John Thackara
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John Thackara|Essays
Green Tourism: Why It Failed And How It Can Succeed
At a conference with 300 travel industry professionals, John Thackara ponders the successes, failures and potential in the Green Tourism industry.
John Thackara|Essays
Trust Is Not An Algorithm
By some accounts the world’s information is doubling every two years. This impressive if unprovable fact has got many people wondering: what to do with it?
John Thackara|Essays
Cycle Commerce As An Ecosystem
John Thackara reviews new products, services and ingredients needed to help a cycle commerce ecosystem flourish in India’s cities, towns and villages.
John Thackara|Essays
Paranoid But Pretty
A review of Matthias Megyeri's new show at the German Architecture Center, and a review of the question the exhibition inspires: "Are we safer?"
John Thackara|Essays
A Roof, A Skill, A Market
The Nubian Vault Association has evolved a unique approach to housing in West Africa that creates three kinds of value within local economies: a roof, a skill and a market.
John Thackara|Essays
Big, Hairy, and Agile
The UK government’s digital services platform, gov.uk, has won the Design of the Year award.
John Thackara|Essays
Cycle Commerce: The Red Blood Cells of a Smart City
Dehli's many millions of bicycle and rickshaw vendors embody the entrepreneurship, sustainable mobility, social innovation and thriving local economies, that a sustainable city needs. How can that be traslated to European cities?
John Thackara|Essays
An Open Design School for India
Plans in India for for a nationwide network of 20 Design Innovation Centres, an Open Design School, and a National Design Innovation Network.
John Thackara|Essays
German Government Think-Tank Supports Fringe Change Agents
Overview of the 400-page report World in Transition: A Social Contract for Sustainability from the German Advisory Council on Climate Change (WGBU), the heavyweight scientific body that advises the German Federal Government on ‘Earth System Megatrends’.
John Thackara|Essays
Venice: from Gated Lagoon to Bioregion
A review of the options that Venice faces in trying to shore up the city.
John Thackara|Essays
From Autobahn to Bioregion
A review of the projects submitted to the Audi Urban Future Award.
John Thackara|Essays
Transition Dogville
A review of this year’s Transition Conference in London.