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A Decade of Connect Karo: Advancing Urban Development, Food Security, Climate Resilience and Electric Mobility

The City Fix

Since 2013, WRI India’s annual flagship event, Connect Karo, has served as a platform for facilitating dialogue between policymakers, experts. Join us July 17-18 for Connect Karo 2023 at the India Habitat Centre, New Delhi. Register now and review the agenda.

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Whatever happened to planning when it comes to civic assets, public facilities, revitalization?

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

This might be a way to amp up the planning function.

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Gaps in Parks Master Planning, Part Six | Art(s) in the Park(s) as a comprehensive program

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

and socially engaged, and/or sustainable visual art-based practices, and in a park setting, manipulation of park equipment and facilities Performing Arts : including dance, theater (new theatrical work, playwriting), music (popular, jazz, opera, classical, etc.) Exhibit: The Landscape Architecture Legacy of Dan Kiley.

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Gaps in Parks Master Planning, Part Six | Art(s) in the Park(s) as a comprehensive program

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

and socially engaged, and/or sustainable visual art-based practices, and in a park setting, manipulation of park equipment and facilities Performing Arts : including dance, theater (new theatrical work, playwriting), music (popular, jazz, opera, classical, etc.) Movie night in Laird Park, a neighborhood park in Salt Lake City.

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The unintended consequences of converting office buildings to housing: the need for public safety; schools; amenities

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

sustainable mobility. But these kinds of efforts are often criticized as inequitable ( Marketing Schools, Marketing Cities: Who Wins and Who Loses When Schools Become Urban Amenities , Maia Bloomfield Cucchiara, 2013). In general, people don't want schools to be bad. Transit, walking, biking, car share need to be viable options.