David Maddox, New York .
Other Essays on: 26 Visions for Urban Equity, Inclusion and Opportunity
Carla Sutherland, Cape Town
I have lived in an array of fascinating cities, and visited a host of others. I have loved many (New York, Hong Kong, Harare and Berlin); been miserable in a few (London and Pretoria); oddly disappointed by some (San Francisco, Dublin and Sydney) overwhelmed by others (Shanghai and Cairo); and...
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Betsy Hodges, Minneapolis
There is a difference between equality and equity. Equality says that everybody can participate in our success and equity says we need to make sure that everybody actually does participate in our success and in our growth. A just city is a city free from both inequity and inequality. We...
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Lesley Lokko, Johannesburg
“[A city where] everything comes together . . . subjectivity and objectivity, the abstract and the concrete, the real and the imagined, the knowable and the unimaginable, the repetitive and the differential, structure and agency, mind and body, consciousness and the unconscious, the disciplined and the trans-disciplinary, everyday life and...
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Ben Bradlow, Boston
There are two main legacies that define urban inequality in South Africa: housing and transport. Apartheid was not only a racial ideology. It was also a spatial planning ideology. Johannesburg’s development into a wealthy, white core of business and residential activity, with peripheral black dormitory townships, was a result of...
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SCIENCE &
TOOLS
26 October 2020
What I Know Now: The Need for “Good Trouble” to Build an Anti-Racist Science of Ecology
A meditation on race and ecology on the occasion of the death of U.S. Representative John Lewis.Representative John R. Lewis (1940-2020) was a hero of the civil rights movement in the United States. He was one of the six leaders...
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PEOPLE &
COMMUNITITES
1 October 2017
Metropolis under Emergency: A Board Game to Plan Resilient Cities while Considering Place Attachment
To plan resilient cities is a complex task. It involves making decisions that involve the built, social, economic, and environmental development of a territory, including unexpected changes, such as those caused by extreme natural events. The effects of earthquakes, tsunamis, volcanic eruptions and fires, among other disturbances, need to be studied, anticipated and included in the planning process of cities,...
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PLACE &
DESIGN
24 July 2018
Urban Metabolism: A Real World Model for Visualizing and Co-Creating Healthy Cities
Like the human body, cities are living, ever-evolving organisms. Just as diet, exercise, sleep, or laughter can be seen as indicators of our personal physical and emotional well being, the ways in which goods, water, commuters, or food move through...
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ART &
AWARENESS
1 September 2016
Torpor and Awakening
I am from a family with Indigenous Latin American and German ancestry. I have been to many different countries and lived in different places. I believe this is partly because the Indigenous tradition my family comes from is nomadic. They...
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