Samer M Saliba

Migration: Cities at the Forefront

This post was originally published for 100 Resilient Cities. You can find the original post here.

There are an estimated 59,000 refugees and asylum seekers currently in Greece. Many have made sites and streets within the cities of Athens and…

Coming from the urban planning field, count me among those who had the “you don’t do this already?!” reaction. Planning, in its modern sense, is almost as old as humanitarianism and has likewise been long struggling to best reflect the opinions and desires of those it seeks to help. Key questions for me are:

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