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Seeing It Through Their Eyes: Sparking Public Interest in Urban Planning
Urban planner and communicator Lisa Vlasak shares how empathy, clarity, and creativity can make planning processes more inclusive - and ...
Reclaiming Sacred Ground: How a Forgotten Churchyard Became a Public Space for Play and Belonging
A bold redesign in Wehrheim, Germany, shows how religious spaces can evolve into inclusive, intergenerational places for community life ...
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1 million trees planted in Freetown, Sierra Leone, in just a few years. A new park in Madrid, Spain, with ...
Addressing Environmental Justice in East Birmingham: Firs & Bromford Pocket Park
East Birmingham is a deprived area of the post-industrial city, with over 60 % of people living in the most ...
WUF12: It All Starts at Home – Local Actions for Sustainable Cities and Communities
At WUF12, I look for green spaces and find some surprising blue ones ...
Birdsong and lunch breaks instead of floating yodas
Central London has a very successful new public space ...
