Herriges Rezoned: A City Shaped by Many Hands
By Daniel Herriges, Strong Towns
Incremental development is a practical means to an end. And that end is beautiful, livable, resilient, financially sound places.
Tag: building resilient cities
From ancient times to today, cities are spaces of co-creation
By Steve Rushton, Minim
The Dawn of Everything, published in October 2021 by David Graeber and David Wengrow is 700 amazing pages breaking down self-fulfilling myths about humanity since the Ice Age.
Building feminist cities
By Marion Roberts, Red Pepper
A socialist-feminist approach cuts through this technical complexity by demanding that the work of reproduction, of caring work and domestic responsibilities, typically undertaken by women and girls, be recognised and valued in equal measure to that of production.
Rethinking land and relation in Berlin’s struggle for housing justice
By Amanda Priebe, Minim
What would it mean for us to belong to the city rather than for the city to belong to us? And might changing this framework also change how we organize with our neighbours?
From The Ground Up: Local Efforts to Create Resilient Cities—Excerpt
By Alison Sant, Resilience.org
From the Ground Up: Local Efforts to Create Resilient Cities focuses on the unique ways in which US cities are expanding the scope of global solutions that mitigate and adapt to climate change while creating equitable and livable communities in the process.
There is Unrest in the Urban Forest
By Daniel Herriges, Strong Towns
The truth is that high urban density and abundant housing are entirely compatible with a lush tree canopy.
The elites can’t stop climate change, but democratic cities can
By Yavor Tarinski, Resilience.org
It is time for the radical democratization of cities, in order for a meaningful and resourceful plan for action from the grassroots to be initiated. Anything less than this is simply a waste of time.
Nature in Cities and Cities in Nature
By Lee Epstein, Resilience.org
What is the current relationship of modern cities to nature? Cities are important to nature in a backhanded kind of way: without these relatively compact human settlements we would require a lot of more of what now comprises important open, resource lands on which to live.
Transformation or Gentrification? The Hazy Politics of the 15-Minute City
By Joe Herbert, Degrowth.de
With increasing interest in the concept likely to persist, the most optimistic reading of the 15-minute city is to view it as a hook on which there is potential to attach a transformative urban socio-ecological agenda, but only if competing capitalist interests can be successfully fended off.
The American Alley, Part 4: Rediscovering the Forgotten Human Scale
By Thomas Dougherty, Strong Towns
It is time that we recognize that the potential for spatially formed, human-scaled, beautiful, and prosperous urban places already lies within every urban block.
The American Alley, Part 3: The End of the American Alley
By Thomas Dougherty, Strong Towns
As ADUs are developed along alleys in the next few years, we are presented with an opportunity: to construct ADUs which front the street and transform the service alley into a minor street, or to construct ADUs which only look into the private lot, simply leaving the alley as it is.
The American Alley, Part 2: Origins of the American Alley
By Thomas Dougherty, Strong Towns
Understanding the alley’s past reveals it for what it is today: a hidden resource for making our cities stronger and more prosperous.
