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Showing posts with label urban. Show all posts
Showing posts with label urban. Show all posts
Wednesday, 1 April 2020

The hidden potential of urban horticulture (report)

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The hidden potential of urban horticulture Urban areas offer considerable potential for horticultural food production, but questions rem...
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Sunday, 31 July 2016

Concrete decay destroys infrastructure (online)

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How industrial civilisation is (literally) built on a foundation with an expiry date The main issue is simple: putting in steel reinforc...
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Urban gardens grow food and biodiversity (online)

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Civic pride 'can help sustain urban biodiversity' The establishment of community gardens in inner city areas can boost social a...
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Thursday, 19 May 2016

First UN World Cities Report (report)

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Urbanization and Development: Emerging Futures The analysis of urban development of the past twenty years prese...
Wednesday, 9 July 2014

Connecting cities and oceans (book)

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Blue Urbanism The consequences of our emotional disconnect from oceans have been severe: the marine ecosystems that make up 70% of ou...
Monday, 30 June 2014

Introduction to urban wildlife gardening (online)

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Creating a Healthy Apartment o r Townhouse Even if you live in an apartment, townhouse, or condominium development without much space...
Wednesday, 30 April 2014

Allotments are great for soil quality (journal)

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Urban cultivation in allotments maintains soil qualities adversely affected by conventional agriculture   Maintenance and protection o...
Monday, 31 March 2014

Reslience in peri-urban settings (online)

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Understanding Peri-urban Sustainability: The role of the resilience approach This paper is concerned with how resilience approaches can...

A critique of eco-cities (#journal)

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Eco-urbanism and the Eco-city, or, Denying the Right to the City? This paper critically analyses the construction of eco-cities as tec...
Tuesday, 25 February 2014

Green tenants in the private rented sector (#journal)

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Green tenants: practicing a sustainability ethics for the rental housing sector The shift towards social, government and corporate ethi...

Social practice theory and urban permaculture (#journal)

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‘One city block at a time’: Researching and cultivating green transformations A growing interest in environmental issues within the com...

Sustainability discourse in Cuba (#journal)

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Peasant, Patriot, Environmentalist: Sustainable Development Discourse in Havana Private urban agricultural ventures, initially a sponta...
Thursday, 30 January 2014

Peri-urban agriculture in Lisbon and London (#journal)

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Peri-urban agriculture, social inclusion of migrant population and Right to the City: Practices in Lisbon and London Two main questions a...

An international movement for urban agriculture? (#journal)

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Urban and Peri-Urban Agriculture: Part 4 This article introduces, synthesises, and discusses four articles from four issues of the Journal...
Tuesday, 22 January 2013

Green Cities of Europe (book)

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Green Cities of Europe: Global Lessons on Green Urbanism  In the absence of federal leadership, localities are stepping forward to ad...