Field Notes & essays.
Short dispatches from the room, longer reflections from the network. An editorial record of how citymaking is being practised across Asia-Pacific.
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Essays
Financing Regenerative Citymaking
Eight working principles on the capital structure regeneration actually requires — patient seed, stewardship instruments, honest value capture, and anti-displacement as a financing covenant rather than a wish.
Creative placemaking: a working definition for the next decade
Creative placemaking is the deliberate use of arts and culture to shape a place — not decorate it. A working note on what the term names, what it doesn't, and how it cuts across Adaptive Neighbourhoods, Urban Software, and Placemaking & Legacy.
Adaptive Neighbourhoods: notes on regeneration
Seven working principles from inside the Adaptive Neighbourhoods theme — stewardship, editable rules, and anti-displacement as design constraint.
The Conscious Cities Index, v1
Three pillars, twelve indicators, one equation — a first reading of twelve cities against a framework that asks a different question of urban success.
Being versus doing: unlocking new dimensions of liveability
If liveability 1.0 measured the environment in service of human doing, liveability 2.0 must be concerned with the felt impact of that environment on human being — the conscious city.