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In this interview, Olumuyiwa Bayode Adegun — an associate professor in the Department of Architecture at the Federal University of Technology, Akure, Nigeria — shares his experiences, expertise and insights into his dedicated efforts to address urban heat challenges faced by urban informal settlements across Africa.
In this interview, journalist and urban farmer Claudia Visoni explores how the community gardens of São Paulo city are transforming urban landscapes through grassroots activism, and revealing strategies for building sustainable green spaces that combat climate change, strengthen communities and challenge Brazil’s cultural relationship with manual labor and collective action.
For a transdisciplinary perspective on urban greening at this particular juncture in history, we spoke with landscape architect and urban planner Theodore S. Eisenman about the contemporary upswell of interest in urban tree planting and related greening initiatives.
Isabel Wetzel, a special advisor at UN-Habitat, discusses the goal of the upcoming smart city guidelines. She says that cities should not be guided by technology; rather, the purpose of technology is to address people’s needs and make city systems more efficient.
In this interview with Victoria Itskovych, the Chief Information Officer of the Kyiv City Council, we discuss the importance of robust digital ecosystems for several city services. These include mental health and financial education, and also services around threats in the context of the ongoing war.
In this interview, Peter D. Blackmer, Assistant Professor of Africology and African American Studies at the Eastern Michigan University, spoke to us from Detroit to discuss the value of grassroots perspectives in urban research and oral history as a method.
In this interview from late November 2023, James Anderson, Bloomberg Philanthropies’ Government Innovation Lead, discusses the role of philanthropy in addressing urban research and problems.
In this interview, sociologist María José Álvarez-Rivadulla talks about her experience with urban research in Latin America and the USA. She also reflects on the Global South’s contributions to urban scholarship.
