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Urban design
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DIY Guide : How To Build A City From Scratch
From Songdo, South Korea to Lavasa, India via Egypt’s unnamed new capital, everywhere you look it seems someone’s…
Stacking Cases For Street Park Conversion To Bike Lanes
San Francisco is moving forward with a plan to add protected bike lanes on Polk Street, one of…
How Spaces Of Resilience Begins With Spaces For People
People need public spaces in bad times as well as good. Public spaces are very important when we…
More Trees Means Better Streets Means Amazing Cities
CITIES CAN IMPACT GLOBAL WARMING BY COOLING THEMSELVES WITH TREES Cities get hotter than surrounding areas due to…
A Case Study In Flawed Street Design
The New Urbanist neighborhood of Stapleton, Colorado, suffers from compromised planning standards. The above picture shows an example…
The Mind Of The City For The Future Of The City
Imagine, says Alberto Hernando de Castro, you are moving to a city. Maybe it’s New York, where hundreds…
Can Visionary Design Renew City Living
By the middle of this century, our cities are likely to be hotter, experience more dramatic changes in…
How To Create A City That Already Exists
In Europe 80% of the population lives in cities. The analysis of the economic, social, environmental and technological…
The Cost Of Bad Urban Design : $1 Trillion A Year
Exactly how much does America’s sprawl cost every year? Somewhere in the range of a trillion dollars, according…
These 10 Sliced Houses Are Residential Architectural Illusions
From suburbs to children’s toys, the iconic image of the simple five-sided section of a house is ubiquitous,…
The Best Active Designs That Help People Live Healthier Lives
Design influences our health and quality of life, for better or worse and in ways we might not…
Urban Sprawl Reversal In The Future
Did you know crowded cities take up only 2% of the earth’s surface, but generate around 80% of…
If Valley’s Tech Companies Built Cities Themselves
Welcome to i-Town. An artist imagines Google, Facebook, Apple, and Electronic Arts as self-contained urban hubs. …
Smaller Cities Unite
What does Copenhagen have in common with Providence, Rhode Island? Both are small cities known globally for…
Urban Environment Design And Bad Guys
Whose job is it to prevent crime? The police? The courts? Certainly. However, I’d argue that crime prevention…
Complete Streets 2.0 : The Transformation Of New Haven’s Streets
The city’s new approach puts an emphasis on fast, cheap, and lean designs. As a local activist in…
Smart Is As Smart Does. Stupid Just Does Nothing.
[infobox]I never realised how dumb our cities are until I saw what a smart one looks like.[/infobox] There’s…
Landscape Essential For Healthier Cities
The state of the nation’s health is rarely out of the news, and much has been written about…
Georges-Eugène Haussmann : Arrondissements & Boulevards
Paris, dubbed the ‘The City of Light’ (“La Ville Lumière”), one of the most beautiful cities in the…
Meanwhile Use, Long Term Benefit
‘Meanwhile use’ is a catch-all title adopted in recent years to describe a diverse range of pop-up cafés,…
Is Your City Too Smart For You?
Could pursuing the rational, clinical urbanism of smart cities destroy the charming chaos of traditional city life without…
What Makes A City Beautiful?
A provocative new video featuring Alain de Botton says beauty in urban settings must be objective—and to argue…
Yesterday’s Tomorrows : Future Visions Of Cities
‘A Visual History of the Future’ examines how future cities have been visualised over the last 100 years,…
Downtown Is For People
This is a classic article by Jane Jacobs originally published in Fortune Magazine in 1958. If the downtown…
If Women Built Cities, What Would Our Urban Landscape Look Like?
The number of women in UK architecture firms is falling, and many urbanists are worried by the ‘very,…
Designing For Daylight
Embracing daylight is critical to sustainable urban development. In our increasingly urbanised world, planning regulations and tools should…
Las Vegas’ Pedestrian-Friendly Shopping Mall
The LINQ, a new outdoor shopping district in Vegas, is betting on the profitability of human-scale urban design.…
Science For Designers: Scaling And Fractals
With apologies to real estate agents, we’d like to say that the three most important factors in design…
Los Angeles Renaissance And The Rise Of Street Vending
L.A. is the only one of America’s 10 largest cities where street vending is illegal. But that could…
The Network City
“Only connect,” the writer E. M. Forster said famously — and modern scientists working with network structures are…
How Crowdsourcing And Machine Learning Will Change The Way We Design Cities
Researchers at MIT Media Lab are using crowdsourced data to create an algorithm that determines how safe a…
The Hidden Ways Urban Design Segregates The Poor
There’s a name for uncomfortable benches, hard-to-reach parks, and ubiquitous surveillance: disciplinary architecture. When news emerged that a…
Better Design For Saving Pedestrians
New York city police are stepping up efforts to rein in jaywalkers after cars struck and killed several…
Rethinking Our Cities To Fight Obesity
Using urban planning to help fight obesity by putting people on a design-based diet that changes how they…