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Part of our听Post COVID-19 Urban Futures听series.
Co-authored by Haim Yacobi, Michelle Pace, Ziad Abu Mustafa and Manal Massalha
Part of our听Post COVID-19 Urban Futures听series.
Co-authored by Catalina Ortiz and Camillo Boano
Part of our听Post COVID-19 Urban Futures听series.
鈥減eople survive difficulty by coming together as communities of care, not pulling apart in a retreat into individualism鈥澨� , 2020
鈥淗ousing is a condition to the right to life鈥� Laia Bonet, 2020
Part of our Post COVID-19 Urban Futures series.
Many of the world鈥檚 most iconic cities are in lock-down. Bustling public places have emptied overnight. As the images below show, Times Square (New York) is eerily quiet, traffic disappeared from the streets of Shanghai. Even the pigeons are staying away from St. Mark鈥檚 (Venice).
Last Tuesday 11th February, we held the event titled 鈥淭he Politics of Making Disability Visible in Community-led Urban Research鈥� as part of the Dialogues in Development series at The Bartlett Developing and Planning Unit (UCL). The aim was to share reflections and learnings from the action-research project 鈥淐ommunity-led solution: Assistive Technologies in Informal Settlements鈥� 鈥� an on-going research project in four low-income urban communities: two in Freetown (Sierra Leone) and two in Banjarmasin (Indonesia).
Co-authored by Joana Dabaj
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By Monica Basbous, Nadine Bekdache and Camillo Boano
By Dr. Catalina Ortiz and Gynna Millan
A research collaboration between The听Bartlett DPU staff, UN-Habitat, United Cities and Local Governments (UCLG), Habitat International Coalition (HIC), Cities Alliance, the Municipality of Medellin and six grassroots organisations part of Movimiento de Pobladores and Sandelion 鈥� a local transmedia production organisation- to co-design a digital platform that helps to learn about slum upgrading strategies.
There is an growing body of scholarship that supports the cultivation of green spaces in urban environments as a vital part of healthcare and wellbeing provision in cities and communities (Pearson and Craig 2014; Wyles et al. 2017). 听According to the constitution of the World Health Organisation health is 鈥榓 state of complete physical, mental and social wellbeing and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity鈥�. In other words, it includes both听physical and psychological wellbeing.
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