“When you operate with such extraordinary violence, recklesness, lies and delusion, the results can be completely catastrophic” Jeffrey Sachs www.linkedin.com/posts/pascal...

Quote: "Jeffrey Sachs - Director, Center for Sustainable Development At Columbia University on US attack on Iran." Source: https://lnkd.in/eFaR7x5v | Pascal Hetzscholdt | 22 comments

Quote: "Jeffrey Sachs - Director, Center for Sustainable Development At Columbia University on US attack on Iran." Source: https://lnkd.in/eFaR7x5v | 22 comments on LinkedIn

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Last week in Tashkent, Uzbekistan 🇺🇿 : how resilient cities of the future should look like, looking at the water-energy-land nexus. A memorable 2 day workshop at #WIUT the International University of Westminster in Tashkent

Leaders of the future in Tunisia, an #icesco capacity building programme organised with the Ministry of Education and Youth in Tunis, 🇹🇳, 19-20 Jan 2026, great energy from the South!

Jews and Israel are not the same. Equating them is a propaganda technique | Norman Solomon

Jews and Israel are not the same. Equating them is a propaganda technique | Norman Solomon

The claim is central to rationales for arming Israel even as leading human rights groups decry genocide in Gaza

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UK-Brazil exchange on research and international cooperation in São Paulo 🇧🇷 part week. A great ESRC workshop to develop future collaborations with @luzne.bsky.social and colleagues from Caxias do Sul

‘Get to know the realpolitik of cities and planning’… the final message of Anacláudia Rossbach @un-habitat to all students in a packed lecture theatre today in Paris, at the 2025 Urban School inaugural lecture at Sciencepo sciencespo.fr/fr/evenements/…

Breaking News: President Emmanuel Macron said France would recognize the state of Palestine, making it the first of the G7 nations to do so.

France Will Recognize Palestinian Statehood, Macron Says

The announcement sets France apart from the United States and most of its close allies, and could cause friction with President Trump.

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It's been quite something to attend one of the sessions of the WHC @unesco.org 47 COM and witness the discussions on new World Heritage Site nominations.

Between 1970 and 1985, a typical American family could save 10% of their income for about five years and accumulate a 20% down payment on a median-priced existing single-family home, according to a New York Times analysis. As of 2023, it would take nearly eight years, the data shows. nyti.ms/3FKEzkx

"[D]evelopment finance is most needed where investors least want to go." You’ve been given free access to this article from The Economist as a gift. You can open the link five times within seven days. After that it will expire. www.economist.com/middle-east-...

The chimera of private finance for development

A fashionable idea has yet to fulfil its promises

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It’s already one week ago but the workshop UOW-UIR in Rabat was successfully completed! Working on urban health and urban conservation to prevent further displacement and demolition!

My island of strangers: a poem | Michael Rosen

My island of strangers: a poem | Michael Rosen

The prime minister warns that immigration could turn Britain into an ‘island of strangers’. Author and poet Michael Rosen responds

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Foresight in Bahrain 🇧🇭 can we imagine a future based on alternative system of mobility in the Gulf? Signs of change but still a long way to go .. great to be back for the Prime Minister Fellowship Programme on Urban Sustainability

About to finish the international conference for the post-earthquake of Kahramanmaraş in Turkey 🇹🇷 . Thanks to the scientific committee to give me the honour of the keynote on ‘Post-disaster Urban Futures and the role of Culture in Building Resilience’

“No government — regardless of which party is in power — should dictate what private universities can teach, whom they can admit and hire, and which areas of study and inquiry they can pursue,” Alan Garber, Harvard’s president, said about President Trump's demands. nyti.ms/4jzSS9W

Voices from the Ground, a new public #webinar series on solutions and best practices for sustainable tourism development by UN Tourism! Glad to be Keynote speaker! 🗓 9 April 2025 📍 Heritage in Action: Innovating Cultural Preservation in Villages unwto-org.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: BTV by UN Tourism Network Village Talks: Voices from the Ground : Heritage in Action: Innovating Cultural Preservation in Villages. After registering, you w...

The conservation of cultural resources is essential to preserving local identity, safeguarding heritage, and ensuring long-term sustainability in villages. Well-preserved cultural assets—such as histo...

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1/2. 📢 WEBINAR: “Fund for Responding to #LossAndDamage: What to Watch Out for and What Needs to Happen in 2025” 🗓️02 April 2025 ⏰06:00 GMT / 15:00 GMT 📍Zoom ✏️Register for 06:00: :https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/AQCX7Aj7RDmPADCiwLTfWg ✏️Register for 15:00: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Memories of last week at the Jaime Lerner Foundation with a group of enthusiastic people, glad to be supporting the newly launched chair in memory of the most influential planner of our time #jaimelerner. In Curitiba, 🇧🇷 with great women: Ariadne Daher and Ilana Lerner! 💕

Last week we concluded a series of workshops in Caxias do Sul, 🇧🇷, funded by #ESRC on post-disaster preparation, exploring, with local gov, business, and communities, how to enhance collaboration and assess vulnerabilities. Pictures: anticipatory and participatory tools in action @luzne.bsky.social

Just arrived in Caxia do Sul, Brazil 🇧🇷 for the International Week on Resilience, looking forward to work with UCS, the local government and local communities on post disaster recovery after the devastating flooding of May 24, with @luzne.bsky.social 💫

Now published open source💫: ‘advancing effective Global South climate urbanism requires reorienting planning education towards the historical specificity of places and their climate justice issues’ www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Localising and reimagining urban planning knowledge for effective Global South climate urbanism

This paper acknowledges the limitations of the current system of urban knowledge production concerning climate change and its applicability to the Global South. It explores whether climate urbanism...

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NEW: What makes BLUESKY the new “IT” place for Urbanists? It’s pretty significant that the American Planning Association is putting this out there to its huge membership. I was interviewed for it, as was @mitchellsilver.bsky.social & others. Please share! @bsky.app www.planning.org/planning/202...

What Makes Bluesky the New ‘It’ Space for Urbanists

Planners are turning to the up-and-coming platform, as well as other social media, to expand their reach and increase community engagement.

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The UK joined the US in not signing the international AI declaration pledging an open, inclusive and ethical approach to Artificial Intelligence. Earlier today @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social argued that this may seem to be in the UK's interest, but in fact it isn't. blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandp...

Winners and Losers at the AI Action Summit – who does the UK stand with?

The vision of the Paris AI Action Summit is for an inclusive and sustainable AI. But the current AI champions based in the USA are pushing towards an acceleration of their global dominance. Rachel …

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The UK Government has aligned with Trump and refused to sign the Paris AI Summit’s declaration. It states that AI must be “open, inclusive, transparent, ethical, safe, secure and trustworthy, taking into account international frameworks for all” and “making AI sustainable for people and the planet”

Town Planning Review Volume 96.1 includes reviews of the latest #urbanplanning publications, with contributions from @marccollinson.bsky.social, @lorettaclees.bsky.social, and @giulioverdini.bsky.social Online at: bit.ly/TPR-96-1 @markscott-ucd.bsky.social

“There is no escaping our moral obligations as a wise leader and good neighbor in the interdependent community of free nations—our economic obligations—and our political obligations as the single largest counter to the adversaries of freedom,” -- John F. Kennedy newrepublic.com/article/1910...

The Death of USAID: These People Are out of Their Freaking Minds

The world’s richest man and its most powerful one have killed the one government agency that does the most to support the world’s most vulnerable people. There will be consequences.

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Positive vision from the UK Chancellor on growth prospects. But to create "Europe's Silicon Valley" we need to understand what made SV successful in the first place. It was not just reducing barriers but decades of strategic, decentralised and entrepreneurial public investments. 1/13

"Before he died on Dec 29, Carter would go on to work on more than 4,000 homes in 14 countries. His backing helped transform Habitat for Humanity into a household name. Over the decades it has helped 62 million people build or renovate their homes...." epaper.ajc.com/html5/reader...

Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Atlanta Journal-Constitution - Tue, 01/07/25

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"[L]earning from planners facing pressing challenges in different places, no matter how imperfect their attempts may be – can still be regenerative for planning practice itself." @giulioverdini.bsky.social review www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/full/10....

Much awaited results of the US and Canadian study of planning school climate action education! Bravo Elisabeth Infield Mark Seasons and Ward Lyles! "Teaching climate change planning: fostering hope while building capacity" - doi.org/10.1080/0269... @climateaction4cities #planningeducation 1/4

Teaching climate change planning: fostering hope while building capacity

Preparing planners to effectively engage with climate change poses vexing multi-level challenges for instructors across content, pedagogy, and relationships. There exists an urgent need, and demand...

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