If you’re coming to Melbourne for the first time, you’ll probably find yourself hungrily making your way from the Airport to the Southern Cross Station skybus terminal, eyes darting around for something more enthralling than reading the fine print ingredients of local potato chip brands in a vending machine. Like all the best things in…
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It’s been 6 months by now that I’ve started renovating a “western-style” house built in 1934, previously a pediatric clinic, located near Ginkakuji in the Jodoji are, Kyoto. From our home office, “Bridge To,” it’s just a 5-minute walk. We first noticed this grand, uninhabited Western-style house around five years ago. After a year of…
On September 7th, 2024, Volery Gallery proudly unveiled *Kaleidoscope*, the debut exhibition of Moroccan artist **Ghizlane Agzenaï** in the Middle East. The exhibition transformed the gallery into a vibrant world of color, form, and emotion, marking a significant moment in Agzenaï’s artistic journey. Known for her geometric shapes and radiant color palettes, Agzenaï’s work invites…
A heavy use footpath and a main road in Dublin 6. Source: William Murphy, CC License. Public space and COVID-19 In Ireland, public space has been seen as being an important platform for people to be able to recuperate and engage in socially and physically restorative activities in the wake of COVID-19 restrictions. As with…
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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 Mariana Dantas and Emma Hart, the authors of Early Modern Atlantic Cities. Mariana Dantas is Associate Professor of…
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832: Cindy Gentry on Food Coop’s Impact on Local Food. How they can change the food landscape. In This Podcast: Cindy discusses her extensive work in food co-ops, hunger prevention, and healthy food systems development. She shares her experiences in establishing the Phoenix Public Market and various farmers market programs to support local farmers and…
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An interdisciplinary conference16th-18th September 2019St John’s College, Cambridge Paper proposals are invited for an interdisciplinary conference on ‘Encounters: the coincidence of space, time, and subjectivity’. This conference will bring into dialogue a range of disciplines to explore ways in which space and time interact, how they are socially formed or experienced, how they are culturally…
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Fig 1 – “The Etheral Junkspace” a photo manipulation by Manaswini Rajesh. etcetera, etcetera and etcetera. City centre of Madurai, a sterilised urban form, on the river banks of Vaigai, is defined by its streets that were constructed with a yardstick that fits exactly a bullock cart. Don’t even get me started on the current…
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Clean air and clean water are the main things citizens want for their health and well being as residents in a sustainable city, according to a recent global survey conducted by WWF-Sweden. Clean air, however, has become a scarce commodity in our world as recently reported by the World Health Organization (WHO). Reduce pollution in cities…
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First in a Series of Lockdown Blogs My community keeps me going in these uncertain times. After enduring a slow process to sell my home and beloved garden of 25 years, the end came in a downpour on March 16th. Though I felt I had done a lot of preparation, there was still a ton…
