This new 5 acre public park has a series of elegant garden squares linked by both structured and informal landscapes to compliment Sir Terry Farrell’s original Masterplan. The ‘Lost River...
Reclaiming the core of the old city could require block-by-block redevelopment, at least according to the plans presented last night in Haiti by the architect Andrés Duany and his firm Duany Plater-Zyberk & Company.
Incredible before-and-after images of people-friendly public spaces.
The new urban reality is that cars are both necessary and, at times, undesirable. Large, dense cities with high traffic volumes are opting for a new urban street type - pedestrian - and its close relative, managed vehicular access only. New technology comes to their aid; retractable, card activated bollards. This combination produces a fused grid (see Wikipedia and albums) regular streets for all modes and special streets that are preferential to pedestrian movement and enjoyment. Thanks to Christina Grammenos, the photographer
In addition to the Architecture, Interior Design and Construction Product categories, a new category - Landscape Architecture has been introduced, allowing companies to submit a variety of outstanding conceptual, in-progress or completed projects for the prestigious BLT Built Design Awards
Designing a sophisticated city, one block at a time.
Three major flaws with the idea that most city interstates are here to stay.
The Holloway Team was selected as the winners of New Zealand's international 'Breathe - The New Urban Village Project' design competition. The ...
Designed by Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG), the courtyard at VIA 57 West is a private park within a pyramid—and a 22,000 sf open air greenroof.
Public squares remain a symbol of our human need to communally congregate but have also evolved into multifunctional hubs that are more than just places..
Taking on the key issues in urban design, Shaping the City examines the critical ideas that have driven these themes and debates through a study of particular cities at important periods in their development. As well as retaining crucial discussions about cities such as Los Angeles, Atlanta, Chicago, Detroit, Philadelphia, and Brasilia at particular moments in their history that exemplified the problems and themes at hand like the mega-city, the post-colonial city and New Urbanism, in this new edition the editors have introduced new case studies critical to any study of contemporary urbanism - China, Dubai, Tijuana and the wider issues of informal cities in the Global South. The book serves as both a textbook for classes in urban design, planning and theory and is also attractive to the increasing interest in urbanism by scholars in other fields. Shaping the City provides an essential overview of the range and variety of urbanisms and urban issues that are critical to an understanding of contemporary urbanism.
Incremental approaches are often cheaper, faster, or have less risk than sudden approaches. Let’s explore different types of incrementalism.
Image 4 of 13 from gallery of Where Will the Children Play? How to Design Stimulating and Safe Cities for Childhood. via Cities for Play. Designing Child Friendly High Density Neighbourhoods
Arcology, Gestalt ,Ekistics, Ecumenopolis, Principles of intelligent urbanism, Transit Oriented Development, Permaculture , Ergonomics, Biomimetics, Urban design , Garden city movement, Smart growth, Walkability, Urban planning, Green-collar worker,...
With farmland being lost in the United States at 1 acre per minute, we need to rethink how we live and how we grow food. If you want to see more cool posts like this, check Flannel Farms out on Facebook
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Clean energy technology is more advanced than ever before and can be as beneficial for your wallet as it is for the Earth. But what exactly is green construction technology?
Image 1 of 29 from gallery of 5 Winning Ideas to Fill New York City's Most Challenging Sites. © Michael Sorkin Studio
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The suburban landscape consists largely of endless expanses of paved parking lots pocked with strip malls, gas stations, chain restaurants, and McMansions. Rather than razing these structures with the aim of greening the suburbs, Galina Tahchieva proposes
Image 12 of 21 from gallery of Tirana 2030: Watch How Nature and Urbanism Will Co-Exist in the Albanian Capital. New public schools will act as focal points for city neighborhoods. Image Courtesy of Attu Studio
Utile worked with the City of Boston and the nonprofit A Better City to develop design and process guidelines for tactical activation of the public realm. The project began with an audit of existin…
Image 2 of 13 from gallery of Loop NYC Wants to Bring Driverless Expressways and Green Corridors to Manhattan. © Edg
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This publication was a collaborative effort. It is a guidebook to help the residence of Eugene, Oregon make a change in their community.
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SCAPE teamed with ENNEAD Architects to reimagine the exterior 25,000 square foot public plaza surrounding the iconic and historic Hall of Science in Queens, New York. The Hall of Science was built for the 1964 New York World’s Fair in Flushing Meadows- Corona Park. In its original design, the terrace consisted of hardscape with a
A project of Design:SD • Illustrations by Paul H. Boerboom, AIA, and Jeremy Altman, Assoc. AIA Adapted primarily from: AIA’s Ten Principles for Livable Communities, with inspiration from Minnesota Design Team and several other sources When you start designing projects for your community, how do you know they will actually work—that whatever you build will ...
Has the New Urbanism outlived its original purpose? The movement's charismatic founder, Andrés Duany, seems to think so.
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Image 9 of 21 from gallery of Rosari 70 House / Manuel Sánchez Hernández. Photograph by Milena Villalba
