4CITIES - Urban Studies

European Urban Studies in a Global Age.
Erasmus Mundus Master's in Urban Studies.

Tweets on all things urban, especially when related to 4citizens.

[4CITIES - Urban Studies @4cities_eu]

3 weeks ago @4cities_eu students saw their universities closed overnight. They decided to dedicate their quarantine to collecting and spreading lockdown stories from across the world: how do we experience living in our cities under #COVID19? Find it out on @spreadstories

[Spread Stories, Not the Virus @spreadstories]

Explore the nearly 100 stories on our platform through our interactive map on #spreadstoriesnotthevirus. Click and drag our map and discover how #COVID19 is experienced by citizens from New York to Shanghai. Check out our map and our #lockdown stories:
https://t.co/44aM1np4ym

[4CITIES - Urban Studies @4cities_eu]

As part of the fieldwork conducted for “Urbanism and Architecture” course, Claire Griffith and @vivisrock from #Cohort12 share their individual analysis on the users, producers and features in three parks in #Copenhagen. Read both stories here ⬇️

https://t.co/JhLCNqPczq

[4CITIES - Urban Studies @4cities_eu]

Amazing news from Vienna! Last year, our students worked on a project with @floloeco to transform a street next to their university building of @univienna into a public square: https://t.co/lqbz1Ex0A4 #kommraus #publicspace

[Florian Lorenz @floloeco]

This summer, a 7-lane street section in #Vienna will become a #publicspace for "urban holidays" with swimming pool, culinary & cultural program and a #laboratory to discuss the future of two districts now divided by an urban highway.

#TacticalUrbanism #placemaking #participation

[Marta Domínguez @martadomper]

@transmite_h magnifico blog en español sobre historias de las ciuades del coronavirus. Bonita iniciativa de los algunos alumnos del @4cities_eu. COnsultalo y comparte tu historia, dibujo, etc. en el.

[4CITIES - Urban Studies @4cities_eu]

@BartlettUCL designed a curriculum to "de-centre ‘whiteness’ in our imaginations of the built environment and positively disrupt curricula that perpetuate racialised disparities as neutral, natural and normal". https://t.co/wOQSAS0tsn

[4CITIES - Urban Studies @4cities_eu]

@spreadstories has launched @transmite_h, the Spanish-language website of #spreadstoriesnotthevirus. If you speak Spanish, and want to read more stories from the Spanish-speaking world, make sure to like and follow
https://t.co/CVWLeYo9MP

[Spread Stories, Not the Virus @spreadstories]

"Its more important than ever for us to commit to positive values of the common good in our #COVID19 communications, emphasizing our interconnectedness, our shared future & our unity."

Thanks @MariyaParodi for this thoughtful analysis & our mention in it!
https://t.co/T8Rf67Ul9m

[Spread Stories, Not the Virus @spreadstories]

How do we use stories to inspire a post-pandemic city?
One of our teammates Lea Léwitan contributed to this question in the @ComunMagazin a German-language magazine dedicated to urbanism & politics. You can read the story and the magazine via https://t.co/JVLd6UVmgT

[Spread Stories, Not the Virus @spreadstories]

In the news:
Together with #FightForWuhan, our teammate Benny shared #spreadstoriesnotthevirus with @zhengwei75 and the @SCMPNews today. You can read the coverage here
https://t.co/0b5nlroIFC

[4CITIES - Urban Studies @4cities_eu]

A new milestone for @spreadstories, an initiative founded by our students.

From today onwards, Spanish speakers can (sp)read stories that provide insights on their cities and urban life during the #Covid19 pandemic. Follow @transmite_h & join us to #transmitehistoriasnoelvirus

[Transmite historias, no el virus @transmite_h]

“Spread Stories, Not the Virus!, ya llegó en Español. Ayúdanos a transmitir historias a los 400 millones de hispano-hablantes.

We keep spreading stories. Las historias no tienen fronteras.

¡Hagámoslo juntos!

Visitanos en: https://t.co/hHb8DIwFEa

@spreadstories

[LSE Inequalities @LSEInequalities]

"Our strange #coronavirus days, when life’s basic needs and rights have been reduced to luxuries": @Maureenashleigh in #Zimbabwe, via global words-and-images project @spreadstories https://t.co/8FKPwiDnnM

[4CITIES - Urban Studies @4cities_eu]

#Covid19 inspires many scholars around the world to reflect on past, current and future (urban) conditions. #ProgressiveGeographies has started to collect these publications and writings (see link). Spoiler: it is a looong list.

https://t.co/nDVKwzJskn

[4CITIES - Urban Studies @4cities_eu]

Great to see that @spreadstories has become a platform for urban researchers to share important and relevant findings of the impact of #Covid19 on cities. In our latest story @mattiasdebacker addresses the invisible consequences for vulnerable urban populations in #Brussels

[4CITIES - Urban Studies @4cities_eu]

Our storytelling platform @spreadstories was shared in the newsletter by @ZEITmagazin's editor-in-chief @ch_amend! It's amazing to see how major media outlets are acknowledging and endorsing the value of lockdown stories told by people across the globe #spreadstoriesnotthevirus

[Spread Stories, Not the Virus @spreadstories]

We’d love to share that we were mentioned in the latest newsletter of @ZEITmagazin editor-in-chief @ch_amend. Thank you for sharing Christoph and thanks to our contributors and readers who #spreadstoriesnotthevirus.
#CoronaVirusDE

[4CITIES - Urban Studies @4cities_eu]

What an amazing way to celebrate one month of @spreadstories! Our initiative is featured on the latest episode of @BBCWorld's Global News Podcast 📻🌍. On the day Trump announced to freeze @WHO funding, we need #globalsolidarity now more than ever.

[Spread Stories, Not the Virus @spreadstories]

Today we are excited to share that we got to present our platform at the @BBCWorld Global News Podcast 🌎. Marcela (@marcegarcialoza ) got to talk about the project and the stories we have collected from all over the globe. Listen in here! (Min. 23:20)

https://t.co/OvUXiZqlUZ

[4CITIES - Urban Studies @4cities_eu]

The journalist also interviewed one of our contributors Fethiye Beşir - thank you for highlighting the people that make the platform thrive!

[4CITIES - Urban Studies @4cities_eu]

How cool is this? The Istanbul-based newspaper @gazetekadikoy dedicated a feature story entirely to our initiative @spreadstories - published in their print edition as well as on their website (so check out the beautifully-written piece using your preferred translation web tool)

[Gazete Kadıköy @gazetekadikoy]

Korona virüsü salgını ve karantina süreci nasıl yaşanıyor, ne hissediliyor?
4CITIES Erasmus Mundus yüksek lisansının Kentsel Çalışmalar bölümü öğrencileri ve mezunlarından oluşan bir ekip, şehirlerin ve vatandaşların hikayelerini topluyor. https://t.co/r3OT6V9YzK

[4CITIES - Urban Studies @4cities_eu]

Stories like Luca's storybook are the reason why 12 of our students committed ourselves to spreading stories in times of #coronavirus and founded @spreadstories. Check out this beautiful storybook (in EN, IT, FR and ES) & 100+ other stories on their platform 🌎❤️

[Spread Stories, Not the Virus @spreadstories]

Luca is locked-down in his adopted home in southern UK; but his family remains in hard-hit Italy w/ whom he has collaborated on a picturebook, hoping to spread a story of hope & solidarity.

Flip thorugh the beautiful story here (ENG/IT/ESP/FR):
#COVID19

https://t.co/HKNgu3SeMY

[4CITIES - Urban Studies @4cities_eu]

Read more about the award and the 15 winning initiatives here: https://t.co/UoGAOHvse6

[4CITIES - Urban Studies @4cities_eu]

We're pleased to share that @spreadstories has been granted an award by the Chair in Social Entrepreneurship of @unicomplutense. Thanks to their support, we will be able to launch in Spanish soon. This award is dedicated to all our contributors & supporters around the 🌎

[@wojciechkeblowski.bsky.social @wkeblowski]

@4cities_eu students are the best. Here's a cookbook conconcted from their common meals and culinary experiments! https://t.co/2IDA9tk6ZT