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All Urban Planning and Design projects matter!There is not only one single project that can transform an entire city. It’s a series of different scales of projects that over time transform a city and make it a city for people. 💪 Please don’t underestimate your “small” projects. Let’s keep in mind that all projects matterContinue reading “All Urban Planning and Design projects matter”

I call 2022 a year of people and making #citiesforpeople !During the last 3 months, I met more people than I met in the previous 3 years of COVID! I am grateful for being part of fantastic teams and organizations. I am grateful for having passionate team members and brave leaders around me & with me! IContinue reading “2022 was a year of people and making cities for people”

🎉 2022 is a BIG year! from the bottom of my heart to all Urbanistica Podcast – Cities for People listeners from 140 countries: THANK YOU FOR LISTENING! I am grateful for all guests who took their time to prepare, come to the studio/Zoom, and honestly share their work and life stories. The main thing that IContinue reading “2022 Podcast review”

By reading online, networking on Linkedin, and interviewing people on podcasts, I see that we as urban practitioners and policymakers start to complicate our community participation methods and processes. We do that by adding many many many steps which might look good on our documentation and diagrams. Some methods and handbooks are just getting biggerContinue reading “co-creating! start from step 0”

Happy #WorldChildrensDay !We have everything but still, we need something to make #childfriendlycities We have handbooks, tools, platforms, models, methods, roadmaps, scientifically based research papers, reports, budgets, and we even have the Convention on the Rights of the Child by UNICEF (54 articles in the pictures below). What else do we need? Well, we need more Brave Leaders who thinkContinue reading “World Childrens Day”

🏆 I am so honored to receive Clarence Morberg Award 2022 from Samhällsbyggarna Clarence Morberg-pristagare – Samhällsbyggarnas utmärkelse som belönar unga inspiratörer och samhällsbyggare. Jag känner mig hedrad, ödmjuk och väldigt glad att ta emot Samhällsbyggarnas pris Clarence Morberg-priset för år 2022. Priset för mig är ett belöningskvitto. Ett kvitto på att mitt aktiva driv ochContinue reading “Clarence Morberg Award 2022”

Solna Gymnasium school x AFRY Urban Planning and Design section The school is involved in an Erasmus+ project that focuses on SDG Goal 11: Sustainable cities and communities. They bring young people and teachers from 4 EU countries. The task for students is to develop a concept for sustainable neighborhoods in both Minecraft and in models. IContinue reading “Solna Gymnasium”

Greetings from HamburgExploring the urban planning and design progress. Finally, after 2 Years of covid, I met some of AFRY‘s talented Landscape Architects team from different parts of Sweden. We did a workshop about our future goals, our mission, and our actions to accelerate the transition towards more sustainable cities and communities by landscapearchitecture design. We discussed how toContinue reading “Greetings from Hamburg”

A 15-minute conversation about the 15-minute city with Professor Carlos Moreno During Placemaking Europe week in Pontevedra city, we had a conversation in an open-air Podcast booth. People were listening to us live. 🎙️ We talked about the status update of the 15-minute city, success stories and mistakes that urban practitioners make when we implement 15 minute cityContinue reading “15 minute city talk”

I find it ridiculous that we as urban practitioners sometimes of us look for final answers & real design proposals from children when we do workshops and engage children in projects. It just annoys me that sometimes we stress children to give us solid solutions. We forget that we should listen to them and translateContinue reading “Berghs School of Communication Morning Routine”