Yonn Dierwechter
@yonnd.bsky.social
Professor, School of Urban Studies, UW Tacoma, USA: metropolitan geography, spatial planning, climate action, etc. Recent books: Climate Change and the Future of Seattle; Smart Transitions in City-regionalism; The Urbanization of Green Internationalism.
Future Urban Sustainability: Lessons Learnt From the SDGs and Perspectives for a Post-2030 Agenda www.cogitatiopress.com/urbanplannin...
Future Urban Sustainability: Lessons Learnt From the SDGs and Perspectives for a Post-2030 Agenda
Thematic Issue, Vol 10 (2025)
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November 12, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Future Urban Sustainability: Lessons Learnt From the SDGs and Perspectives for a Post-2030 Agenda www.cogitatiopress.com/urbanplannin...
Public Urban Cultures of Care www.cogitatiopress.com/urbanplannin...
Public Urban Cultures of Care
Thematic Issue, Vol 10 (2025)
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September 24, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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🌍📢 Call for Papers!! Urban Studies seeks submissions for a special issue on Climate Urbanism, Resilience & Justice — exploring how cities confront the climate crisis, risk, & inequality. @urbanstudiesjournal.com @acuto.bsky.social
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Climate Urbanism, Resilience, and Justice - Urban Studies
Urban Studies Journal Call for Papers is now open: Climate Urbanism, Resilience and Justice. Submission deadline: 31 January 2026.
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September 19, 2025 at 10:23 AM
🌍📢 Call for Papers!! Urban Studies seeks submissions for a special issue on Climate Urbanism, Resilience & Justice — exploring how cities confront the climate crisis, risk, & inequality. @urbanstudiesjournal.com @acuto.bsky.social
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Doesn’t ‘feel so good’ today — but what a great one.
Chuck Mangione, ‘Smooth Jazz’ Hitmaker With a Fluegelhorn, Dies at 84 www.nytimes.com/2025/07/24/a...
Chuck Mangione, ‘Smooth Jazz’ Hitmaker With a Fluegelhorn, Dies at 84 www.nytimes.com/2025/07/24/a...
Chuck Mangione, ‘Smooth Jazz’ Hitmaker With a Fluegelhorn, Dies at 84
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July 24, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Doesn’t ‘feel so good’ today — but what a great one.
Chuck Mangione, ‘Smooth Jazz’ Hitmaker With a Fluegelhorn, Dies at 84 www.nytimes.com/2025/07/24/a...
Chuck Mangione, ‘Smooth Jazz’ Hitmaker With a Fluegelhorn, Dies at 84 www.nytimes.com/2025/07/24/a...
The Role of Planning in ‘Anti-Democratic’ Times www.cogitatiopress.com/urbanplannin...
The Role of Planning in ‘Anti-Democratic’ Times
Thematic Issue, Vol 10 (2025)
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June 17, 2025 at 11:15 AM
The Role of Planning in ‘Anti-Democratic’ Times www.cogitatiopress.com/urbanplannin...
In Curitiba’s Rapid Bus Rapid Transit system this week, the world’s best and most famous. A real achievement: easy, safe, comprehensive, affordable— but also competing with Uber.
May 23, 2025 at 3:19 PM
In Curitiba’s Rapid Bus Rapid Transit system this week, the world’s best and most famous. A real achievement: easy, safe, comprehensive, affordable— but also competing with Uber.
Place-Shaping Through and With Time: Urban Planning as a Temporal Art and Social Science www.cogitatiopress.com/urbanplannin...
Place-Shaping Through and With Time: Urban Planning as a Temporal Art and Social Science
Thematic Issue, Vol 10 (2025)
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April 30, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Place-Shaping Through and With Time: Urban Planning as a Temporal Art and Social Science www.cogitatiopress.com/urbanplannin...
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Hot off the press! Our new open access issue explores how participatory approaches advance UN SDGs, tackling urban challenges and advocating for transformative governance shifts.
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The Role of Participatory Planning and Design in Addressing the UN Sustainable Development Goals
Thematic Issue, Vol 10 (2025)
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March 20, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Hot off the press! Our new open access issue explores how participatory approaches advance UN SDGs, tackling urban challenges and advocating for transformative governance shifts.
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# Tacoma is striving to pick up its pace of housing growth. The City hopes newly enact multiplex zoning while help it hit 325,000 residents in a few decades tim…
February 21, 2025 at 1:12 PM
# Tacoma is striving to pick up its pace of housing growth. The City hopes newly enact multiplex zoning while help it hit 325,000 residents in a few decades tim…
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26 points is set to be the final winning margin for the social housing measure Proposition 1A. With nearly all ballots accounted for, it's 63% to 37%. A decisive victory. Background: www.theurbanist.org/2025/02/13/s...
Social Housing Proposition 1A Prevails, Gains 20-Point Lead in Thursday Count - The Urbanist
# Proposition 1A has won the special election to decide the fate of social housing in Seattle. After leading by 15 points on election night, Prop 1A continued to expand its lead in subsequent ballot c...
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February 20, 2025 at 8:27 PM
26 points is set to be the final winning margin for the social housing measure Proposition 1A. With nearly all ballots accounted for, it's 63% to 37%. A decisive victory. Background: www.theurbanist.org/2025/02/13/s...
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Huge turnout to protest the abuses of the Trump administration and save the civil service in downtown Seattle. Thousands in attendance.
February 17, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Huge turnout to protest the abuses of the Trump administration and save the civil service in downtown Seattle. Thousands in attendance.
Remembering today of all days the 34 year old better angel of our nature.
January 20, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Remembering today of all days the 34 year old better angel of our nature.
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CP Nelson says members should oppose Strauss's motion. "This is an economic development bill with a land use element," she says. "What is motivating me is the fact that small industrial businesses need more space in Seattle."
She says 2-3 "makers" businesses leave Seattle every month.
She says 2-3 "makers" businesses leave Seattle every month.
January 14, 2025 at 10:47 PM
CP Nelson says members should oppose Strauss's motion. "This is an economic development bill with a land use element," she says. "What is motivating me is the fact that small industrial businesses need more space in Seattle."
She says 2-3 "makers" businesses leave Seattle every month.
She says 2-3 "makers" businesses leave Seattle every month.
January 11, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Years and years and years lecturing on London; now, finally, a big US case to consider. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/01...
New York’s Congestion Pricing Program Starts Without Hiccups
The tolling program, the first of its kind in the country, will face its first big test with rush hour traffic on Monday morning. The new fees are intended to push more people to use trains and buses,...
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January 5, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Years and years and years lecturing on London; now, finally, a big US case to consider. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/01...
A bit before I joined BlueSky: www.cogitatiopress.com/urbanplannin...
Planning, Manufacturing, and Sustainability: Three Research Themes | Editorial | Urban Planning
Yonn Dierwechter, Mark Pendras
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December 31, 2024 at 11:19 PM
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How do newcomers navigate the challenges of arriving in a new place?
Our new open access issue explores the creative ways migrants and residents work together, often blurring the lines between formal and informal systems, to build connections and access resources.
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Our new open access issue explores the creative ways migrants and residents work together, often blurring the lines between formal and informal systems, to build connections and access resources.
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Urban In/Formalities: How Arrival Infrastructures Shape Newcomers’ Access To Resources
Thematic Issue, Vol 9 (2024)
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December 19, 2024 at 12:28 PM
How do newcomers navigate the challenges of arriving in a new place?
Our new open access issue explores the creative ways migrants and residents work together, often blurring the lines between formal and informal systems, to build connections and access resources.
Issue: shortt.link/up396bsky
Our new open access issue explores the creative ways migrants and residents work together, often blurring the lines between formal and informal systems, to build connections and access resources.
Issue: shortt.link/up396bsky
Less interesting here claim is the planning and design theory than a (former) society with”…talented local authority surveyors, solicitors and architects who knew how to get things done and who took the idea of public service seriously.”
The government says it wants to build ‘beautiful’ architecture. But what does that really mean?
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Want to imagine the city of the future? Try Milton Keynes
As the government draws up plans for a new town of some 300,000 people between Oxford and Cambridge, it would be wise if it abandoned its narrow defin...
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December 8, 2024 at 3:25 PM
Less interesting here claim is the planning and design theory than a (former) society with”…talented local authority surveyors, solicitors and architects who knew how to get things done and who took the idea of public service seriously.”
Reposted by Yonn Dierwechter
The government says it wants to build ‘beautiful’ architecture. But what does that really mean?
www.prospectmagazine...
www.prospectmagazine...
Want to imagine the city of the future? Try Milton Keynes
As the government draws up plans for a new town of some 300,000 people between Oxford and Cambridge, it would be wise if it abandoned its narrow defin...
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk
December 8, 2024 at 1:21 PM
The government says it wants to build ‘beautiful’ architecture. But what does that really mean?
www.prospectmagazine...
www.prospectmagazine...
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Why aren't cities designed for kids?
Our new open access issue explores how cities can be made more child-friendly, considering factors like safe mobility, accessible play spaces, and connection with nature.
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Our new open access issue explores how cities can be made more child-friendly, considering factors like safe mobility, accessible play spaces, and connection with nature.
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Children’s Wellbeing in the Post-Pandemic City: Design, Planning, and Policy Challenges
Thematic Issue, Vol 9 (2024)
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November 28, 2024 at 12:26 PM
Why aren't cities designed for kids?
Our new open access issue explores how cities can be made more child-friendly, considering factors like safe mobility, accessible play spaces, and connection with nature.
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@owenwaygood.bsky.social
Our new open access issue explores how cities can be made more child-friendly, considering factors like safe mobility, accessible play spaces, and connection with nature.
shortt.link/up350bsky
@owenwaygood.bsky.social
November 19, 2024 at 2:02 PM