By: Eveline Dürr (Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, LMU Munich) and Regine Keller (Department of Landscape Architecture, Technical University of Munich). Download PDF The Urban Environments Initiative (UEI) hosted…
By: Anindya Sinha (Frontier Elephant Programme, National Institute of Advanced Studies, Bangalore India) and Nishant M. Srinivasaiah (Frontier Elephant Programme, National Institute of Advanced Studies, Bangalore India). Download PDF Urbanization…
By: John Burt (Program of Environmental Studies, New York University Abu Dhabi), Mary Killilea (Program of Environmental Studies, New York University ), andAnne Rademacher (Program of Environmental Studies, New York University). Download PDF For the past several years, natural…
By: Rob Gioielli. Blue Ash College, University of Cincinnati. Download PDF Major American cities are defined by their unique form of low-density sprawl. Metropolitan areas extend sixty to seventy kilometers from the city…
By: Avi Sharma. Center for Metropolitan Studies, Technical University Berlin. Download PDF Urban theory began in the second cities of the world. Not New York but Chicago, not London but Manchester, not…
By: Kara Murphy Schlichting. Department of History, Queens College, City University of New York . Download PDF In 2011, Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced that New York City had six boroughs: Manhattan, the Bronx, Brooklyn, Queens, Staten…
By: Joseph Adeniran Adedeji,Department of Architecture, Federal University of Technology, Akure, Nigeria Download PDF What is the city and what forces frame its identity? Developmental mega-city projects can illuminate our understanding and guide a re-thinking…
By: Simone Müller. Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society, LMU Munich Download PDF Send it on a Caribbean Cruise In the 1980s, there were four things a city could do with its urban waste “burn…
By: Dorothee Rummel (Department of Architecture, Technical University of Munich) Download PDF “Urban living can be bad for our physical and mental health?” “City life and its spatial conditions have a…
By: Felix Mauch. Munich Center for Technology in Society, Technical University of Munich. Download PDF In contemporary capitalism, making is inseparable from moving. The world is bound up in supply chains, moving commodities from…