by Mark Swilling | Jul 31, 2016 | Blog
For the past 15 years I have given a lecture during the first module of our masters course on sustainable development on the evolution of the global economy from about 1850 onwards and how this relates to the history of economic theory as we have moved through...
by Mark Swilling | Jul 31, 2016 | Blog
Tau Tavenga, Edgar Pieterse and I presented a short film at the International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam (#(IABR) that I think represents the most satisfying depiction of the really extra-ordinary complexity, dynamism, vibrancy, pain, struggles and potentials of...
by Mark Swilling | Jul 24, 2016 | Blog, Publication
I was asked to write an article for the Guardian in the lead-up to the Urban Age conference in Venice – click HERE for a copy.
by Mark Swilling | Jul 24, 2016 | Blog
At the second anniversary party of the Centre for Agroecology Water and Resilience at University of Coventry today with Kumi Naidoo (right) and CAWR Director Michel Pimbert. Keynotes delivered by Frances Moore-Lappe and Kumi Naidoo. Inspiring day! Click here for pics...
by Mark Swilling | Jul 24, 2016 | Blog
This is my last week at the Urban Institute at Sheffield where I have more or less been based for most of my sabbatical these past three months. Headed up by Prof Simon Marvin (co-author of the seminal work on urban infrastructures and many other publications on...
by Mark Swilling | Jul 17, 2016 | Blog
As happens each year in a significant city somewhere in the world, an amazing array of networks and thinkers came together this year at the 2016 #UrbanAge conference – like in previous years, it was an urbanist’s extravaganza carefully choreographed by...
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