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Letter from the Chair

Tony Reddy AoU discusses how the Academy, and urbanism as a whole, can respond to Covid-19 and other significant challenges

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Urbanists declare?

David Rudlin AoU sets out why we need urbanists to declare a climate emergency and what the declaration should be

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Communities have climate solutions. Now cities must let them thrive

Francis Clay looks at urban community interventions in sustainability in the global south
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Creating an urban design response to the climate emergency

Lorenza Casini AoU and Helen Grimshaw explain how urban designers can best respond to the climate emergency
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Solving the wicked problem of our times

Ina Dimireva AoU argues that the fight against the climate emergency requires a culture change
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Fit for the future: A more sustainable heritage sector

Heritage Declares sets out an agenda for reducing, mitigating and preventing the negative environmental impacts of human activity
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Planning Under Emergency

Charlie McNelly, Floriane Ortega and Hannah Yu Pearson explain how local authorities can meet ambitious carbon neutrality targets
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Living with water and heat: Climate Ready Boston

Kathryn Firth AoU reports on what other cities might learn from an initiative to prepare Boston for the impacts of climate change
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In the 2020s we need to scale or fail

As climate conditions will only grow more severe, our response needs to be greater than anything previously imagined, says Karl Limbert AoU
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The climate movement cannot risk losing supporters

The more extreme the environmental movement becomes the less likely they are to win the necessary support, argues The Urban Idiot
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Another big road for Ireland’s Carmageddon

Frank McDonald AoU discusses controversial plans for a major bypass in Galway
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Why cohousing is so popular in Denmark

Torben Brandi Nielsen AoU looks at how co-housing can better meet the needs of families
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Phoenix city: Lessons from Liverpool

Ioana Tamas look at what we might learn from the regeneration of Liverpool
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Reinventing town centres: A call for action

The coronavirus pandemic is a major threat to many of our town centres. Nicholas Falk AoU calls for action before it is too late
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What’s growing on the Greenway

Anthony McGuigan shares the story of an engagement project on Connswater Community Greenway
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The price of gentrification for BAME communities

Athiei Ajuong highlights the disproportionate effects of gentrification on migrant and minority groups
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Space for great places

The great places here are an opportunity to share what we love and know about the urban environment
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Imperial War Museum, Duxford

Lucy Cokes, Conservator
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Yorkshire Air Museum, Elvington, York

Gary Hancock, Heritage Manager
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Strensall Common, York

Margaret Atherden, Chair of PLACE
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Bias Ltd, Cold Bath Road, Harrogate

Sally Hindle, Owner
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Glen Estate, Innerleithen

Bronwyn Crowther, School student
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