Category: Urban Life

The Norman Port by Eugene Isabey. Amgueddfa Cymru – National Museum Wales; http://www.artuk.org/artworks/the-norman-port-161547 Proposals for papers are welcomed to be part of a selected anthology regarding the historic moral, religious, medical, legal, political, physiological or environmental ‘corruption’ of coastal culture in the 18th and 19th century. Entries are to make contributions to a ‘New Coastal…

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As some readers know, I spent this winter on the job market. As an art educator, I was often asked to talk about my personal artwork. While some of the best art educators I know do maintain active studio practices, I also know many for whom teaching is their primary artform*. So the expectation behind…

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I have so much to say right now, but my tongue is tangled in knots. I feel so much right now, but the discomfort makes me want to hide. There is so much discomfort: Of the violence we are seeing unfold daily. It’s a brutality and injustice we’ve all known was there… but perhaps it…

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The metamorphosis of suburban landscapes has lit up debates in Finland’s urban centers. Continuing urbanization, evolving lifestyles, and the growing appetite for sustainability have steered cities to rapidly open parcels of the ample space the ‘burbs offer as new construction land. Over the past decade, as construction volume has steadily increased to accommodate the burgeoning…

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This essay was written by Leo Porte, who works on the assessment of the humanitarian needs in the Eastern part of the DRC and is based in the Kivu provinces since 2022. Read his other essays from here and here. On the 31st of December 2023, Felix Tshisekedi was reelected President of the Democratic Republic…

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As I’m leaving Singapore, the last stop on my 3-week Asian tour, I want to write down a few notes about its quite excellent urban rail system. But as Craig M. has provided a very extensive report in 2017, I will use that as a starting point and simply add my comments where necessary. I…

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Diana Robinson, Flickr, Licensed by Creative Commons. Contemplating tulips conjures images of Dutch windmills, wooden shoes, and blue Delft pottery, which makes sense because the Netherlands produces 90 percent of the world’s tulips–4.3 billion tulip bulbs annually on about 27,182 acres of tulip farms. You don’t need to go to Holland to tiptoe through the…

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To mark the publication of new contributions to our Cambridge Elements in Global Urban History series, we will feature interviews with authors and share short excerpts from their work. Here, GUHP Blog associate editor Maytal Mark interviews Carl Nightingale, the author of Our Urban Planet in Theory and History. Carl Nightingale has taught world history…

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The first seedling that I ever bought as a gardening newbie was that of  the calamansi. After more than a year of waiting, it has finally started to bear fruit early this year. Since then, I never had to buy calamansi  for our daily consumption. Planting your own calamansi tree can be a very rewarding experience for any home…

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img { border: 10px solid #FFFFFF; } I’m very glad to (finally be able to) share our new paper on measuring transportation equity. In this paper we present a critical and theoretically grounded reflection on different methods to measure transportation inequality and transportation poverty. There are several important takeaways in the paper please stop using…

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