Brief History of P2P-Urbanism

P2P (peer-to-peer) Urbanism joins ideas from the open-source software movement together with new thinking by urbanists, into a discipline oriented towards satisfying human needs. P2P-Urbanism is concerned with cooperative and creative efforts to define space for people’s use. This essay explains P2P-Urbanism as the outcome of several historical processes, describes the cooperative participation schemes that P2P-Urbanism creates, and indicates the possible outcomes of applying P2P-Urbanism in different human environments. more...

UTM-FAB Summer course: Planning in Developing Metropolitan Regions

UTM-FAB is organizing a summer course this year as following:

Summer course title: Planning in Developing Metropolitan Regions
Date: 18th - 31st July 2010

Universiti Teknologi Malaysia is announcing the UTM2010 Summer School in Urban and Regional Planning "Planning in Developing Metropolitan Regions". It will be held from July 18th till July 31st, 2010 in Johor Bahru, Johore, Malaysia.

The summer school features advanced courses for graduate students and young researchers in the field of urban planning, metropolitan planning, and urban and transnational studies.

It consists of 2 weeks on site workshop with excursions in Kuala Lumpur, Singapore, and Iskandar Malaysia Corridor. One online preparation week will precede the event.

The program aims to equip participants with urban management and planning knowledge to understand the complex metropolitan planning issues in fast developing countries. This will also help them to apply the knowledge in design and project planning of neighborhood or a city.

The summer school is organized by UTM in collaboration with Curtin University. Decisions for admission are made on a case by case and first come first served bases. We have applicants from all over the world. Therefore the earlier you apply the better.

http://utm2010.blogspot.com/

PLUG & PLAN

In the last 15 years Helsinki and Tallinn have been developing a bottom-up partnership led to strength local economy in Estonia and global benefits for Finnish companies. This partnership is bringing many advantages to both cities, but also disadvantages especially in Tallinn. Disadvantages are, for instance, social segregation, environmental pollution, and traffic congestion. A more balanced structure will help the HTR to compete with other cities in the Baltic Sea Region, allowing a better way of live for its inhabitants.

see: http://www.cityleft.altervista.org/