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Jul

Creative City: Four Projects Bringing Arts and Culture to Dubai

Categories: Africa and the Middle East, Arts and Culture, People

by Oli Mould

Dubai’s creative and artistic scene is critical if it wants to be considered a creative city on the global stage. Often upstaged by iconic skyscrapers, Dubai has a growing number of institutions and initiatives that are showing signs of creating a sustainable base of artistic creativity. Here's four of them. Read more

Jul

Four Changes that Made Tehran a More Liveable City

Categories: Africa and the Middle East, Planning, Urban Scale

Tags: cc

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by Elyana Javaheri

Tehran's previous Mayors did many great things for the city, but there was a lot of room for improvement. Now, the Iranian capital's current Mayor is working to further improve the city, implementing four important and successful policies. Read more

Jun

Hundreds Turn Out to Demand Basic Rights for Women in Jordan

Categories: Africa and the Middle East, Community, People

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by Global Voices

Over 200 people created a human chain in the streets of Amman on the afternoon of Monday June 25, 2012, holding signs to demonstrate against crimes in the name of honor, harassment, nationality discrimination against children of Jordanian women. Read more

Jun

How San Francisco’s Food Trucks Bring More to the City than Just Food

Categories: Africa and the Middle East, Arts and Culture, People, USA and Canada

Tags: Cape Town, cc, food, San Francisco, street food, streets

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by Future Cape Town

The gourmet food truck movement in San Francisco is thriving. Most trucks focus on a particular cuisine - indian, japanese, mexican, you name it - and this street food is bring life to the streets. Food trucks make the street a destination and not just a necessary function of the city. Read more

Jun

Innovating for Sustainability: Making Ripples or Making Waves?

Categories: Africa and the Middle East, Arts and Culture, Europe, People, UK, USA and Canada

Tags: innovation, shipping

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by Forum for the Future

Green innovation is gaining momentum, but will it fundamentally shift business towards resilience, or it will it stay in the hothouse? Without systems thinking, even the best new ideas can only go so far. What will it take to join up the dots? Read more

Jun

Building Sustainable Schools in Palestine’s Gaza Strip

Categories: Africa and the Middle East, Buildings, Non-residential

Tags: education

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by Forum for the Future

Palestine's Gaza Strip will soon have as many as 20 'eco schools', with light and power supplied by solar and geothermal sources. The schools will also harvest rain, recycle greywater, and will incorporate traditional Islamic features such as mashrabiya screens for shading and ventilation. Read more

May

Future Cities: Imagining, Planning, and Bringing them to Life

Categories: Africa and the Middle East, Asia and the Pacific, Latin America, Planning, Urban Scale

Tags: Abuja, Canberra, cc, citytalk, future

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by Future Cape Town

The concept or idea of a New or Future City can be unsettling, perhaps even unappealing. Because surely, a new City without history, without an established culture, or relevance in the brand space of the New Yorks, Londons and Berlins of this world, cannot be considered a real city. Or can it? Read more

Apr

City as Laboratory for Alternative Urban Research and Practice

Categories: Africa and the Middle East, Arts and Culture, Asia and the Pacific, People, UK

Tags: cc, education, events

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by William Hunter

The current landscape of cities is that of contested processes, interdependencies and relations which are dominated by diverse actors with contrasting agendas. To engage in this arena, a critical re-appraisal is required concerning a new paradigmatic shift in the practice of Architecture and Urban Design. Read more

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