Tag: urban

  • 84 – How Cities Can Transform Democracy

    84 – How Cities Can Transform Democracy

    Rediscovering Urban PoliticsĀ  This talk by Ross Beveridge and Philippe Koch provides a novel way of thinking about the relationship between democracy and the urban based on two main arguments. First, across the globe claims for and forms of urban collective self-rule signal that the city retains democratic significance in a very specific sense: as…

  • 83 – Book Presentation:  Dithering for the Common Good

    83 – Book Presentation: Dithering for the Common Good

    Productive Misunderstandings in Cooperative Urban Development This is a new episode from our Think&Drink series in collaboration with the Georg-Simmel-Centre for Urban Studies and the Humboldt University Berlin. Co-operative urban development is the buzzword of the moment. It stands for the pursuit of a fairer city that is orientated towards the common good. In new…

  • Episode 74 – In Conversation with Jean-David Gerber (The Urban Lives of Property Series III)

    Episode 74 – In Conversation with Jean-David Gerber (The Urban Lives of Property Series III)

    This episode of the Urban Lives of Property Series expands discussions geographically and conceptually: Our guest in this episode, Jean-David Gerber, helps us think property from Switzerland and other places. Starting off with the observation that there is no single understanding of property, Jean-David argues that it is important for any consideration to be context-specific…

  • Episode 73 – The Far Right and the City

    Episode 73 – The Far Right and the City

    Tune in for our new episode on the far-right and the city! In this discussion, members of the Terra-R (Territorialisations of the Radical Right) network examine the developments of the radical right in Germany beyond simplistic urban-rural and East-West attributions, and outline the current and future challenges for academia and civil society alike. The aim…