Airbnb and the City that checked out
When Airbnb launched in 2008, it promised something disarmingly simple: to connect travelers with locals willing to share their homes.
For two years, I worked in a team with great colleagues on a planned city extension for the Greater Accra Region in Ningo Prampram. When completed, it can house 1.5 million people. But what means completed? And – what is the role of a western planner in the development of an African city? I chose to avoid discussions of form and look and focus on what infrastructures a city needs to be functional and resilient.
The international new town day. organized by the International New Town Institute INTI was the first occasion to show this.
When Airbnb launched in 2008, it promised something disarmingly simple: to connect travelers with locals willing to share their homes.
In 2015, the United Nations launched the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) – a set of 17 ambitious objectives meant to
BEYOND PEAK INDIFFERENCE #1 – I am currently organizing moderating a conversation series “Beyond Peak Indifference” which puts climate change
A Novel Paris Before the Line On the mornings when the light arrived softly over the Seine, Leonie Moreau believed
Currently, I am preparing a lecture series which will look
Our role as humans on this planet has to change.
Recently a new book was published, showing the “radical architecture
This week, I had the pleasure of attending the opening