Category: urban and regional planning

  • Intergroup Monopoly, game to explore the dynamics of group-based inequality

    Intergroup Monopoly (created by Richard Harvey, shared by Vanessa Woods) Intergroup Monopoly is an action teaching game that modifies the classic Monopoly board game to explore the dynamics of group-based inequality. In Intergroup Monopoly, players begin with unequal amounts of money and are given individualized rules that reflect differing degrees of privilege or disadvantage. For…

  • Urban sprawl and identity. The case of post war Madrid (In Spanish)

    This article,  see Original source, reflect on the urban spraw of Madrid in teh context after the civil war in Spain, and how neighbor municipalities were adhered to the capital and lost their identity due to political and belic reasons. Indeed, today Madrid center consists of only one municipality, compared to, for instance, Copenhagen, where the city centre counts with different ones, so called kommune.…

  • “The Future of Cities”, documentary

    <p><a href=”https://vimeo.com/195304295″>The Future of Cities</a> from <a href=”https://vimeo.com/ohboyson”>Oscar Boyson</a> on <a href=”https://vimeo.com”>Vimeo</a&gt;.</p>  

  • “Why we bike?” Documentary

    To the Dutch, cycling is as normal as breathing. We don’t think about it, we just do it. Perhaps the fact that we don’t think about it, is the key to the bicycle’s success in this country. But because we do not give cycling a second thought, we don’t really know what the deeper needs…

  • Rush Hour, a documentary on “hypercommuters” today

    Rush Hour Synopsis: A feature documentary about the odyssey involved in commuting to and from work in three large contemporary cities: Los Angeles, Istanbul and Mexico City. Rush Hour is an intimate approach to the personal stories of three commuters who spend hours of their lives going from home to work and back, reflection a…

  • “City, Street and Citizen The Measure of the Ordinary” by Suzanne Hall

    How can we learn from a multicultural society if we don’t know how to recognise it? The contemporary city is more than ever a space for the intense convergence of diverse individuals who shift in and out of its urban terrains. The city street is perhaps the most prosaic of the city’s public parts, allowing…

  • France Plans an Extreme Makeover for Struggling Small Cities

    FEARGUS O’SULLIVAN MAY 2, 2018                        Source: CityLab Action Coeur de Ville aims to undo the damage of urban sprawl in more than 200 city centers across the country. France’s city centers are about to get one of the biggest makeovers in their history. Following…

  • “The last street”, documentary on the effects of mass tourism in Barcelona

    In Barcelona, the remains of the old city enters the Mediterranean like a wedge between the urban beach and the new harbour, resisting in its own way the attacks of real estate development. The sailor-spirited streets of La Barceloneta lie beneath the shadow cast by apartments where you can still see clothes hanging in the…

  • Falowiec: landscape of communism in Gdansk, Poland.

    I have recently been walking around “Falowiec” (form the Polish word fala, wave; plural: falowce) in Gdansk, the longest building in Europe. It is a block of flats characterised by its length and wavy shape. This type of building was built in Poland in the late 1960s and 1970s in the Polish city of GdaÅ„sk,…