Measuring Domains for Thriving City
Mapping the Domains of the Harvard Flourishing Program onto the UN Sustainable Development Goals: Implications for Thriving Cities Key Finding: The domains of the Harvard Flourishing Program substantially overlap with several core United Nations Sustainable...Prospective Thriving Cities: Copenhagen, Osaka, and Melbourne
The Global Liveability Index (GLI) served as the initial screening instrument for identifying candidate thriving cities. Published annually by the Economist Intelligence Unit, the Index evaluates 173 global cities across five domains: stability, healthcare, culture...The Thriving City
Although the terms flourishing and thriving are often used interchangeably in academic and policy discourse, they represent analytically distinct constructs with important implications for human development and urban design. Flourishing is broadly conceptualized as a...The Capabilities Approach and the Foundations of a Thriving City
The Capabilities Approach, as articulated by Amartya Sen and Martha Nussbaum, offers a robust normative framework for evaluating well-being and justice in social arrangements, including the urban context. Rather than focusing solely on economic growth or resource...The Capabilities Approach Explained
Imagine you’re measuring your quality of life. Do you look at your income? Your degrees? Maybe your level of happiness on a good day? The Capabilities Approach invites you to think deeper. Instead of focusing on what you have or how you feel, it asks: what are you...
What is a Learning Encounter?
A learning encounter is an intentionally designed experience that aims to facilitate meaningful learning. It begins with inviting students to participate in an experience. The experience will include interaction with others in a physical experience. For example,...
Do you want a better marriage? Stop being so confident.
Do you want a better marriage? Stop being so confident. What happens when we’re confident about our relationships is we start neglecting them. We don’t spend the amount of time or money that are necessary to maintain or improve those relationships. We...
If you want a better marriage, let go of your grudge
Do you want a better marriage? Let go of your grudge. A grudge is a feeling of resentment that you might have because of an insult or some kind of injury in the past. And it may be very valid. I’m not saying that the hurt feelings you might hold aren’t...Most Popular Courses
