How to think cities anew? When what we are seeing are not new Londons, Parises, New-Yorks or even Tokyos growing, we need to start re-thinking what urbanization and urbanism is about. Read more
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SepImportant phase finalized in the Cape Town Civic Network study
Categories: Announcements, MAIN NEWS, NEWS: General, NEWS: MOVE Cape Town CIVNET Study, NEWS: MOVE Project
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Recently our MOVE project concluded a major research phase in the Cape Town Civic Network Study about citizen associations, the urban environment and local democracy. With our diverse and multi-lingual field-work team at Read more
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SepGreat PhD course on ‘Urban Ecology as Science, Culture and Power’
Categories: Deliverables, NEWS: PhD Course Urban Ecology as Science, Culture and Power, NEWS: PhD Courses, Teaching
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Integrated with our book workshop on ‘Grounding Urban Natures’ we also had the great opportunity to run a PhD course on ‘Urban Ecology as Science, Culture and Power‘ from 10-14 June in Read more
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SepGrounding Urban Natures – report from June book workshop in Stockholm
Categories: MAIN NEWS, NEWS: General, NEWS: Grounding Urban Natures Book Project, NEWS: Ways of Knowing Urban Ecologies, Publications
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The book project on ‘Contested Urban Natures’ (and here) with case studies across the world is moving forward. We had a great workshop in June with the authors. The workshop was integrated with Read more
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SepRoyal Geography Society conference 2013
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Jonathan Silver co-organised and presented a paper at three linked sessions on ‘The contested politics of urban electricity networks: Insights from urban infrastructure studies’ This included a number of papers Read more
09
AugJust Sustainabilities—A new book by Julian Agyeman
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A new book is out from Julian Agyeman that should be of interest to a broad audience, from urban sociologists, geographers, planners and activists, and their combinations! Read more here. Introducing Read more
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JulSpecial Issue of Local Environment
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Jonathan Silver has co-edited a special issue of the journal Local Environment: ‘Urban vulnerability, adaptation and resilience: analysing the lessons from UN-Habitats CCCI’ including a paper on ‘Climate change, urban vulnerability Read more
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Mary Lawhon has produced a book review for the geography journal Antipode for the forthcoming book Afropolis: City/Media/Art which has been formed as a catalogue for the travelling exhibition. The exhibition is Read more
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JulAAG 2013 :: Great work by WOK-UE project in April!
Categories: Announcements, Deliverables, MAIN NEWS, NEWS: Ways of Knowing Urban Ecologies, Publications
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The AAG 2013 was a great conference. Huge as always—we heard that some 7000 geographers were walking around in the big downtown LA hotels were the conference was held in Read more
Alternative campaigning in Cape Town’s 2011 municipal elections
By Jonathan Silver What do communities do if politician after politician fails to deliver their election promises of new homes, electricity supply or clean water. In 2011 I joined activists Read more