Posts Tagged ‘diversity’
Entering cosmopolis: Crossingover, hybridity, conciliation and the Intercultural City Ecosystem
Before I answer the question: “How is nature critical to a twenty-first century urban ethic?” I first need to ask the more fundamental question: “What is nature and how is…
Read MoreInterculturalism and culturally inclusive space I
Part 1 Challenges: Contact, conflict, separation, segregation. In my blog Cities of (in)Difference I discussed Bloomfield and Bianchini’s (2002, p. 6) intercultural dream where “different cultures intersect, ‘contaminate’ each other and…
Read MoreCities of (in)Difference?
Cities of difference (Fincher and Jacobs 1998) are places where we are “in the presence of otherness” (Sennett 1990 p123) — namely, our increasingly different, diverse, and culturally heterogeneous urban areas. Yet…
Read MoreThe new leaders are waiting: Scaling up inclusion and diversity in environmental organizations.
A posting by Helen Whybrow in ‘Saving Land’ the Land Trust Alliance’s newsletter entitled ‘2042 Today: Cultivating Conservation Leaders of the Future’ (Fall 2011) described a 2010 leadership retreat for diverse…
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