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Howdy ! It's me Scarlett !
This week we have 3 categories of topics which are about cities and urbanization, public health and education skills. Do not be obsessed with all the issues too much. Just pick some articles what you have interests and prepare your opinions related to those articles. :) Detailed lists are as follows. Hope you enjoy the topics.
◈ Urban Gentrification
---- Apartment Redevelopment
---- Gentrification X: how an academic argument became the people's protest
◈ Cities and Urbanization
---- Paris wants to build a forest 5 times larger than Central Park
---- Why this Danish city is rebuilding itself out of recycled rubble
---- This South Korean city eliminates the need to drive
◈ Education and Skills
---- 12 ways to get smarter – in one chart
◈ Public Health
---- Disease X: Unknown Pathogen Could Cause Epidemic That Can Kill Millions Worldwide
---- Beware 'Disease X': the mystery killer keeping scientists awake at night
With luv
Scarlett
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◈ Urban Gentrification
Topic 1 - Apartment Redevelopment
Topic 2 - Gentrification X: how an academic argument became the people's protest
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< Questions >
Q1. What is the inclusive growth? Could you suggest any idea to achieve the inclusive growth while we are carrying out gentrification?
Q2. Have you ever heard about the word 'gentrification', ' regeneration' or 'redevelopment'? Do you know the definition of those terminologies? Could you distinguish each word from others?
Q3. What images are coming up when you hear the words home, identity and community? Do you know the meaning of City village?
Q4. This article suggested that gentrification can cause the social cleansing which causes fractured community. What is the meaning of social cleansing or urban neocolonialism? What is wrong with it?
Q5. Last June, Berlin made headlines when it began enforcing rent controls for all, limiting landlords to charging new tenants more than 10% above the local average. What do you think of Berlin's policy?
Q6. Do you find any place to keep without changing in your urban area even while it went through gentrification? For example Berlin's case which keep 'very local geographies'?
Q7. What is the 'Right to the City' which is suggested idea by UN Habitat? How about the 'Digital Right to the City'? Do you know the meaning by those expressions?
*** The right to the city
The right to the city is an idea and a slogan that was first proposed by Henri Lefebvre in his 1968 book Le Droit à la ville.
Lefebvre summarizes the idea as a "demand...[for] a transformed and renewed access to urban life". David Harvey described it as follows:
The right to the city is far more than the individual liberty to access urban resources: it is a right to change ourselves by changing the city. It is, moreover, a common rather than an individual right since this transformation inevitably depends upon the exercise of a collective power to reshape the processes of urbanization. The freedom to make and remake our cities and ourselves is, I want to argue, one of the most precious yet most neglected of our human rights.
It has been suggested that the phrase has taken on a variety of meanings and Marcelo Lopes de Souza has argued that as the right to the city has become "fashionable these days", "[t]he price of this has often been the trivialisation and corruption of Lefebvre's concept" and called for fidelity to the original radical meaning of the idea.
A number of popular movements, such as the shack dwellers' movement Abahlali baseMjondolo in South Africa, the Right to the City Alliance in the United States, Recht auf Stadt, a network of squatters, tenants and artists in Hamburg, and various movements in Asia and Latin America, have incorporated the idea of the right to the city into their struggles.
In Brazil the 2001 City Statute wrote the Right to the City into federal law.
More recently, scholars have proposed a 'Digital Right to the City', which involves thinking about the city as not just bricks and mortar, but also digital code and information.
Source : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_to_the_city
Q8. Do you satisfy with your living condition? Do you think your residing area satisfy with
the 'Right to the City' or the 'Digital Right to the City' ?
Q9. Do you find any site where was currently redeveloped because of old buildings? Please compare the current environment to the past environment?
Q10. What is the advantages and disadvantages of gentrification?
Q11. Why should we think about the community when we are enacting gentrification?
Q12. Above article suggested that we should take into consideration the 'Right to the City' concept for all urban dwellers equally. In this perspective what is the public sector's role in gentrification agenda?
Q13. Could you find any place which is the not only most historical but intriguing place for you in your region? Why did you select this place?
Q14. Have you ever visited Sooamgol in Cheongju? What do you think of this place?
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◈ Cities and Urbanization
Topic 1 - Why this Danish city is rebuilding itself out of recycled rubble
Topic 2 - Paris wants to build a forest 5 times larger than Central Park
Topic 3 - his South Korean city eliminates the need to drive
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< Questions >
Q1. Where is the most attractive and livable city for you between Copenhagen, Songdo and Paris?
Q2. What is the most important quality when you are choosing a place to live?
Q3. If your house is built by up-cycled construction materials from suburban area with historical stories, how would you feel about that?
Q4. In 2015, Singapore built a 250-acre development of "supertrees" — high-tech structures featuring more than 150,000 plants that collect solar energy. If there are park with those facilities in your city, would you visit that place? How do you think about this idea?
Q5. Which one do you like the most between living in a urban area and living in a suburban area? Why?
Q6. How do you think about living in a city without cars?
Q7. How do you think about living in a huge natural central park where you can enjoy various outdoor activities and natural atmosphere?
Q8. How do you think about the city which has unique and eco-friendly buildings using recycled rubble?
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◈ Education and Skills
Topic 1 - 12 ways to get smarter – in one chart
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< Questions >
Q1. Do you any treatment to tune your natural capabilities? For example doing brain exercises, puzzle solving, and getting optimal sleep.
Q2. How can we be more productive with our performance with life’s increasingly complex problems?
Q3. This article suggested that we can improve our performance by using specific mental model which is applying concepts such as the 80/20 rule (Pareto’s principle), compound interest, and network effects. For instance, If you focus your effort on these 20% of tasks first, and get the most out of them, you will be able to drive results much more efficiently than wasting time on the 80% “long tail” shown below. Do you have any experience to improve your work efficiency by applying 80/20 rule?
Q4. Are you good at making high performance in a short time? Otherwise, do you need longer duration to make your best performance?
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◈ Public Health
Topic 1 - Disease X: Unknown Pathogen Could Cause Epidemic That Can Kill Millions Worldwide
Topic 2 - Beware 'Disease X': the mystery killer keeping scientists awake at night
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< Questions >
Q1. What images are in your mind when you hear the word 'disease' or 'virus'?
Q2. Could you explain what the Disease X is?
Q3. According to WHO, Disease X is included into the list with eight frightening but familiar diseases such as Ebola, Zika, and Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS). But we don't know how to treat them properly until now. What do you think about Disease X?
Q4. How dangerous is DNA-changing technology?
Q5. What would you do if there was a sudden epidemic?
Q6. How serious is the threat from bio-weapons or deadly viruses?
Q7. Should there be a travel ban if there is an epidemic?
Q8. Is it better to live in the countryside to avoid diseases?
Q9. What's the worst virus you've ever had?
Q10. Are you careful about keeping germs away?
Q11. Will scientists destroy all viruses one day?
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