We will continue to grow up together!

Planning to Grow Together

This article concerns the role of children in our communities. A review of research shows that children play a limited role in the decision making processes that shapes their environment. What is more, as they have become increasingly dependent on parental cars for activities and travel, children are loosing touch with their immediate neighbourhoods, a trend reflected in the declining number of...

Will Baby Faces Ever Grow up?

For a discussion about user interfaces for small screens, so-called baby faces, it might be interesting to start with considering another type of “baby faces” – namely, real ones. Until quite recently, human children were perceived as being basically smaller versions of adults, who were just waiting to become strong and educated enough to take their productive place in the grown-ups’ society. B...

Will we wake up to biodiversity?

The United Nations’ (UN) International Year of Biodiversity in 2010 was supposed to see the adoption of measures that would slow global environmental decline and the continuing loss of endangered species and habitats. Even before, in 2002, most UN members had committed to halting the decline in biodiversity, which is a measure of the health of ecosystems. But the results of these international ...

Children & Cities : Planning to Grow Together

This article concerns the role of children in our communities. A review of research shows that children play a limited role in the decision making processes that shapes their environment. What is more, as they have become increasingly dependent on parental cars for activities and travel, children are loosing touch with their immediate neighbourhoods, a trend reflected in the declining number of...

Where are we going with drugs to treat MS? Will cost continue to increase?