When it comes to urban development, the new word on everyone’s lips, in tandem with resilience, is adaptation. As the vulnerability of cities to the effects of climate change increases,…
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Over the past two decades, the arrival of big businesses has been a driver of gentrification processes, most noted with tech companies established since the dot-com boom in large urban…
Denver residents respond to ink!’s cavalier marketing campaign, reminding us that collective action, not individual consumption, is the way forward in staking out rights to the city. Happily Gentrifying? I…
We stood in one of the main plazas of Trung Hoa Nhan Chinh, a new urban area in Hanoi. The plaza was lined with fancy restaurants offering food from around…
Ever since the 1992 Olympic Games put Barcelona on the map, the exponential growth of tourism has moved hand in glove with the explosion of gentrification across the city. Overnight…
For over a decade now, the greening of cities has been touted as an essential strategy in the quest for urban sustainability. Indeed, urban greening has demonstrated benefits on health,…
When Hurricane Harvey displaced 30,000 people in Houston in August 2017, it became the latest warning sign that there are serious limitations to the urban sustainability and resilience movements. In…
In many large cities around the world, the public and private investors that promote the environmental, socio-economic and health benefits of urban greening projects hide the often highly inequitable outcomes…
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