Urban counter-magnets demand tough choices.
Compared to their urban counter-parts, members of Australian rural communities, particularly farm men and women, are more likely to experience a range of negative health outcomes [ 1, 2].
These areas, forgotten and emptied by modernism, could in effect become precious resources, the sacred spaces of renewed urbanity, counter-spaces of a new urban geography.
New Urbanist towns and communities aim to champion the ideal of walkable, efficient neighbourhoods that counter urban sprawl.
In the last century, the high-rise (a common contemporary word for buildings 12 or more stories high) became a common tool, made of concrete, to counter urban sprawl and social inequality.
The look is American diner with a quirky urban twist, the counter lined with bar stools but sporting flowers and thrift-store pineapple lamps, the walls painted with naïve primary-coloured motifs, like the window display of a particularly inept tattoo parlour.
All over the world, heterogeneous groups of citizens have imagined and experimented with new collective actions to counter urban transformations producing social segregation, expulsions, erasure of public spaces and environmental destruction.
Coloured vs black, Zulu vs Xhosa, rural vs urban, revolutionary vs counter-revolutionary.
Unit 217, also known as Duvdevan meaning cherry in Hebrew, is the most notorious for carrying out covert missions in Palestinian territories with soldiers specially trained in carrying out urban warfare and counter-terrorism stings.
And just as denial of the lack of education equality and economic viability in urban ghettos created a counter culture in the '80s, which defined popular culture for better and worse, so the rejection of homosexuals will define the next decade or so, for better or worse.
