Massive Small attempts to look beyond traditional political concepts of ‘left’ and ‘right’, this video explains our standpoint excellently.
In this video Jonathan Haidt illustrates the danger of reaching for reassuring absolutes, and how our natural thinking encourages us to pick one polarity and heroise it, while demonising the counter position. He encourages us to ‘step outside the moral matrix’ and see the value in balance.
Jonathan Haidt: On the Moral Mind
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Aziza Chaouni: How I brought a river, and my city, back to life
Andrew Campbell,,Aziza Chaouni, Fez, Urban Renewal
The Fez River winds through the medina of Fez, Morocco—a mazelike medieval city that’s a World Heritage site. Once...
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Take your City Back with Paint
Andrew Campbell,
Make a city beautiful, curb corruption. Edi Rama took this deceptively simple path as mayor of Tirana, Albania, where...
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Steven Johnson: The Web as a City
Andrew Campbell,,Complexity Theory, Steven Johson
Steven Johnson says the Web is like a city: built by many people, completely controlled by no one, intricately...
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James Howard Kunstler: The Ghastly Tragedy of the Suburbs
Andrew Campbell,,James Howard Kunstler, The End of Suburbia
In James Howard Kunstler’s view, public spaces should be inspired centers of civic life and the physical manifestation of...
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Education Innovation in the Slums
Andrew Campbell,
Charles Leadbeater went looking for radical new forms of education — and found them in the slums of Rio...
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Alejandro Aravena’s Philosophy: Bring The Community Into The Process
Andrew Campbell,
Alejandro Aravena shows how taking an unusual approach to design – inspired by the favelas and slums in Chile...
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Rob Hopkins: Transition to a World without Oil
Andrew Campbell,,Rob Hopkins, Sustainability, Transition Towns
Rob Hopkins reminds us that the oil our world depends on is steadily running out. He proposes a unique...
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“The federation model of community organizing” – Sheela Patel, Slum Dwellers International – UN-Habitat
Andrew Campbell,,Community Organising, Sheela Patel
In the past two decades through a process called “Enumeration” through which the members collect at city level data...