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This section provides news about PASCAL together with significant developments in policy and research relating to the areas of interest to PASCAL. It is based on regular scanning of policy, practice and academic literature, including web-based sources.

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Apply to Host Placemaking Week 2024 | Placemaking Round-Up

This round-up from the Project for Public Spaces connects people who share a passion for public spaces to ideas and issues, news, quotes, places, and events from the placemaking movement.

NEP-SOC 2023-03-20, Five papers

In this issue we feature 5 current papers on the theme of social capital, chosen by Fabio Sabatini (Università degli Studi di Roma “La Sapienza”):

Invitation to Policies for Places

‘Place’ has always been one of the priority issues for PASCAL.  Readers may be interested to see the new newsletter Policies for Places being developed by John Tibbitt. It carries essays which explore the implications of a range of policies on the notion of place, including essays on learning and place and learning and urban planning.

More than schools and skills - learning as part of urban planning - John Tibbitt

John Tibbitt has recently published this essay which might be of interest to readers. It looks at the relationship between planning urban landscape and the learning landscape in city planning.

PIMA's latest Bulletin

The opening paragraph of the PIMA Bulletin for January 2023 states: Ethical adult educators cannot continue to provide the same old curricula as if the very existence of the planet were not in peril: we have a “response-ability” (Sterling and Martin, 2019) to contribute to the struggle for climate justice.

One of the many pressing questions we face is how do we unpick the false assumptions about the separation of humans from the more-than-human world – and why does it matter? In this bulletin we open up conversations on these complex issues.

 

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