Editions
Explore GTR editions 70–88 and the ideas they bring into the conversation about African buildings, cities and flourishing.
This website archive begins with edition 70. For earlier publications, explore GTR on LinkedIn.
Special editions & milestones
Smart technology brings possibilities. Making them work requires people, resources and continuing care. This edition examines who pays, who benefits and who maintains the systems that shape everyday life in our buildings.
Follow the home outward: through entrances, courtyards and grounds, into shared spaces and the wider neighbourhood. This edition explores the connections and continuing care that help everyday life flourish beyond the house.
Before commissioning another building, look again at what already stands. This edition explores renovation, adaptive reuse and practical ways to help existing buildings serve people better and for longer.
A practical examination of inclusive and universal design—asking how buildings can accommodate more human difference with dignity, adaptability and care across time.
How design, repairability, local skills and clear responsibility help buildings keep serving people long after handover—and keep sustainability working across time.
A human-centred argument for using AI to expand sustainable-design intelligence without surrendering professional judgement, contextual knowledge or responsibility.
An invitation to treat trees, soils, wetlands, waterways and other living systems as essential infrastructure—not decoration added after the important decisions are made.
A practical argument for seeing buildings as evolving assemblies of valuable materials—and for considering change, repair, reuse and disassembly from the first sketch.
A broader measure of sustainable building—one that includes clean air, natural light, comfort, dignity, recovery, concentration and belonging alongside resource efficiency.
A focused look at shade, vegetation, airflow, water, materials and urban form—and how intentional design can make rapidly warming cities healthier and more comfortable.
A practical shift from flood control to water stewardship—showing how rainfall, buildings, landscapes, drainage, wetlands and public spaces can work together as one urban water system.
A World Environment Day special edition connecting heat, floods, drought, biodiversity loss and resource pressure with everyday decisions in buildings, streets and cities—and the responsibility to build better.
A living-systems view of urbanism that asks cities to replace machine logic with care, connection and adaptability—and draws a practical lesson from Medellín’s transformation.
A year-end reflection that moves the built-environment conversation from reducing harm towards creating the conditions for human, ecological and community flourishing.
A UN World Peace Day special edition connecting environmental stewardship, resource justice and inclusive places with the everyday work of healing, dialogue and peacebuilding.
An introduction to Symbiature—Denis Akabogu’s Humane, Green and Smart design philosophy—and its proposition for bringing people, nature and intelligent systems into a more regenerative relationship.
A forward look at net-positive buildings, circular construction, bio-based materials, artificial intelligence, living systems and other trends shaping sustainable design in 2025.
A look at schools and universities as places where sustainable design, healthier learning environments and environmental education can shape the habits of future generations.
A practical case for involving communities in green-building decisions—combining local knowledge, shared learning and co-design to create places people can sustain over time.
Special editions & milestones
Published outside the regular numbered sequence, these editions preserve important moments in the life of Green Thinking Review and its growing community.
Celebrating GTR's dedicated website and thanking the readers and Green Thinkers who have helped the conversation grow. A new home for editions, ideas and practical insights that remain useful beyond the social-media feed.
A one-page milestone note thanking the readers, subscribers and contributors who helped Green Thinking Review grow into a community of 1,000 Green Thinkers.
