Built Environment

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  • The cities we need: Essential stories of everyday places with Gabrielle Bendiner-Viani

    The cities we need: Essential stories of everyday places with Gabrielle Bendiner-Viani

  • The Pointillistic City: Well-being and equity in communities and their places with Dan O’Brien

    The Pointillistic City: Well-being and equity in communities and their places with Dan O’Brien

  • How the liberal city paved the way to neoliberalism

    How the liberal city paved the way to neoliberalism

  • Public Everyday Space: Cultural Politics in Neoliberal Barcelona with Megan Saltzman

    Public Everyday Space: Cultural Politics in Neoliberal Barcelona with Megan Saltzman

  • “No tariffs on sharing”: Tool Libraries offer resilience amid federal chaos

    “No tariffs on sharing”: Tool Libraries offer resilience amid federal chaos

  • Cross-pollinating resistance to the tech economy – an excerpt from Defying Displacement

    Cross-pollinating resistance to the tech economy – an excerpt from Defying Displacement

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  • New toolkit from Shareable will help you start (and grow) a Library of Things in YOUR community

    Libraries of Things (often referred to as LoTs) are community hubs that facilitate the sharing of a wide range of items. Operating on the familiar model of a…

  • How to negotiate a Community Benefits Agreement

    This how to guide is reposted from PowerSwitch Action’s “Community Benefits Agreements” policy toolkit. The toolkit and additional resources can be found here. A Community Benefits Agreement or…

  • How to free the soil by depaving

    How much thought do you give to pavement? Our cities are covered with it, but it’s not exactly a hot topic of conversation (though it should be!) Pavement…

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