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Even The Ancients Cared About Heritage Buildings Before Reinventing Them
In any debate on new construction in our urban centres you are likely to hear phrases like sustainable…
What Can Urban Planners Do To Promote Mental Health?
This group advocates designing cities with emotional well-being in mind. The Tokyo-based psychiatrist Layla McCay founded the Center…
Create To Regenerate : Cities Tap Into Talent For Urban Renewal
The creative industries – ranging from game development to architecture, media, design and the arts – are a…
Technology For Car Convenience At The Cost Of Pedestrian Casualties
One pedestrian is killed every two days on Australia’s roads, the majority in metropolitan areas. While advances in…
Renewing City To Core With Arts School, From Sydney And Beyond
National Art School (NAS) interim director Michael Lynch has committed to defending its continued independence from the University…
It Is Obvious To Begin With, Cities Are First & Foremost For People
The federal government’s recently released Smart Cities Plan is built on three pillars: smart investment, smart policy and…
Watch Suburbia Morph Into Green Squares In Cities Near You
The suburbs were the urban living format that defined Australian cities in the 20th century. Inevitably they’ve had…
Why A Privileged Sub-Urban Core For Sydney Will Destroy Its Soul
The New South Wales government is imposing an anti-urban legislative and development agenda on Sydney. This agenda conceptualises…
Urban Density: An Oversimplified Concept That Endanger Our Future
In debates about urban density, we often find comments about buildings being too tall or not tall enough,…
Not All Ills Of Urban Consolidation Is As Ugly As Media Reports
Neighbourhoods as “battlefields”, “sardine city”, traditional suburbs as “threatened species” and urban hubs as the domain of “latte-sipping…
Why & How Perth Is Testing If Its Strategy Is Really Working
City planning has many approaches that have been used to enable better economic, social and environmental outcomes. The…
The Promise Of City Scale Government As It Should Be
For residents of Australia’s cities, federalism means state governments have the right to assert what is in their…
London Is The World’s Best City? Nature Or Nurture?
Are great places created, or do they just happen? This question is receiving a great deal of attention…
Making Your Cities More Beautiful With Living Heritage
Architects, urban planners and government policymakers often aspire to make Australian cities more like Copenhagen. But, for issues…
How Sandtown, Baltimore Reinvents Itself With Community Planning
Across the United States thousands of once thriving working class neighborhoods are boarded up, but few are in…
Gil Penalosa : Citizens Can’t Be Spectators In Urban Planning
Gil Penalosa wants you to act now. So it’s a good thing that when he’s expounding on how…
10 Cities That Are Shaping The Future Of Urban Living
Cities are frequently at the front line of innovation when it comes to addressing the changing problems of…
What Makes People Use Public Transport?
As traffic congestion continues growing in urban areas, more and more cities have realized that investment priority should…
A Limit To Urban Height In Vancouver
We don’t always have to build up to fit more people into a city. Vancouver and Seattle offer…
Why Old Ways Of Getting Around Cities Is Clashing With Current Realities
Cities are complex systems. One visible artery of the city is traffic – the cluster of moving people…
To Get Less Drunken Violence, Design Better Cities
Tragically, another young life has been lost in an alleged one-punch assault, this time in Brisbane’s Fortitude Valley.…
Why Modern Cities Kills Nightingale’s Song
The Commons apartment building in the inner Melbourne suburb of Brunswick has won swags of awards, including the…
Start Asking People What They Want From The Smart Cities Of The Future
“Future cities, where infrastructure adapts to our needs, offer an enticing prospect.” But who is in the driving…
Singapore + Copenhagen = Smart City Fusion
To mark the 50th anniversary of close bilateral ties between Singapore and Denmark, the two countries came together…
Migrants Are The Key Source Of Vitality For Cities, Plan Well
The world’s population is becoming increasingly urban. Sometime in 2007 is usually reckoned to be the turning point…
Liveable Cities : Who Decides What That Means And How We Achieve It
The Conversation has appointed a cities and policy editor to lead our coverage of the myriad issues affecting…
Why Lego Is For Both Fun Play And Serious Work
MIT wants to make transportation planning more transparent—and a bit more fun. MIT researchers unveiled something earlier this…
How Should We Design Cities To Make The Most Of Urban Ecosystems?
Back in 1839, public health expert J F Murray published his article The Lungs of London, in Blackwood’s…
How To Build In Neighbourhoods With Lean Methodology
In some ways, is a rejection of wonk — a way to show and not tell. That characterization comes…
How Future Cities May Look More Like Natural Forest And Why It Matters
With its broad strokes of thinking and long-term implementation, urban planning isn’t the most exciting thing. But planning…
How Successful, Leading Cities Solve Problems Globally
“How do some of the most successful, leading cities in the world solve their problems? They steal the…
How To Create A Sustainable Community With Public Works
Communities both big and small are having a sustainable makeover in order to reduce energy demand, utilise renewable…
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…
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…
What’s The Perfect Size For A City?
The world’s cities are sprawling over their boundaries, fragmenting into smaller parts run by competing regional governments. But…
How Smells Of The City Can Now Be Seen
There are many ways to map a city: a basic street map, a neighborhood breakdown, by demographics. Now,…
How To Make Infrastructure Sexy
INFRASTRUCTURE IS VITAL, BUT TOTALLY BORING. ONE CHICAGO AGENCY TRIES TO SPICE THINGS UP WITH DATA VIZ. Infrastructure…
Well Done Vancouver! Well Done Planners!
Much of my life’s work is based on the optimistic assumptions that people are basically intelligent and so…
What’s The Best Way To Plan A City?
A lot of municipalities want to plan for more sustainable urban growth and are applying fairly rigid urban…
Triumph Of The Public Space In Copenhagen
Copenhagen is often praised for its commitment to cycling and infrastructure. With 41% of all trips citywide done…
Model Village Lessons
Visiting a new settlement planned on utopian principles during my travels through France this summer set me…
Walkonomics And The High Line Effect
Investing in walkable public spaces should be a no-brainer; they can be a catalyst for regeneration, make…
People Need More Energy Than Blue Whales
Geoffrey West doesn’t eat lunch. His doctor says he has a mild allergy to food; meals make him…
Throwback Thursday : Forgotten Plans For NYC Worth Looking Into
New Yorkers can be thankful that some of the “great ideas” of past visionaries never made it into…
Wellington NZ’s 10-year Plan
Infographic references as shared with Citi IO, courtesy of our good friends from Grow Wellington. Thank you.
What A 2-Year-Old Can Teach Us About City Planning
Eric Feldman is used to viewing his neighbourhood through a designer’s lens. Lately, however, he’s found himself observing…
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…
How Is China Transforming Its Cities?
China is showing the rest of the world how to expand and transform its cities. The speed and…
Planning Healthy Cities, A British Approach
The trend for urban populations to be healthier than their rural counterparts is known as the ‘urban health…
Georges-Eugène Haussmann : Arrondissements & Boulevards
Paris, dubbed the ‘The City of Light’ (“La Ville Lumière”), one of the most beautiful cities in the…