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The round-up: thanks for showing us your cities!
Explore 12 outstanding entries in our Show Us Your City competition, as creatives and urban thinkers guide us through great creative cities around the region.
What makes a great creative city?
For several years, Charles Landry has asked people to describe the qualities of the great creative places to live in and to visit. What three words would you use to describe the creative city?
A palm-sized gadget than can save more than 2 500 litres of water a year: meet the Leakfrog.
Many of Tokyo’s neighborhood parks are poorly maintained and under-used. Why are some public spaces so unloved? How can we help people reclaim and revive spaces like these in our cities?
Bartering has entered the 21st century in the form of social cycling. It can be as simple as a group of friends getting together to trade clothing, or as complex as a national initiative.
Jared Braiterman introduces us to Licolita, group usually focused on otakus (manga and anime fans), now raising awareness of urban ecology and agriculture.
Jared Braiterman PhD is a Research Fellow at the Tokyo University of Agriculture, writing and consulting about Tokyo Green Space. Jared examines how biodiversity remakes cities for human and environmental benefit.
The inspiring story of “Perkumpulan Hijau” (Green Club), a group of unemployed men in Jakarta who took the initiative to sort, compost and recycle their community’s waste to lift themselves from poverty.
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