By Rob Hopkins, Rob Hopkins blog
We took everybody on a journey that said the arts too have their place in the life of a city, and that the city doesn’t just have to be about shopping and traffic, that it’s as important for people collectively to share these moments, moments like this, as it is for them to share or to experience moments in their own life.
By John Thackara, John Thackara blog
The notion of the city as a living system generates cultural energy, too: A narrative based on caring – for each other, and for our places – creates the meaning and shared purpose we’ve been so badly lacking.
By Bart Hawkins Kreps, An Outside Chance
Although our geographic and political situations vary a great deal, nearly all cities in industrial civilization have been dominated by car culture for a few generations, and we face many common challenges as we work back towards cities that are safe for everyone who could and should be moving about our streets.
By Bart Hawkins Kreps, An Outside Chance
How would you describe the process in which a small country builds a 35,000 kilometer network of fully separated bike infrastructure – and traffic-calms 75 per cent of their urban streets to a speeds of 30 km/h (19 mph) or less?
By Laurie Mazur, Medium.com
Climate challenges do not affect all people equally. House by house, block by block, there are huge differences in vulnerability based on geography, health status, income level and other factors. Such differences are not always visible to decision-makers. F
By Laura Roth, Bertie Russell, ROAR Magazine
In moving together, municipalist movements are already demonstrating internationalism — in the “old” sense of working together across boundaries. Yet this internationalism provides the crucible for working towards internationalism in a “new” sense...
By Heather Haylett, Project for Public Spaces
This September, Bike Easy and a large coalition of partners are working with the City of New Orleans to create Connect the Crescent – a connected, protected bikeway network in the heart of the city – showcasing a bold vision to improve biking, walking, and riding transit.
By Steve Rushton, Occupy.com
The Right to the City is a core ingredient in the radical municipalist movement now spreading across cities worldwide, driven by local issues.
By Wayne Roberts, Resilience.org
The powers and resources of city governments must be protected and enhanced to provide proper oversight and governance of new food challenges.
By Fernanda Marin, OuiShare
Cities are still places where the poor and modest middle classes can actually live. They participate in the local economy, a partial one, but one where they create their opportunities.