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We accompany urban development actors & communities in the journey towards socially just cities in a sustainable world. Tweets mostly from our journal.
London, UK
Joined August 2012
🙌Our latest issue is now out!📢 #TheUrbanTranscriptsJournal Jul-Dec 2022 | Emotions and the City Just in time for your holiday reading https://t.co/5OHms2IP5V
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"#emotions are far more than subjective experiences, private anecdotes or personal memories. In fact, they are always expressions of power relations, social hierarchies and thus #politics" Read the editorial👇 https://t.co/l10ZDxQoJW
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Emotions play a role in the way we see, inhabit and build cities. Whenever we avoid walking through dark parks at night, design uncomfortable benches to scare homeless people away, cheer or suffer...
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SAVE THE DATES! 🎥 PUSH will be available to watch on https://t.co/tEhvVZYOYa for one week, from the 4th - 10th of November. 🗣 At 19:00 CET on November 8th, the screening will be followed by a debate on potential solutions to the housing crisis in Europe.
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Call | Housing for a Fairer and Greener World | Closing 30 November 2022 - https://t.co/eKgGENAYj3
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Next Monday, Nov 7, we will have Jennifer Robinson at Think&Drink presenting her new book "Comparative Urbanism: Tactics for Global Urban Studies". Discussants: Hannah Schilling @schillha & Nadir Kinossian @NKinossian
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Excited to be talking about our ZeroCity+ urban game project for net zero strategies and environmental care at the DEP forum today with @UrbanTweeting @lanuzarq @DesignMuseum @ahrcpress #futureobservatory
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Housing for a Fairer and Greener World 📢#CallforSubmissions Deadline extended: Closing 30 November Calling for contributions that critically review #housing models, policies, projects and processes, and radically reimagine how we dwell in our cities. https://t.co/2ql5M0ezjo
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There is no denying the fundamental role of housing as a guarantor of human development. Yet, we are nowhere near guaranteeing humanity’s fundamental housing need. While in the Global North housing...
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Closing the first part of our #ZeroCityPlus #participatory urban game we spoke to #FutureObservatory about our experience so far and future ambitions. Check it out! @UniofReading @UKRI_News @ahrcpress @yiorgos_pap @CarolinaVasilik @lanuzarq @DesignMuseum
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“I might not be able to see, but I can hear the birds sing, I can smell the flowers, and I can feel the wind in my hair” https://t.co/ZpeKifNkiL
#mobility #inclusion #publicspace #cycling @CycleWithoutAge
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Cycling Without Age (CWA) is a volunteer-based organization first started in Copenhagen in 2012. By means of a collaboration with the city municipality of Copenhagen and the nursing homes where the...
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“the possibility to ‘simply be’ in the public space tells us about who has their right to the city guaranteed, and who is instead considered ‘out of place’” https://t.co/5JXKbBPSgW
#gender #publicspace #spatialsjustice #feministcity @LellyK
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The experience of the city cannot be synthesized in absolute terms, yet urbanism and spatial planning have taken men’s needs as the norm, for centuries. From transportation to housing, to public...
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The #documentary explores the functioning of #Broedplaatsen, municipally funded ‘hatchery spaces’ for artists, entrepreneurs and start-ups, in neighbourhoods where housing price is rapidly rising. https://t.co/WqkJfKeaYo
#gentrification #amsterdam
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Lyubov’s work is inspired, often indirectly, by her personal life or everyday life events. As she tells us “in the case of I am a tool of Gentrification (2019) my real-life situation really set the...
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📢 Last #call 🥁 closing today 👇
Housing for a Fairer and Greener World #CallforSubmissions Closing 30 June #TheUrbanTranscriptsJournal is calling for submissions that critically review housing models, policies, projects and processes, and radically reimagine how we dwell in our cities. https://t.co/WUarxJnLtu
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“The experience of an urban transport system that reproduces social injustices is still here, currently the only difference is the addition of mandatory masks.” https://t.co/xqLNsstPtK
#protest #mobility #Santiago #Chile #EstallidoSocial
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The present photo essay seeks to visualize the resilience of a transport system and how it exposes deep social differences in Chile. On the 18th October 2019 a social outbreak started, first in...
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“What hours of the day could one rest from the constant work of fortifying one’s children against a blackness that would ultimately burden them?” @DrWendyMThompsn
#inequality #racism #home #ownership
https://t.co/EtedspUI1k
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Living in a black place mattered to me, the granddaughter of black southern migrants who had left homes in Louisiana to make new homes out west. Monroe, Lake Charles, Gary, Marin City. All of these...
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“a crossroads, on the one side of which there are local authorities, and on the other refugees waiting for their official status to be confirmed” #publicspace #protest #refugees #memory
https://t.co/13FhNgXk6M
@sashakurmaz
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The Pain of Others is an intervention that consists of photos, collages, posters, and banners which at first sight resemble memorial sites spontane...
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“In contrast to the democratic mass of the Athenian Agora, where all could speak but none was heard, the Pnyx allowed one to speak to many.” #publicspace #participation #politics
@fani_ko @cityastheatre @public_culture_
https://t.co/IyMMmMYXD1
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We speak. Whether with our voices, our hands or through technologies, speaking is inseparable from being human. When do our words become political? Politics can be in what we say, but it can also be...
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"the 17th of October upheaval … succeeded to transform the protests’ grounds into a collective mental and physical space for spontaneous dissent against the political system" #Beirut #publicspace #securitisation #protest
https://t.co/TFu39x7UrA
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“To come into existence, freedom has as its basic prerequisite, the participation of many people who engage in an intersubjective form of action.” #movementoftesquares #occupation #protest #publicspace
https://t.co/iHsqOQFvAu
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The square-movement of 2011 erupted as a protest and resistance to existing forms of governance globally. It gathered crowds from different backgrounds in a heterogeneous manner and formed a shared...
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"the city was being fortified at almost the same spots where its … ninth-century walls stood until they were dismantled in the early 1900s; #Beirut's present-day inhabitants were now recast as its past invaders.” #publicspace #securitisation #protest
https://t.co/D0L4ub6m4g
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During the speech addressing the Protests in Lebanon in October 20191, Lebanese President Michel Aoun announced, “I heard many voices calling for the toppling of the regime. Regime change, young...
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