Cities Today According to the UN: half of humanity – 3.5 billion people – lives in cities today. By 2030, almost 60 per cent of the world’s population will live in urban areas. 95 per cent of urban expansion in…
EXPO Milano 2015 – So, What is it all about?
EXPO Milano 2015 – So, What is it all about? Feeding the Planet, Energy for Life is the core theme of Expo Milano 2015: “Food as nourishment Food as pleasure Food as taste Food as home Food as family Food…
The First Edible Schoolyard in New York
The Arturo Toscanini School in Gravesend, Brooklyn transformed part of the existing parking into an educational organic vegetable and fruit garden. The project, completed in 2014, by WORKac includes three major components: a vegetable and fruit garden, a green house…
7th World Urban Forum by UN-HABITAT
The 7th World Urban Forum (WUF) will take place in the city of Medellin, in Colombia from 5 to 11 April 2014. It is the World’s Premier Conference on Cities, a non-legislative technical forum organized by the United Nations Human…
The Pet Lamps and Indeginous People
(This post is part of the project: “The Social Impact of Milan Design Week 2013″). Background It was in summer 2011 that Hélène Le Drogou, a psychologist and activist concerned with the plastic waste of the Colombian Amazon, invited the…
EGO vs ECO
NO COMMENT – 2013 Image: Courtesy of urbanreforestation.com
La Cuccagna Project: A Farmhouse in the Centre of Milan
Cascina Cuccagna is the name of the XVIIth century farmhouse in the centre of Milan that creates exchange opportunities for people from different generations and cultures. It is a bottom-up project dedicated to culture, environment, food and social interactions. THE…
Who is ruling our travels?
August, vacation time for antonomasia, inspired me for a series of considerations about Travel and Tourism. I love to travel, most of the people do! This makes us consumers of one of the world’s biggest industries: Tourism. For many…
Fog Catching
The human body contains from 55% to 78% water. To function properly, the body requires between one and seven litres of water per day to avoid dehydration. Globally, one every five person doesn’t have access to clean drinking water.…
World’s most livable cities 2011
The “world’s most livable cities” is an informal name given to any list of cities as they rank on a reputable annual survey of living conditions. The three most prestigious are, the Mercer’s Quality of Living Survey, The Economist‘s World’s Most Livable Cities (using…
The Urban Physic Garden
The Union Street Urban Orchard is created by The Architecture Foundation, Bankside Open Spaces Trust, ProjectARKs and the Wayward Plant Registry. This summer they will transform a derelict site, 100 Union Street-Southwark-London, into the Urban Physic Garden, a pop-up community built…