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The 15-Minute City: A Feminist Utopia?
15-minute city / Feminist City / feminist mobility / Women Mobilize Women On June 17th I had the pleasure of launching the TUMI2022 Annual Conference with a Petit-Déjeuner hosted by Women Mobilize Women, including a short presentation of my recent publication, The 15-Minute City: A Feminist Utopia?
Space Reclamation: The CROW ‘Design Manual for Bicycle Traffic’ as a Counterweight to Car Space
How are the Covid-19 pandemic, and its crisis of 'unsustainable immobility', connected to a 40-year old bible of sustainable mobility? The answer lies in the simple fact that the novel Coronavirus has created, at a stroke, a lobby as large as every pedestrian and cyclist in the world, all demanding 1.5m of space to walk and cycle in.
Petra rocks as Jordan rolls: in stunning, laid back history
The ancient city of Petra is worthy of its bucket list ranking fame, but Jordan has a whole lot more to offer as well. Jordan is, for the average tourist, a long driveway to the millennial beauty of Petra. However, just as restaurants in France have to try that much harder to attract attention if they’re outside of Paris, so Jordan amply rewards the visitor for straying from the Middle East’s high-volume destinations.
Cape Town’s Anti-Apartheid Urban Plan
The cumulative impact of these improvements will be more than symbolic: Although apartheid configurations of space haven’t changed — people still live where they live — the configurations of time are shifting. Citizens who once spent the greater part of their non-working hours on expensive, slow, unreliable and often dangerous commutes will now gain more time with their families and travel in comfort and safety to job-rich areas.
Struggle leader’s open letter to Jacob Zuma: “Resign!”
One of the greats of the struggle against Apartheid, Reverend Canon Barney Pityana, has written an open letter solemnly requesting that President Jacob Zuma resign from public office: AN OPEN LETTER ON THE STATE OF THE NATION I write this letter with a simple request: that you resign from all public office, especially that of President and Head of State of the Republic of South Africa.
FUTURE CAPE TOWN | African architecture and the future African city - A review of the Design Africa symposium
Angela Mingas, an architect working in the unique and rapidly-developing city of Luanda – the world’s largest lusophone capital – recapped her earlier talk on the musseques of Angola. Mingas referred to the influential French-language work of philosophy, Bantu Philosophy, to explain how she came to terms with the gulf between her own experience and those of ordinary Angolans, and how this translated into space.
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