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From ancient times to today, cities are spaces of co-creation

Many modern cities are focal points for escalating oppression. Since European colonisation, an idea that humans march one-way from simple egalitarian bands towards contemporary complexity has dominated. Cities are a rite of passage on this supposed metamorphosis. The story goes: civilisation is a package, with…

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Rethinking land and relation in Berlin’s struggle for housing justice

At the end of May 2021, I found myself behind a table in Tempelhof Field, Berlin’s largest public park, helping children print dandelions alongside the slogan Wir Bleiben Alle (We’re all staying) in multiple languages onto bright yellow paper. In the windswept park, papers blew…

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How gentrification works in Istanbul, Turkey, ways to resist it and where we are falling short

Istanbul is the largest city (around 16,000,000 people) in Turkey and it is the economic and cultural centre of the country. Gentrification in Istanbul started as a classical gentrification process (that is, through the private housing market or market-led). After the 1950s, the population in…

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Taking back control: The future of public services

Lavinia Steinfort

From Barcelona to Grenoble, towns, cities and regions are reclaiming democratic control over vital services like water and healthcare. We spoke to Transnational Institute researcher Lavinia Steinfort about how, contrary to decades of received wisdom, reversing privatisation results in more accessible, accountable and cost-effective public…

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Liveable spaces for all: Covid-19 in the city

Helen Cole
Paola Hernández

For people living in cities during the lockdown, space was a major concern, both in and outside the home. The pandemic has reconfigured the way we use and think about urban space. Will it be sufficient for a fairer, healthier city to emerge? Paola Hernández…

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Cities as empty shells: Urban tourism in a post-pandemic world

Sofia Cherici

The tourism industry employs almost five times as many people as car manufacturing in the EU. In much of Southern Europe, it has been a lonely growth area throughout years of stagnation. But for cities such as Rome and Venice, its side effects have been…

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Connect the city: Rights, justice and the digital divide

Guillem Ramírez Chico

Among the trends accelerated by the pandemic, digitalisation stands out for its pace of change. Large parts of education, work, and social services moved online in a matter of weeks. Though many people lack the connections, equipment, and skills to access what are often fundamental…

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Taking power in a crisis: France’s green cities

Benoit Monange
Bruno Bernard
Léonore Moncond’huy

In June 2020, after a drawn-out process punctuated by the peak of the health crisis, Green lists excelled in France’s municipal elections. They are now at the head of the executive in some of France’s largest cities, including Marseille, Lyon, Bordeaux, Strasbourg, and Tours. In…

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Wiki on sustainable just cities

Urban Arena

This Wiki is an ongoing, open-ended online collaborative database and knowledge source for the Community of Practice of the UrbanA project. It captures the learning process of the UrbanA Community of Practice and is an important part of UrbanA’s knowledge commons. It includes a database…

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