Landscape

Urbe Apie
Occupying Land with Urbe Apie

Urbe Apie is an invitation to walk the city, to meet each other. 'Urbe' from urban, and 'a pie' means on foot, together it means let's walk, meet each other, and discover...

Urbe Apie
Jennifer Jones
Women Seek Solutions to Housing Woes | Hindsight from the 1980s

A Sistren Magazine republication originally released in 1989 authored by Jenny Jones. The St. Peter Claver project is making efforts to secure adequate housing for some ...

Jennifer Jones
Dorraine Duncan
Downtown Kingston: Space & Culture in the Capital City

The topic of revitalizing and redeveloping Downtown Kingston has been belabored, studied, and theorized in the public discourse for decades. Younger Jamaicans have only...

Dorraine Duncan
Carol Narcisse + Ann Hodges
Towards a Community Vision

The Golden Triangle Neighborhood Association and the Citizen's Right to the City, an alliance of 30 resident associations from across Kingston advocating for citizen...

Carol Narcisse + Ann Hodges
Howard Prendergast
Roads, drainage, and floods in Jamaica

Most of our urban areas are along the coast, which makes us even more vulnerable to coastal action. Places like Port Maria are pretty much located at or below sea level.

Howard Prendergast
Delia Ferguson
The Road You've Trod: A Look at Transportation 'Improvement' in The Bahamas

The recent Gladstone Road Improvement Project (GRIP) reveals a pattern of inappropriate and...

Delia Ferguson
Cyprine Odada
Critical Mass: A Cycling Revolution in Nairobi

Critical Mass Nairobi is a project that is reclaiming the streets from private motor cars and making the case for more sustainable forms of...

Cyprine Odada
Therese Braham
Access Denied: A Conversation with Therese Braham

Therese Braham shares her experiences living with cerebral palsy and navigating spaces designed to exclude her.

Therese Braham
Jhordan Channer
Gas Hikes without Bikes: How car dependency is a burden on our pockets

Our transportation system is distinctly car-dependent, which means we have a high level of...

Jhordan Channer
Shaun Lavis
Lessons from Bermuda: A conversation with Shaun Lavis

Our overarching goal is to protect Bermuda's environment and responsibly manage its natural resources.

Shaun Lavis
Katherine Agong
Moving Together in Port of Spain

We speak with Katherine Agong, a researcher in the Faculty of Engineering in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at The University of West Indies

Katherine Agong
Basil Fernandez
The Management of our Water Resources

We spoke with Basil Fernandez, the former Managing Director at the Water Resource Authority (WRA), who shared his perspectives on the state of our water resources in Jamaica.

Basil Fernandez
Dorraine Duncan
Dangerous by Design: Understanding Road Fatalities in Kingston & St. Andrew

With almost 500 persons killed in motor vehicle-related crashes in 2021, last year was the most violent year for road users across Jamaica in nearly 20 years. Each year since

Dorraine Duncan
Damart Williams
3 Million Trees in 3 Years: Urban Forestry in Jamaica

In time for Earth Day, we wanted to share our conversation with Damart Williams, the Senior Director for Zonal Operations in the Eastern Zone of the Forestry Department.

Damart Williams