The Wiki on Sustainable Just Cities is one of the main resources being produced by UrbanA. It is an ongoing, open-ended online collaborative database and knowledge source. It captures the learning process of the UrbanA Community of Practice and is an important part of UrbanA’s knowledge commons. It includes a database of approaches to just and sustainable cities.
RESOURCES
PODCASTS
Urban Arena Podcasts form a series of critical conversations with activists, entrepreneurs, intellectuals and policy-makers in different European cities who are working, in complimentary and conflicting ways, to create cities that respond to the twin challenges of justice and sustainability.
We want your voice on the pod. If you’d like to be an Urban Arena’s podcast correspondent then please answer the question ‘What is a sustainable and just city?’ in a maximum of 3 minutes. We encourage you to think about urban sustainability and justice together.
Things to keep in mind when recording – choose a quiet place (get in a cupboard, climb under your blanket!); turn off fans, TVs and phones; listen to your recording possibilities (is it better via phone or with mic?).
Send your recording via email to urbana@ceu.edu
This month Kate speaks with Heidi Lindvall from seed stage ClimateTech VC company Pale Blue Dot.
If you’d like to be featured on the UrbanA podcast then please answer the question ‘What is a sustainable and just city?’ in a maximum of 3 minutes. Send your recorded answer to urbana@ceu.edu
This month Kate and Ian take a break from interviewing as Sophia Silverton chats with Isabell Eberlein and Denis Petri from Changing Cities. They talk about the role of participatory actions in trying to bring about more just distributions of urban space. The conversation is framed around the notion of ‘governance arrangements’.
This month we’re joined by Panagiota Kotsila, Isabelle Anguelovski, and Jonathan Luger from the Barcelona Lab for Urban Environmental Justice and Sustainability.
We’re talking about drivers of urban injustice: https://wiki.urban-arena.eu/index.php?title=Database_of_drivers_of_injus…
This month we’re joined by Meera Ghani, ECOLISE Policy Coordinator, and Tamara Steger, Associate Professor at the Department of Environmental Sciences and Policy at Central European University. The topic? Environmental and racial justice.
This month our podcaster Kate McGinn talks with Florian Strenge – an urbanist and UrbanA Fellow fascinated by spaces, people and processes.
Our urban arena podcast correspondent this month is Sophia Silverton, an enviromental governance researcher working with UrbanA.
This month our podcasters Kate McGinn and Ian Cook get lost in the voices of people who have helped sustain, build and critically assess networks that aim to create just and sustainable cities: Matthew Bach, Flor Avelino and Tom Henfrey all three of whom are part of the UrbanA team.
This month our podcaster Kate McGinn is on interview duty while Ian Cook takes a well earned break! Here Kate catches up with UrbanA Fellow Kemo Camara, founder and CEO of Omek, a new digital and physical platform dedicated to the social and professional advancement of the African diaspora community.
This month we’re speaking with Marilyn Hamilton, the founder of Integral City and author of the Integral City book series. This month we also launch a new feature – the Urban Arena podcast correspondent! We want your voice on the pod. If you’d like to featured then please answer the question ‘What is a sustainable and just city?’ in a maximum of 3 minutes. It’s up to you what you put in your message, but we encourage you to think about urban sustainability and justice together. Our first correspondent is Marcelline Bonneau CEO & founder at Resilia Solutions.
This month we’re talking with Panagiota Kotsila, a political ecologist with the Barcelona Lab for Urban Environmental Justice and Sustainability and part of Undisciplined Environments. She talks about ‘Nature-based solutions as discursive tools and contested practices in urban nature’s neoliberalisation processes’.
In this fifth episode, we’re talking with Rafael Calado about FabLabs. Rafael is Programme and Operations Manager at FabLab Lisboa. An architect by trade, he also co-founded Repair Café Lisboa and BioHacking Group Lisboa 2017. Behind the mic our resident podcasters are joined by special guest Lucia Di Paola.
In this fourth episode, we are lucky to speak with Elisabeth Schober, Associate Professor at the Department of Social Anthropology at the University of Oslo. She is the Principle Investigator within the upcoming ‘Ports’ project, which will be funded by the European Research Council under the EU’s Horizon 2020 program.
In this third episode, we discuss the potential of textile recycling as part of a circular economy. We’re lucky to get to speak to Hilde van Duijn from EigenDraads, a Rotterdam based initiative that wants to take our non-reusable clothes and transform them into something new.
In this second episode, we discuss transition management as a governance approach. We travel to a real live urban arena in Rotterdam and meet Derk Loorbach director of UrbanA partner, DRIFT, and Professor of Socio-economic Transitions at the Faculty of Social Science, both at Erasmus University Rotterdam.
In this first episode, we discuss sustainability and justice in food and transport. To help us do so, we are speaking (and cycling around Budapest) with UrbanA fellow Orsolya Lazányi. She is a co-founder of Cargonomia, a Budapest-based community space for locally-produced food and cargo bike rentals.
Videos
The first UrbanA video explores the question of why environmental sustainability and social justice must go hand in hand.
UrbanA Community Conversations: An ongoing series of online conversations about just sustainable cities led by people who are part of the UrbanA Community of Practice
The UrbanA series of 7 videos on enabling governance scenarios for just and sustainable cities. These videos were released in March 2021 to coincide with the Berlin Arena focused on governance.
6 videos of the presentations, interviews and discussion at the ‘Berlin’ Arena event, on Governance Arrangements for Sustainable Just Cities, March 18th & 19th, 2021
The UrbanA series of 10 videos of 10 drivers of urban injustice related to sustainability. These videos were released at June 2020 Barcelona Arena, ‘Justice challenges in urban sustainability’
UrbanA’s open webinars
Two videos that introduce and explain the UrbanA wiki, which is a key tool in UrbanA’s knowledge co-creation and information sharing
A playlist of all UrbanA videos which deal with Covid-19, justice, and sustainability in cities
PUBLICATIONS
2nd UrbanA Arena Convention
Brief Description: The agenda and preparatory materials for the second UrbanA Arena event focusing on ‘Justice Challenges in Urban Sustainability’
Meta-analysis of EU-funded projects
Brief Description: An in-depth and qualitative meta-analysis of 43 projects selected by the UrbanA Consortium as those with the richest focus on issues related to urban injustice.
Insights on Approaches to Sustainable Just Cities
Brief Description: A meta-reflection and insights on working on just sustainable cities that emerged during the mapping phase of UrbanA: what do the approaches and the co-creative process teach us about how to make cities more just and sustainable?
URBANA Wiki Database Report & Appendices
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URBANA City Zine
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URBANA City Zine
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URBANA BROCHURE
Brief Description: A short brochure describing the UrbanA project, its rationale, aims and objectives, partners and how to get involved
URBANA BROCHURE
Brief Description: A short brochure describing the UrbanA project, its rationale, aims and objectives, partners and how to get involved
UrbanA Mapping Guidelines
Brief Description: Guidelines on how to collect and select relevant projects, approaches, and individuals so as to distill and deepen the overview and knowledge that different actors and organizations have harnessed on creating sustainable and just cities
UrbanA Mapping Guidelines
Brief Description: Guidelines on how to collect and select relevant projects, approaches, and individuals so as to distill and deepen the overview and knowledge that different actors and organizations have harnessed on creating sustainable and just cities
URBANA ARENA DESIGN
Brief Description: Guidelines for designing, co-creating and hosting a translocal arena for sustainable and just cities, the UrbanA Arena, including the underlying process methodology
URBANA ARENA DESIGN
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Guidelines for designing, co-creating and hosting a translocal arena for sustainable and just cities, the UrbanA Arena, including the underlying process methodology