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Cities across Europe are looking for solutions to develop fairer housing models. In 2020, URBACT and Urban Innovative Actions (UIA) developed a common ‘Right2Housing’ platform to exchange ‘housing as a right’ practices among cities. Although the debate on affordable housing in Europe has recently sent out important messages for policy-makers, the housing context of the…
Moniker Art Fair will be returning to East London’s iconic Old Truman Brewery this year from 15th October, having firmly established itself as London’s premiere event for contemporary art rooted in urban culture. The fair will showcase works from approximately 20 national and international art galleries and feature some of the world’s pioneering talent in…
It’s been 6 months by now that I’ve started renovating a “western-style” house built in 1934, previously a pediatric clinic, located near Ginkakuji in the Jodoji are, Kyoto. From our home office, “Bridge To,” it’s just a 5-minute walk. We first noticed this grand, uninhabited Western-style house around five years ago. After a year of…
Are you thinking about making the switch to natural hair dye (aka henna)? If so, here are 11 Things To Know Before Using Henna Hair Dye! I’ve been using henna on my hair for the last few years, minus a quick blip when I decided to lighten my hair last summer, only to then return…
**This is a guest blog post, written by , manager of WWF’s Sustainable Cities programme in México, including México’s participation in WWF’s One Planet City Challenge (or in Spanish: Desafío de Ciudades de WWF). Color, culture and diversity in Mexico’s largest city As one of the biggest cities in the world, Mexico City is full of life,…
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Editor’s Note: This is the first post in this month’s theme, The Latinx City By Ryan Reft If you’ve been even remotely paying attention in 2024, immigration and its impact on America has been a hot topic this year (and to be honest, nearly every election cycle since the 1990s). Granted, it’s a discussion largely…
In my last post here on Blogger that was much overdue, (the delay was unavoidable due to my having very serious medical complications), which were mostly as a result of my having Neurofibromatosis (NF), part of what I state in this post is, “Depending on the outcome of that appointment, I’m not sure how frequently I’ll post but…
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An extensive exhibition titled Ai Weiwei. Don Quixote will open at the Museum of Contemporary Art of Castilla y León (MUSAC) in León, Spain, on November 9. This ambitious project showcases a variety of works, including large-scale installations, pieces created with toy bricks, and films. Spanning around 1,700 square meters—more than half of the museum’s…
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A number of books have come to our attention as our interests in urban and visual space, time, the scales and tempos of climate warming and architectural issues including architects’ northern, boreal and Arctic utopian cities, housing crises, deoclonization and Indigeneity. All these are linked by concerns over the geopolitical respatialisation and struggle over the…
By Guest blogger: Urban Ag Ambassador, Julia Featheringill It would be impossible to sum up in one blog post the totality of my amazing experience this spring and summer with the Urban Ag Ambassador program and my volunteer work with the Somerville Community Growing Center. Promptly after I graduated from the Urban Ag program I…
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