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‘Friends’ of the Environment
Written by Seth Baum
Television shows like Friends and Seinfeld may have inadvertently been among the best things to have happened to the environment over the last few decades. These shows are not about environmental issues. They don’t cause people to want to be environmentalists – at least not directly. Instead, these American sitcoms, […]
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Did You Know? Facts About Cities
Written by Mario Wiedemann
Facts about cities that show why building a future on sustainable cities is so important. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mI4Cn5EPzHM
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The Self-Culturalisation of the City: On the Transformation of Modern Urbanity in the ‘Creative City’
Written by Mario Wiedemann
“The expression creative city is on everyone‟s lips. If there has been talk of a „Renaissance in cities‟ since the 1990s, then at the interface of political, media and social science debates, this is regularly linked with the concept of the „creative city‟. From the widely discussed revitalisation of Berlin‟s […]
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A review of the main challenges to urban sustainability
Written by Mario Wiedemann
Considering the existential threat that global warming poses to humanity, the current focus on climate change is undoubtedly justified. However, this should not overshadow the fact that sustainable development does not only end with environmental concerns but also covers social and economic domains that are mediated through physical spaces and […]
