I had the pleasure of attending the Cities of the Arab World conference at Michigan State University last week. I have to admit I wasn’t sure what to expect, given it was the first academic conference I’ve attended in a long time. What I found particularly valuable was the interdisciplinary nature of the conference, with …
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April has been an exciting month for Resilience. The first resilience strategies for the Middle East (Byblos, Lebanon) and Europe (Vejle, Denmark) were released – well done, Byblos, Vejle, and Arup! There were also very interesting updates from other cities on the journey: New York published its first resilience progress report, and Pittsburgh’s Chief Resilience Officer (CRO), Grant Ervin, …
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I had the pleasure of visiting Barcelona a few weeks ago as part of an urban planning field trip organised by UCL. That translated into many, many hours of walking around the less-touristy areas of the city, and the opportunity to hear firsthand from local planning experts from academia, government, and civil society. There is so …
I had the pleasure of attending the MESL conference this week. There was one message which came across loud and clear: we need to do better, particularly in the Middle East, when it comes to designing landscapes with place in mind. As Dr. James Hitchmough bluntly put it, landscapes in the Middle East are being designed based …