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  • Urban gardening in South Korea and Slovenia as neighbourhood collective action*

    Ieum and Onkraj gradbišča community gardens in Incheon and Ljubljana show that the social importance of urban gardening as a neighbourhood collective action is growing in South Korea and Slovenia, largely due to the engagement of urban gardening activists and civil society organisations. Introduction: Urban gardening as collective actionUrban gardening refers to non-commercial food production…

  • Strengthening social cohesion through neighbourhood improvement in Seoul and Singapore*

    The cities of Seoul and Singapore offer valuable insights into the potential of neighbourhood improvement as a social policy that can strengthen social cohesion in neighbourhoods and cities. Social cohesion and sustainable development of citiesCities are vital to national and global economic growth. They are the centres of social, cultural, and political life. However, they…

  • Transdisciplinary action research seminar

    Blaž will join as a discussant Jan Lim at the Transdisciplinary Action Research Seminar. The seminar is organised by the Department of Architecture at the KU Leuven and will take place on Thursday, March 14th from 9:30 to 12:30.  Jan is a doctoral researcher at the KU Leuven. In her lecture ‘Participation in the face…