

Community in a Changing World
Quick Read: The traditional understanding of "community" as a cohesive, place-based group has become outdated and problematic. This...


Building Peace: Linking Place, Memory, and Cultural Heritage
Quick Read: This blog explores the intricate link between cultural heritage, peace-building, and memories of violence embedded in the...


Housing Land & Property Challenges in Gaza & Syria
Author: Frazer Macdonald Hay The UN’s displacement camps and other temporary accommodations are starting to empty as people journey back...


Facing Change Together in Jordan
What a privilege to speak at the Facing Change Conference earlier this month in Jordan.  As soon as I arrived, I realised it wasn’t a...


Everyday Perforations in Peace Processes
No doubt, there are perforations in any peace process. Some are invisible or hard to reach, others hidden beneath political shenanigans...


Building Monuments to Amnesia and Forgetting Where They Put Them.
Is there a civically unhealthy practice of constructing overly politicised nation-building projects after conflict? After each conflict...


There are webinars then there are WEBINARS
This was a Webinar of note. The UCL’s Urban Laboratory held a Webinar called Urbicide and Horizons for City Re-making . An event in...
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Peace is Power [to do what]
Oslo’s Nobel Peace Centre, its façade is draped with the YOKO ONO slogan PEACE is POWER ... perhaps it should have read ‘PEACE is [the]...


Holy Houses & The City
Heads-UP on Friday  What a special initiative to reveal the everyday cultural and social layers of a city through its holy houses. This...


Re-Use Those Once-Significant Buildings
The LocHal is a new, world-class urban living room for Tilburg in an iconic former locomotive shed of the Dutch National Railways. It is...