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Cities and the Anthropocene

Seminar and debate

The CCCB and the British Academy are jointly organising the project “Cities and the Anthropocene: A Mediterranean Perspective”, which will bring together experts from several countries to discuss the urgent need to transform cities in order to make a sustainable future possible.

Cities and the Anthropocene, a Mediterranean Perspective

The climate emergency, growing inequalities, atmospheric degradation and other factors like tourism and migration are severely testing urban life. In this seminar, organized by the British Academy and the CCCB, twenty experts in urban studies share ideas and strategies for designing effective public policies that will make it possible to deal with the tensions arising from the Anthropocene and, at the same time, to transform cities in order to make them liveable and sustainable. ...

Suzanne Hall and Nigel Thrift

Cities and the Anthropocene

Cities are now the main human habitat and forecasts indicate that they will continue to grow in the coming years. The sociologist Suzanne Hall and the expert in human geography Nigel Thrift, two leading figures today in the study of urban life, discussed about the situation of cities in the ...