About This Big City

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This Big City is an award winning social media organisation sharing ideas and encouraging discussion about sustainable cities. 

We explore urban trends, ideas and analysis in English, Chinese, Spanish, French, Italian and Hungarian here on thisbigcity.net and are active on Twitter, Facebook and Tumblr sharing short-form content with over 150,000 followers and engaging in social media events like our #citytalk tweetchat.

This Big City is based in London and was founded in September 2009 by Joe Peach. Joe is Editor in Chief and works with This Big City’s clients and collaborators on writing and social media projects.

Leonard Chien is our Chinese Editor, publishing This Big City 城事 from Taipei, Taiwan. Leonard is a professional translator and interpreter who counts Global Voices and Wired as clients.

Alejandro Echeverria is our Spanish Editor, publishing This Big City en español from London, UK. Alejandro is an urban planner and author of the novel The Scorpion’s Symposium.

Felicia Todor is our French Editor, publishing This Big City en français from Montreal (Qc), Canada. Felicia is a retail and urban planning consultant with MDLX Planning, working with institutions and clients from corporate real estate and government.

Alessandro Vino is our Italian Editor, publishing This Big City in italiano from Freising, Germany. Alessandro is a graduated landscape architect who works in urban & public space design.

Csada Gergely is our Hungarian Editor, publishing This Big City magyarul from Székesfehérvár, Hungary. He graduated from comperative literature and cultural studies and works as a Youth Assistant in the Cultural Centre of Fejer County.

We publish content from writers across the globe and have collaborated with charities, NGOs, and corporations on social media projects. We also offer Translation Internships. If you want to find out more about working with This Big City get in touch with Joe Peach on joe [at] thisbigcity [dot] net.

All original content on This Big City has a Creative Commons 3.0 License. We encourage you to republish our articles by following our Attribution Policy.