Jul 9, 2015 | Blog, Cities, Knowledge Networks, Operational and Delivery Networks
Greg Lindsay, Senior Fellow, New Cities Foundation @Greg_Lindsay School is out, summer holidays are just getting started — this might just be the busiest season on the urbanist’s conference calendar. A year ago, my June schedule included the 14th Venice...
May 17, 2015 | Blog, Cities, Climate, Climate & Planet Stewardship, Environment & Sustainability, Operational and Delivery Networks
Elinor Ostrom won the Nobel prize in 2009 in part for her observation that communities can solve the “crisis of the commons,” the problems caused by some people taking a “free ride” on the benefits of common resources at the expense of the...
May 3, 2015 | Cities, Health & Human Security
The crowdsourced information field of “crisis mapping” makes a critical difference in the ability of response teams to reach and help victims of disaster. OpenStreetMap and their Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) were instrumental in Haiti after the...
Mar 16, 2015 | Advocacy Networks, Cities, Climate, Climate & Planet Stewardship, Environment & Sustainability, Health & Human Security, Health & Wellbeing
In adventures he chronicles on his Facebook page, Existe Água em SP (“There is Water in SP”), the river hunter Adriano Sampaio is a tireless urban expeditionist, walking the city in search of lost rivers and springs, and posting a steady stream of videos to his page....
Mar 2, 2015 | Cities, Health & Human Security, Health & Wellbeing, Operational and Delivery Networks
Curtin University has just earned the first 5 Green Star Communities Rating from the Green Building Council for a master plan developed for a design for the Perth campus that focusses on sustainability, a critical step, says CannonDesign architect Peter Ellis, in...
