CAMPAIGNS FOR OUR FUTURE
featured in book 4, building, part 1

For all town planners and urbanites, this chapter is of interest:

www.easy-town-books.com/2025/09/14/d...

As is book 3, shaping, part 1
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#urbanism #townplanning #greencities #climateaction

CREATING SPACES FOR NATURE. On pavements, squares, streets, highways, lawns & in parks, areas were roped off & given back to nature with boxes of wildflowers, spaces for insects, bridges for mammals, tree trunks for snails, little ponds for insects and fish. #photography #urbanism #nature #rethink

As I continue to write the easy town books and keep an eye on political developments, I increasingly see a need to come together in the streets, have street breakfasts, make space for nature, celebrate, shape the community together.

For more see today’s chapter SPRING SPECIALS.

#urbanism #nature

GREAT PROJECT 🐝 from Evanston!

‘Bees on the Block project — transforming underutilized lawns into nature ecosystems abounding with native plants and bees, while connecting neighbors to one another through collective environmental stewardship.’

Rewild lawns & be amazed!
#rewilding #urbanism #bees

The photographer in me can spend some happy time with a building like this (next to the Hauptbahnhof in Berlin).

The thinker and moreover the town builder in me wonders what the good of such a building is.

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I put together a little fun guide to rethinking.

Rethinking - How is it done?

'The watcher is a reminder that humans will only progress if and when they strive to understand what it is they are doing, and when they ask themselves why they are doing it.'

© Charlie Alice Raya, book 2/2, travelling

#urbansky #towns #rethink #future #greensky

For more see

www.towns-and-cities-international.org

and

www.easy-town-books.com

#urbansky #towns #rethink #future #whatif #greensky

#urbansky #booksky #artists #towns #art

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‘An artist is a needy creature. The artist needs solitude, time to contemplate, time to create. But the artist also needs the bath in the crowds, the interaction, the confrontation, the praise. And while there is some selfishness involved in this,

Whenever I come across an issue that needs addressing, I create a town which is specifically built to offer solutions and ongoing research, a town which deals with the issue and allows its people to heal and thrive.

Introducing towns & cities international

The idea to give a town a purpose first developed in my easy town books. By now I have a collection of more than eighty ideas for towns with a purpose.

In my main fictional work, the easy town books, I create a town and a town experiment from scratch.
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A town with a focus brings together people from around the world who share an interest, a characteristic, a passion, and who want to further explore what they are interested in, who want to share their findings.