Civility and Idealism at CSU’s 2020 Virtual Gala By Bill Millard The online meetings that have replaced professional and social gatherings over the past six months have accustomed people to a certain resigned lassitude, the all-too-familiar “Zoom fatigue.” One could say of the typical Zoom, Skype, or Webex session what Samuel Johnson said of Paradise […]
Post-Pandemic Cities 2020 World Habitat Day Conference in New York City By Maxinne Rhea Leighton, PhD, Assoc. AIA The UN-Habitat’s commitment to a vision of a “better quality of life for all in an urbanizing world” is emboldened by the World Habitat 2020 theme, Housing for All: A Better Urban Future. With the projected increase […]
Cities are at the center of today’s most urgent crisis, the COVID-19 pandemic. This lively dialogue focuses on how the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals now taking place in urban places is so vitally important to the global recovery. As has been observed in the past, successful achievement of 65% of the 169 SDG […]
A Message from the Guangzhou Award Secretariat 2020 marks the beginning of the 5th cycle of the Guangzhou International Award for Urban Innovation (Guangzhou Award). As always, we encourage cities and local governments around the world to share their innovative practices in supporting the local implementation of the SDGs and the New Urban Agenda. Unfortunately, […]
By Rick Bell, FAIA, CSU Board Member On May 26th Daniel Zarrilli, New York City’s Chief Climate Policy Advisor and OneNYC Director said “We are going through an unbelievable trauma during this ongoing COVID-19 crisis” but described how New York City is still focusing on climate-centered aspects of OneNYC as it relates to the current […]
A message from Lance Jay Brown, FAIA, CSU President Second Edition of CSU NEWS It is beyond obvious that the familiar world we knew in 2019 will not be the world we return to in 2021. The Consortium for Sustainable Urbanization (CSU) has long focused on the challenges and opportunities of global urbanization and how […]
by Aliye Pekin Celik, Chair of CSU Board of Directors This publication has the objective of introducing the impressive work done by the United Nations in the area of sustainable urbanization, to architects, planners and design professionals. They are and will be playing a fundamental role in shaping the cities, that will absorb in the two […]
Special Feature by H.E. Dr Talal Abu-Ghazaleh, Emeritus Chair of CSU Advisory Board Second Edition of CSU NEWS COVID-19 has hit cities particularly hard. As big cities like New York, Paris, Madrid, Rome, Sao Paolo and many others around the world turned into hot spots of COVID-19, the well-heeled are reported to have left them […]
by Antonieta Castro-Cosío, PhD. At this point of 2020, no matter what city you live in, you have probably had to get used to life in lockdown, social distancing, and constant handwashing. You have probably also gotten used to holding work and social meetings at home via zoom, wearing a face mask when going outside, […]
By Roxana Zyman, PhD, CSU Correspondent An Introduction to Cycling in Warsaw If you stand by a bike lane as an observer on a sunny summer day in Warsaw, you see cyclists going on bikes every minute. In recent years, riding a bike in Warsaw on properly built bike lanes has become a frequently […]
By Theresa Williamson, CSU Advisory Board Member and Chauncie Bigler, Guest Contributor Since COVID-19 reached Rio de Janeiro in March 2020, the city has seen a growth curve with no sign of letting up. The impact is particularly felt by favela residents where a long list of factors all dramatically increase the chance of community […]