Jeddah Waterfront, Jan 2021 How can we create safe public/green spaces for women? What are the considerations and guidelines? This was the prompt I was asked to respond to this morning in a dialogue session on public spaces in cities. It was a super fun session to be part of and I learnt a lot …
… on Sustainable Cities of course! Thank you Voices of Future Generations for the chance to write for a younger audience… thoroughly enjoyed the experience and received some heartwarming feedback. The piece is here… excerpt below… What if our Cities did not compete with Nature, and instead integrated with it? What if our Cities had …
I had the honor of attending and speaking at the Meeting of the Minds Annual Summit in Cleveland two weeks ago. The event revolved around themes related to smart and sustainable cities and the digital economy and occurred amidst global debate on controversial data-driven projects like this one. I have to confess that I usually …
I have often been on the receiving end of this question, and I usually end up providing a long-winded response with several examples to make the point that we do lots of very exciting things that are constantly evolving! Since the last post was a view on planning in general, I thought it would be interesting …
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