Thanks again Andres. Hope to run into you somewhere soon.

Thanks Andres. Also for the LinkedIn post. Quite a lot to do still; but this piece was interesting for me while on sabbatical and visiting POLIMO for 4 months. I learned so much from Stefano, Simonetta, and also a Brazilian researcher from Sao Paolo, Eduardo Nobre. We are working together.

#Green #cities can become oddly genteel: all campuses, cafés and climate slogans, with too little thought for where things are made, stored or repaired. In European Planning Studies, Stefano Di Vita & @yonnd.bsky.social argue that net zero needs blue-collar #urbanism too.
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Planning for Locally Embedded Economies in the Productive City Thematic Issue, Vol 10 (2025)

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Future Urban Sustainability: Lessons Learnt From the SDGs and Perspectives for a Post-2030 Agenda Thematic Issue, Vol 10 (2025)

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#rpos #gender #equality #institutionalism #intersectionality #cee #openaccess | Cogitatio Press Our newest issue explores the experiences of European Research Performing Organisations (#RPOs) in designing and implementing #Gender Equality Plans. To address the complexities of gender #equality, t...

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Public Urban Cultures of Care Thematic Issue, Vol 10 (2025)

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🌍📢 Call for Papers!! Urban Studies seeks submissions for a special issue on Climate Urbanism, Resilience & Justice — exploring how cities confront the climate crisis, risk, & inequality. @urbanstudiesjournal.com @acuto.bsky.social
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The Role of Participatory Planning and Design in Addressing the UN Sustainable Development Goals Thematic Issue, Vol 10 (2025)

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Chuck Mangione, ‘Smooth Jazz’ Hitmaker With a Fluegelhorn, Dies at 84

Doesn’t ‘feel so good’ today — but what a great one.
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The Role of Planning in ‘Anti-Democratic’ Times Thematic Issue, Vol 10 (2025)

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In Curitiba’s Rapid Bus Rapid Transit system this week, the world’s best and most famous. A real achievement: easy, safe, comprehensive, affordable— but also competing with Uber.

Place-Shaping Through and With Time: Urban Planning as a Temporal Art and Social Science Thematic Issue, Vol 10 (2025)

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The Role of Participatory Planning and Design in Addressing the UN Sustainable Development Goals Thematic Issue, Vol 10 (2025)

Hot off the press! Our new open access issue explores how participatory approaches advance UN SDGs, tackling urban challenges and advocating for transformative governance shifts.

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# Tacoma is striving to pick up its pace of housing growth. The City hopes newly enact multiplex zoning while help it hit 325,000 residents in a few decades tim…

Social Housing Proposition 1A Prevails, Gains 20-Point Lead in Thursday Count - The Urbanist # Proposition 1A has won the special election to decide the fate of social housing in Seattle. After leading by 15 points on election night, Prop 1A continued to expand its lead in subsequent ballot c...

26 points is set to be the final winning margin for the social housing measure Proposition 1A. With nearly all ballots accounted for, it's 63% to 37%. A decisive victory. Background: www.theurbanist.org/2025/02/13/s...

Huge turnout to protest the abuses of the Trump administration and save the civil service in downtown Seattle. Thousands in attendance.

AI for and in Urban Planning Thematic Issue, Vol 10 (2025)

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Remembering today of all days the 34 year old better angel of our nature.

CP Nelson says members should oppose Strauss's motion. "This is an economic development bill with a land use element," she says. "What is motivating me is the fact that small industrial businesses need more space in Seattle."

She says 2-3 "makers" businesses leave Seattle every month.

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New York’s Congestion Pricing Program Starts Without Hiccups The tolling program, the first of its kind in the country, will face its first big test with rush hour traffic on Monday morning. The new fees are intended to push more people to use trains and buses,...

Years and years and years lecturing on London; now, finally, a big US case to consider. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/01...

Planning, Manufacturing, and Sustainability: Three Research Themes | Editorial | Urban Planning Yonn Dierwechter, Mark Pendras

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Urban In/Formalities: How Arrival Infrastructures Shape Newcomers’ Access To Resources Thematic Issue, Vol 9 (2024)

How do newcomers navigate the challenges of arriving in a new place?

Our new open access issue explores the creative ways migrants and residents work together, often blurring the lines between formal and informal systems, to build connections and access resources.

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Less interesting here claim is the planning and design theory than a (former) society with”…talented local authority surveyors, solicitors and architects who knew how to get things done and who took the idea of public service seriously.”

Want to imagine the city of the future? Try Milton Keynes As the government draws up plans for a new town of some 300,000 people between Oxford and Cambridge, it would be wise if it abandoned its narrow defin...

The government says it wants to build ‘beautiful’ architecture. But what does that really mean?
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Children’s Wellbeing in the Post-Pandemic City: Design, Planning, and Policy Challenges Thematic Issue, Vol 9 (2024)

Why aren't cities designed for kids?

Our new open access issue explores how cities can be made more child-friendly, considering factors like safe mobility, accessible play spaces, and connection with nature.

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