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Sofia Greaves

Oct 21, 2022

Nuclear bee hives

Short poems written about the Deliberative Democracy festival at the Joint Recent Centre, Ispra, 2022.

Sofia Greaves

Feb 1, 2022

Vertical Taxis. The future?

The social implications of Vertical helicopters and technological mobility changes via Vertical Aerospace

Sofia Greaves

Oct 16, 2021

Eiffel Tower Economy

Standard ‘clock time’, was introduced in the late nineteenth century. The system was consolidated at the International Conference for...

Sofia Greaves

May 7, 2021

Post-doct @ Prospera: 'Imagine a New Society'

After researching ideal cities of the nineteenth century, I became obsessed with the idea that there must also be ideal cities in present...

Sofia Greaves

Feb 3, 2021

The Degrowth City?

We need to put Degrowth and Urbanisation together The phrase ‘without growing’ seems to imply stasis, or ‘inactivity’. This impression...

Sofia Greaves

Dec 16, 2020

Cities as Palimpsests?

Many cities have classical origins, because in the ancient Greco-Roman world, founding, building, talking about and destroying cities was...

Sofia Greaves

Dec 6, 2020

Development and utopia

I remember being taught in geography that Gross Domestic Product could reveal which nations were 'developed'. UK and USA were at the top...

Sofia Greaves

Nov 14, 2020

Cheese-grater year

Some people know that I see the year as a cheese grater. It’s not clear why this happened, but it has a very specific shape. January sits...

Sofia Greaves

Oct 9, 2020

Classics & UN Urban Agenda

'Cities can be leaders in building a culture of sustainability. But this is futile if the economic model does not change. The world is...

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