About Urban Media Lab
The Urban Media Lab (UML) is LabGov’s platform for debate on the complex challenges that cities around the world are facing today. The UML brings together city-makers, researchers, citizens and urban experts to reflect on a variety of themes relating to urban living and the future of cities.
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Global Supply Chain Role and Crucial Role of Cities
The modern food industry has undoubtedly reached impressive milestones in terms of efficiency, diversity, and accessibility of products, largely owing to globalization. Traditional globalized food supply chains now offer customers an extensive range of food options,...
Corporate sustainability a shift from shareholder model to long-term value creation
INTRODUCTION In a world where companies are constantly under the pressure of climate change and unpredictable future business disruption, the need for sustainable practices in business operations has become necessary for companies' long-term survival. This requires...
Energy Communities: Fighting Poverty and Energy Injustices
Energy Poverty In recent years, the energy transition is bringing on a significant shift in energy sources and technologies once used to meet the energy needs of global societies. Usually, the energy transition involves a change from traditional energy sources,...
Sustainability and the pharmaceutical industry: an inevitable meeting
With the rise in the global average temperature and the effects this has and will increasingly bring on the earth's climate with serious consequences for society and the economy, the European Union and in particular the European Commission has approved The Green Deal....
Climate litigation against Italy before the European Court of Human Rights
Climate litigation haw been growing exponentially before both national and international courts. It mainly addresses state responsibility for greenhouse gas emissions and climate (in)action, as proven by the international data-bases on climate litigation of the Sabin...
Assessing Continuity versus Change: The problem of Choosing and Adapting different deliberative and participatory tools to different contexts
By Dr. Sofia Eliodori Innovating the European democracies and democratic practices around Europe is considered one of the main challenges to driving our system and values in the XXI century, renewing our institutions, and making them able to face the issues of...
Blockchain and sustainable finance: how smart contracts integrate technological innovation and sustainability
Introduction Blockchain is a revolutionary technology that has transformed several industries, including financial transactions, supply chain management, healthcare, electronic voting systems and even the sustainable energy sector. Blockchain is essentially a...
Building Affordable Futures: The Role of Plank Road Community Land Bank and Trust
Urban affordability is an issue cities all over the world grapple with. Emerging from first the foreclosure crisis in 2008 and now COVID-19, many cities are facing an ongoing and more severe problem: the lack of quality affordable housing. Compounded by...
The Sunrise of Water Era: Innovating governance towards sustainable water management
By Marijana Krstić Water shapes every facet of our world: it is essential part of life we use daily - life giving, and sometimes a brutal force of nature - contested and destructive. As a shared resource, it could both unite and divide us. Management of this...
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Urban Journalism Institute
The Urban Journalism Institute
The Urban Journalism Institute is a platform incubated by LabGov.City to promote urban journalism as a tool to put forms of sustainable and inclusive development at the center of the current conversation on cities and their governance. The Institute aggregates journalists, communicators, experts and policymakers to share knowledge about, and debate on urban topics, as well as assist regional, national and local governments, NGOs, and foundations in the communication of urban strategies and projects on the field.
The Urban Journalism Institute is co-directed by Simone d’Antonio and Alessandra Pirera in partnership with UN-Habitat and other LabGov.City partners such as Luiss University and Georgetown University.
What we do?
• Trainings for journalists, communicators s and press officers
• High-level dialogues with editors
• Management of urban communications
• Media monitoring and networking
• Urban reportages and portfolios
• Media tours
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Changing the conversation about cities
Cities are the places where most of the challenges of our time are converging. Innovative solutions and experiences of urban governance and economy shared and discussed in a multilevel dimension can be influential in changing the approach to cities in national and local contexts worldwide.
Media have a decisive role in promoting urban debates at all levels. While they cover urgent contemporary trends, sharing news about economic crisis, refugees and migrants’ emergencies, women struggles, or natural disasters, they are talking about how cities are planned, managed and lived.
Exploring new communications tools to develop meaningful urban storytelling will contribute to spread new narratives about cities able to foster active participation of citizens and to push innovative social, economic and environmental urban policies. In this sense, cities are becoming the testing ground also to stimulate a more civic and substantive engagement of media in sustainable development processes at local and global level.