Toomas Trapido, a member of the Estonian parliament, sat down with Rainer Nõlvak, an information technology entrepreneur and then-chairman of the Estonian Fund for Nature, to discuss collaborating on environmental projects.
In July of 2006, researcher and consultant Mari Gallagher published a groundbreaking report, Examining the Impact of Food Deserts on Public Health in Chicago, in which she coined the term “food desert.”
Cary Fowler collects seeds. “Most people don’t think about this, but our agricultural crops are on the frontlines of climate change and will be the first to be affected,” says Fowler, president of the Global Diversity Crop Trust.
Cool has a new meaning for suit-wearing Japanese businessmen. Tradition dictates formal attire and darker suits have been the norm, even during hot, humid summers.
About 827 million people live in slums worldwide. Yet investments focused on water sanitation and infrastructure do little to mark a visual change in the community.
Some assumed public-works officials had placed them there for tree maintenance, but others soon discovered their true purpose. Stenciled on the structures in a militaristic style was the Web address of an organization calling itself Heavy Trash
The Iron Curtain was a political, economic, ideological, physical, and cultural divide that separated Eastern and Western Europe throughout the cold war.
Designed and researched by the Center for Urban Pedagogy, a New York-based nonprofit, City Without a Ghetto examined the urban-renewal programs of the ’50s and ’60s and their effects on the American city.
For Patrick Rhodes, who founded Project Locus, a nonprofit dedicated to bringing design to underserved neighborhoods, a simple act of kindness would become the catalyst for providing temporary shelter for hundreds of homeless throughout Baltimore.
Many community design centers are eager to engage in design/build projects in their cities, but often land is either too costly or too far from the population the center is mandated to reach.
In 1997 a group of humanitarian aid agencies collaborated to create a set of standards for disaster response, aiming to improve quality and enhance accountability.
The Housing for Health project began when an interdisciplinary team realized that health services alone were not improving the welfare of some 3,000 aboriginal peoples living in remote communities in central Australia.
In 1997 architect Dr. Tom Corsellis, whose background included field work with aid organizations such as CARE and UNHCR, teamed with a group of researchers to rethink the way emergency shelter was designed and implemented.
The United States leads the world in the number of people incarcerated. During the 1990s a movement began to address the issues that lead to high recidivism rates.
In this article, excerpted from “Curitiba: Story of a City,” writer Bill McKibben reflects on how Lerner’s small but targeted changes have made the city an international model of people-friendly planning and design.
In this article, excerpted from “Curitiba: Story of a City,” writer Bill McKibben reflects on how Lerner’s small but targeted changes have made the city an international model of people-friendly planning and design.