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Edinburgh attracts millions of tourists during August for its major festivals, providing a stage for the world’s best musicians, artists, composers and actors. But its steadily emerging street art scene gets little in the way of acknowledgement from these overwhelming commercial successes. While nobody is deluded enough to suggest that our small scene rivals the…
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Gustav Eiffel’s Pont de le Peixateries Velles over Onyar river. Photo: Robin Plaskoff Horton. Updated June 6, 2024 The history of Girona, Spain, is as colorful as the ocher and coral-toned buildings lining the banks of the Onyar river flowing through this ancient city. Bursting with historical sites, Girona is just a 40-minute express train…
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img { border: 10px solid #FFFFFF; } I’m very glad to (finally be able to) share our new paper on measuring transportation equity. In this paper we present a critical and theoretically grounded reflection on different methods to measure transportation inequality and transportation poverty. There are several important takeaways in the paper please stop using…
Third edition took place from 8 to 10 October at Messe Dortmund In its third edition, VertiFarm, the leading international trade fair for Next Level Farming and New Food Systems, offered participants from the controlled environment agriculture (CEA) sector plenty of space to hold in-depth discussions and make valuable contacts. The aim: to create sustainable…
If you’re coming to Melbourne for the first time, you’ll probably find yourself hungrily making your way from the Airport to the Southern Cross Station skybus terminal, eyes darting around for something more enthralling than reading the fine print ingredients of local potato chip brands in a vending machine. Like all the best things in…
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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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