View from roof into the yard of a highrise building in Kyiv, Ukraine. Image from torange.us, CC-By 4.0.
In most urban high-rises with dozens of apartments, communication between neighbors usually amounts to “good morning” grunts in the elevator or occasional passive-aggressive notes about trash or parking taped to the entrance door. To improve this state of things, activists in Ukraine’s capital, Kyiv, have launched an online community platform to encourage residents of urban apartment buildings to self-organize. The platform, called “Zhyteli” (Dwellers), is aimed at arming urbanites with the tools to communicate with their neighbors more effectively to create a more …read more
Source: Global Voices
