NextDrop
Thema: Improving access to water for poor families. Beschreibung: Get an SMS to know: When you’re getting water. When there’s a delay in your supply. When a pipe damage might affect you. When someone in your community provides water updates. NextDrop is a tech start-up transforming the world’s urban water systems. Everyday, they send citizens … Weiterlesen
Living Innovation Zones
Thema: Urban innovation. Beschreibung: San Francisco is home to some of the most dynamic people, institutions and corporations on the planet. Its culture celebrates human capital, new modes of thinking, creative expression and a DIY spirit. Yet, walking around the city’s public spaces, there are few monuments or physical expressions of the economic and technological … Weiterlesen
Spread the Word Campaign
Thema: Opening a library in every homeless shelter. Beschreibung: The Spread the Word Campaign aims to introduce libraries in homeless shelters across London, restoring faith and rebuilding lives through literature. The idea is to get people to donate a book that has influenced them personally to their local homeless shelter. Instead of just providing homeless … Weiterlesen
GreaterPlaces
Thema: A community for urban design. Beschreibung: Cities all over the world are inviting the public to the community design table. We think everyone should come inspired and equipped with great ideas and solutions for the shared spaces in our communities. GreaterPlaces is for everyone involved in shaping a community. Throughout the Spring of 2014, … Weiterlesen
Museum of Reclaimed Urban Space
Thema: A volunteer-run small history museum of grassroots activism. Beschreibung: This is a story told of efforts to create community spaces on the Lower East Side, especially efforts that “reclaim” space that has been taken over by city bureaucracies or corporations. The political implications of how social structures shape and control our space and take … Weiterlesen
#FairTuesday
Thema: #FairTuesday is an ethical shopping initiative created in response to Black Friday and Cyber Monday. Beschreibung: #FairTuesday is to inspire conscious consumerism and show how an everyday purchase can change lives in a whole community. #FairTuesday features fair trade, ethical, and eco-friendly brands and invites other businesses to take a step towards sustainability. Ort: … Weiterlesen
RAAHGIRI DAY
Thema: A weekly street event which provides citizens with the opportunity to reclaim their streets, connect with their community, celebrate their city and therefore reclaim their lives. Beschreibung: In a quest to make Gurgaon accessible for its residents and encourage the use of cycling, walking and public transport in the city, organizations and activists of … Weiterlesen
Hantz Woodlands
Thema: World’s largest Urban Farm planned for the City of Detroit. Beschreibung: Picture oaks, maples, and other high value trees planted in straight, evenly spaced rows. Grass between rows of trees will be mowed regularly, and flowering trees will be planted between streets and sidewalks to create a breathtaking place of beauty each spring and … Weiterlesen
HOME GR/OWN Milwaukee
Thema: Transforming Milwaukee’s Vacant Lots Into A New Agricultural Economy. Beschreibung: HOME GR/OWN Milwaukee empowers residents to transform neighborhoods by re-purposing foreclosed properties into community assets that spark new economic opportunities around local, healthy food production and distribution. It addresses two critical issues facing some of Milwaukee’s most vulnerable neighborhoods: foreclosures, vacant lots and limited … Weiterlesen
MyCiTi Cape Town
Thema: Urban transformation. Beschreibung: The Cape Town Integrated Rapid Transit (IRT) system, MyCiTi, is a bold initiative to transform the public transport sector by dramatically improving the customer’s experience thereof. This initiative will seek to integrate all of the current transport modal options into a coherent package. Among the modes to be integrated are: Metrorail … Weiterlesen
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