early garden pic) (The team at work) (Greenhouse with mid summer garden pic) (Pumpkin) (Garden pic) (Johnny & Stacey) (Mervon) (Mary and Caroline harvesting marigold seeds)
Urban physicality is a complex network of systems; a family homemaker would be worried about the hike in the price of tomatoes in the grocery store, (s)he starts discussing with another homemaker from the neighbourhood vis-a-vis the dialogue is carried out to a water tap, where men and women wait to fill up their buckets,…
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How to get rid of Virginia creeper (native) and invasive vines like euonymus (wintercreeper) and English ivy is important as these vines can be devastating when allowed to climb high onto trees. “If they get established and get big, as they often do, they can cover the whole tree and then rob the tree of…
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Clean air and clean water are the main things citizens want for their health and well being as residents in a sustainable city, according to a recent global survey conducted by WWF-Sweden. Clean air, however, has become a scarce commodity in our world as recently reported by the World Health Organization (WHO). Reduce pollution in cities…
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