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The future of cities from a global South perspective
Joined September 2011
In Ep2 of s2, Dhashen Moodley looks at Joburg’s long road towards establishing an affordable, safe mass transit system for all, and how the 2010 FIFA World Cup became a catalyst (of sorts) for this effort. More than a decade later we ask, did it work? https://t.co/YkYuq1YWLI
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Episode 1 of Season 2 of our Podcast, The City Show, just dropped… we travel to Medellin and explore an imperfect experiment in social urbanism. @UrbanAfricaACC @CityScapesMag
https://t.co/ZPgWw3DSds
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Podcast Episode · The City Show · July 6, 2023 · 31m
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O arranque da @trienaldelisboa 2022 é já amanhã! Aproveite os três dias inaugurais e aceda a todos os eventos gratuitamente. https://t.co/bVktIivYat
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Exploitative lending practices and pandemic disruptions are destroying the livelihoods and dreams of transport workers in New Delhi. Bhawani Buswala for @CityScapesMag : https://t.co/mms5qROQq8
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APPLY | Rapid urbanisation in the Global South poses challenges the implications of which demand new understandings of city-making. The MPhil #SouthernUrbanism provides an opportunity to ground yourself in the realities & theories of Southern cities.
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African Centre for Cities launches a new Masters in Southern Urbanism aimed at fostering the next generation of urban scholars from Africa rooted in Southern city perspectives.
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1/2 - Ep 6 of The City Show - Tijuana: A Simple Plan - OUT NOW!!! In ‘09, Raul Cardenas Osuna enlisted a motley crew of artists, researchers, designers and scientists to tackle a violence and crime epidemic in Camino Verde, a neighbourhood on the outskirts of Tijuana, Mexico…
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2/2…Known as Torolab, the group came up with a simple plan. They would use food and eating together as tools to rebuild their fractured community to make life better and safer. It seems to be working
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“Now is an exciting opportunity to tilt the axis of power in terms of where knowledge is produced,” says Lesley Lokko in the latest issue of Cityscapes Annual
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How do urban inhabitants develop viable ways of living together, and what steps do they take in order to make different forms of collective life economically possible? @XazaarAdjame introduces a collective project on popular economies in @CityScapesMag
https://t.co/SDk5nKDMqY
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...in Ep.5, we also speak to @EdgarPieterse of @UrbanAfricaACC about projects like Eko Atlantic, Konza, & Akon City. They miss the bigger picture, and under-estimate what it takes to transform a city, he says #cities #urbanism
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Out now in the fab relaunch of @CityScapesMag, Edwar Calderòn asks are Colombia's recent immigration reforms a genuine humanitarian gesture to Venezuelan refugees or the political manoeuvers of an unpopular president? https://t.co/uY2V5um4k1
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Are cities going to "build back better" after the pandemic? Unlikely! I wrote for @CityScapesMag on Manchester + how the super extractive 'Co-Living' model now being adopted ignores health concerns + the social/green infra demands of a high density city https://t.co/5TrVG18xUE
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Glad to be featured in Cityscape's latest issue. I explain why Lagos x tech are not entirely compatible. Also inside - delicious reads from New Delhi, Bangalore, Cape Town and more.
It’s our 10th year! We are back with a new issue of a re-imagined Cityscapes—print and online. Under the new masthead, look & focus, we have excellent journalism, interviews, ideas and dispatches from Port Harcourt, Guangzhou, Harare, Berlin, Johannesburg, Bangalore, Rio and more
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ELIE WAS HERE. I’m so very grateful to @CityScapesMag of the Uni of Cape Town for featuring the story of my friendship with Elie Halabi, a 62-year-old #Beirutblast survivor who months later died of complications from COVID. Here he is on the magazine cover https://t.co/Bsi7JzGWUW
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Contributions from @zahrahankir on Beirut, @LokkoLesley on transforming the field of architecture, @yakisawyerr on changing Freetown, @sholalawal on Lagos amongst an incredible lineup of urbanists, journalists, researchers, designers and policymakers
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It’s our 10th year! We are back with a new issue of a re-imagined Cityscapes—print and online. Under the new masthead, look & focus, we have excellent journalism, interviews, ideas and dispatches from Port Harcourt, Guangzhou, Harare, Berlin, Johannesburg, Bangalore, Rio and more
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Ep.4 of The City Show — Beirut: Condemned to Hope — OUT NOW. Mona Harb @BeirutUrbanLab and fashion designer George Azzi on surviving a seemingly endless series of unfortunate events and disaster in Beirut — and remaining hopeful. Artwork: @rafikelhariri_
https://t.co/ZU4aVUc4rj
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Read about a new initiative between the Urban Institute + Consejo Latinamericano Ciencias Sociales (CLACSO) The Urban Popular Economy Collective launch their Urban Glossary Project...in the always inspiring @CityScapesMag Co-ordinator: @XazaarAdjame
https://t.co/SDk5nKVnPy
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