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The LabGov team has collected for you some interesting urban stories from cities like Olinda, Lagos and Los Angeles!
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Is there a “concrete” architectural solution?
Concrete is one of the most polluting materials, and is said to release 4-8% of the world’s CO2. That is highly due to the clinker manufacture, part of the cement-making process. The latter also necessitates up to 10th % of the world’s industrial water use. Compiling examples of historical urban uses of concrete, the article traces the economic and architectural structural changes that should be operated as well as the change in mindset to achieve a more sustainable and viable development model.
https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2019/feb/25/concrete-the-most-destructive-material-on-earth
A brief drawing History of Lagos
From a fisher village to skyscrapers and shaped musical movement and music giant as Fela Kuty, Lagos has also proved to be a resilient city. Through a colourful cartoon, Tayo Fatunla pays tribute to the most populated Nigerian city.
Smart technological tools to tackle city issues
A short infographics on technological-based ideas to address the main city challenges; amongst which homelessness, pollution, and health.
Camarotização – Carnaval in Olinda, Brazil
This article
illustrates how the carnaval in the city of Olinda in Brazil triggers social
and spatial separation through the privatization of paying premises, in the so-called
camarotização process,named after the term camarotes, which,means cabin. This process, linked to the American concept of
skyboxification (M.Sandel) participates to the “gourmetização do espaço”, i.e economic-led separation and
differenciation of spaces, that fuels socio-economic categorizations and discriminations.
Article in Portuguese
Cities at war
Chronological presentation of cities photographs ravaged by war, or still at war.
A new life for used coffee grounds
It takes more than 20 years for a cup of coffee to decompose. Kaffeform, a german start-up found a new way of creating coffee cups using old coffee grounds, wood and biological binders and thus proposing a reusable solution.
Art boom in Los Angeles
Written as a short story on the museums in Los Angeles by a New Yorker, the article sets the explanatory factors of the evolution of Los Angeles museums, making as well, an historical parallel with the city development and city artistic movements.
New Applications to help women address sexual harassment
SafetiPin and Harassmap are two technological tools created to support women facing sexual harassment in public spaces.
Housing crisis in Canada
Natives canadians especially from the First Nation reserve are asking for property rights. Facing housing shortages, poor living conditions, poor health, indigenous people are urging the government for solutions since their current absence of ownership implies no asset and therefore no mortgage. However, if one solution could be abolishing 1876 Indian Act to enable private land ownership, this remains subject to criticism, among the Indigenous people notably. Some of them are trying to create new models of private homes ownership.