Heat Tax: Women, Heritage and Mobility in Old Lahore
‘The Heat Tax: Women, Heritage and Mobility in Old Lahore’ by our Global URBAN HEAT Media Lab network member Anushey Tahir is an essay exploring heritage asContinue Reading
Public Transit Research, Writing & Advocacy Roundup
From its inception in 2020 as a media platform, and later an established NGO, Pedestrian Space has prioritized a focus on walkability including attention to accessible, affordable,Continue Reading
Memories of Heat: Summer 2026 in the UK
In these early stages of the Global URBAN HEAT Media Lab, members are sharing narratives and memories of heatwaves as well as what motivated them to wantContinue Reading
Heat Memories from NYC
Narrative at the Global URBAN HEAT Media Lab Substack by one of our academic interns and NYC-based network members, Julia Reich, who reflects on experiencing urban heatContinue Reading
Market & Community
At my local market, in a neighbourhood and city I’ve now lived in for almost 4 months, I’ve already begun to develop rapport with the vendors whoseContinue Reading
Spaces of Art & Cooling in Tehran
Maybe Spaces of Art Can Provide Relief from the Summer Heat’, a narrative on urban heat memories from the summer of 2026 in Tehran by Mahkameh Rezaeisalim,Continue Reading
New Mobility Congress (2025) Reflection
I recently came across the coverage from the New Mobility Congress 2025: https://auto.dziennik.pl/artykuly/9896863,kluczem-do-wygodnej-i-dostepnej-mobilnosci-jest-wsluchiwanie-sie-w-pot.html In it, I’m referenced from my time on one of the panels, as areContinue Reading
New Mobility Congress 2026
Some of the official Congress photos from our ‘Pedestrians First!’ panel at the Kongres Nowej Mobilności | New Mobility Congress in Katowice this week. Last year IContinue Reading
Urban Heat Talk: Veljko Armano Linta
As part of the Pedestrian Space ‘Global URBAN HEAT Media Lab’ and network in development, we are recording our conversations with incoming collaborators around the world, asContinue Reading
Global URBAN HEAT Media Lab: Insight on Activities of Interest
Over the past two and 1/2 months, we have been welcoming and onboarding people to the pilot first year of the Global URBAN HEAT Media Lab, anContinue Reading