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Social Cities of Tomorrow is organised by The Mobile City (an international research group on mobile media and urban design), Virtueel Platform (the Dutch e-culture knowledge institute), and ARCAM (the Amsterdam Centre for Architecture). Partners
International conference & workshop in Amsterdam, the Netherlands Conference: 17 February 2012
Our everyday lives are increasingly shaped by digital media technologies, from smart cards and intelligent GPS systems to social media and smartphones. How can... (read more here on: http://evolutionarycities.com/2011/11/28/announcing-feb-2012-event-social-cities-of-tomorrow/
Via Jandira Feijó 
As cities are facing growing demands and shrinking resources, they have to find new ways of solving problems. Via Jandira Feijó 'The goal is a safe, healthy, just world, clean air, soil and power, that is elegantly enjoyed.'
Watch this truly inspiring keynote address from Cradle to Cradle author William McDonough at the Award Ceremony of the 2011 Postcode Lottery Green Challenge.... Via Anne Caspari 
David highlights the many practices and initiatives underway in the urban commons, representing a potential paradigm shift on the horizon for our future cities..
If we want to preserve what's still left of the natural world, we need to stop using so much of it. And cities are the best chance we have left for a sustainable future ... but only if they remain vibrant, dynamic spaces that are unfolded by millions of people working together—and not by master plans and planners. What will it take to make our cities truly sustainable?
In a world where the flow of money and jobs and people is largely determined by the whims of global capital, Matt Hern's Common Ground in a Liquid City is afreshingly down-to-earth look at the importance of place in the urban future. Via Anne Caspari 
Adam Guerrero, a high school maths teacher, faced prison for creating a garden that didn't meet outdated planning ordinance laws. The future city is seeing more and more people seeking to shift to local resiliency in the face of a harsh economic climate http://www.grist.org/urban-agriculture/2011-09-20-urban-gardener-memphis this is a real victory for everyday citizen. Alongside the natural benefits of maintaining and growing life in our backyards, Guerrero saw the benefits it could have to his pupils also. This is good news indeed for Guerrero's garden, the urban agriculture movement and future generations!
"I see many great problems in our city and society ... I have taken it upon myself to make what little contribution I can. If I can provide a sense of stability for some young men, I will. It may not be ALL young men, but the [ones] I work with [are] enabled and empowered, and that's the point." ~ Adam Guerrero
Thanks to Guerrero for fighting his corner and the social media for forcing the judge to have a little re-think! 
The 21st century will not be dominated by America or China, Brazil or India, but by the city. In an age that appears increasingly unmanageable, cities rather than states are becoming the islands of governance on which the future world order will be built. This new world is not -- and will not be -- one global village, so much as a network of different ones. 
TIME explores the evolving, deep-rooted connections between technology and ever expanding cities — from education and energy to government, health care and transportation
An excellent Concise article by Jay Walljasper introducing the Transition Towns movement as an example of Commoning!
The Influence of Cradle to Cradle Continues to spread... Maybe the cuts in England will force an opening for creative solutions to emerge... Will councils support councillors like Michael Gray to champion C2C Initiatives?...
http://www.ted.com How can architects build a new world of sustainable beauty? By learning from nature. At TEDSalon in London, Michael Pawlyn describes three habits of nature that could transform architecture and society: radical resource efficiency, closed loops, and drawing energy from the sun.
Very interesting....
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People Oriented City Planning as Strategy - Liveable cities for the 21st Century 
A new generation of apps make life easier for urban planners and urban dwellers... Via Domenico Di Siena
Interior and Exterior
The Evolution of Consciousness is nothing short of the evolution of everything we experience on the gross and subtle planes. Biological evolution is not separate from this. For it is the nucleus (governing center of consciousness) of any sentient holon that dictates the *use of resources* of that holon thus altering the structural landscape of its matter-energy composition irrevocably. Mind and matter are but the interior and exterior of a single unfolding. (Leo Marrs) Via Anne Caspari 
In the future "living" buildings biologically programmed to extract carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere could fill our cities. 
Lowenhaupt gave a talk at the MIT PlanningTech Conference on April 8 at which he outlined why NYC planners should regard the TLDs as a critical tool for shaping the city in the future – equivalent in long-term significance to the Commissioners’ Plan of 1811 that established the Manhattan street grid north of Houston Street. The city-TLD essentially functions as the city’s cyber-grid, he said. Why should that infrastructure be transferred or sold to private companies as if there were no structural, long-term public interests? 
Metropolis examines contemporary life through design--architecture, interior design, product design, graphic design, crafts, planning, and preservation.
About Tactical Urbanism
Do you remember this?.. http://www.shareable.net/blog/how-to-be-an-urban-change-agent-shareable-style
Here is a follow up on tactical urbanism via a promotion of DreamHamar’s online workshop on the topic:
http://www.dreamhamar.org/2011/09/about-tactical-urbanism/
This short post gives insight into how the citizen led approach to urban renewal is leading us:
1. towards a new paradigm of urban development; and In the process of that transformation, 2. the actioning of tactical urbanism is being perceived as less activist-like and more accepted by public officials as a means to address shortcomings in the renewal process of urban spaces. 
There's a movement – or two, or many – under foot. It goes by myriad names and comes in an array colors.
Ha asserts his conjecture through his exhibition “Differential Life Integral City: Collective Intelligence Urbanism,” currently ...
William McDonough gives a must see presentation showing that if design is an indication of intention then we have only the worst of intentions for humanity, life and the planet.
Seeing the practical and rational things being done by McDonough and others, and seeing them being done on the grandest scale, is guaranteed to fill anyone with hope. 
... a rapid form of integration that is spreading like a virus – maybe even an intelligent virus? Filed under: Uncategorized ...
Art of Hosting used in conference on creating RESILIENT Cities and Communities...
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