While the “15-minute city” model promotes neighborhood-level urban planning, Sweden is pursuing a hyper-local twist: a scheme to redesign every street in the nation.
The project will include wider sidewalks, improved traffic design, safer pedestrian crossings and various aesthetic improvements to the section of Green Street from Fourth Street to Neil Street.
Completed in 2022 in Montreal, Canada. Images by Raphaël Thibodeau. Agora Maximus is an innovative pedestrianization project that pushes the boundaries of tactical urbanism by proposing highly durable, integrated, and...
Add some street art style to your designs with our Graffiti pack. This collection of 60 graffiti tags and 15 distressed overlays is sure to deliver the perfect touch of urban grunge to your next project. All files are high resolution transparent PNGs that can be drag and dropped into your editing software of choice.
Imagen 3 de 3 de la galería de Autoridad del Espacio Público, la oficina pública de México que busca 'redistribuir la experiencia de la ciudad'. Cortesía de AEP
We’ve all heard about complete streets — streets that provide access to everyone, with ample space for pedestrians, bicyclists, cars, and buses. But, at GreenBuild in Los Angeles, a gro…
Woonerf é um termo de origem holandesa e significa algo como rua de convívio. A ideia é de uma rua compartilhada entre pedestres, bicicletas, crianças brincando e até mesmo carros. E como uma rua s…
As much as we love temporary stunts, happenings, art installations and large-scale sculpture in the urban space, we want more.
These contemporary modern bench are so smart. The artist combine nature with concrete, and the results are amazing.
Image 17 of 20 from gallery of Skateboarding, Architecture and Urbanism. V-Plaza Urban Development / 3deluxe architecture. Photo: © Norbert Tukaj
From the jury statement: As a part of a larger planning scheme for reducing traffic, Ballerup Boulevard provides a pilot project for transforming our car-oriented, oversized streets into multi-functional transit ways with human scale and character. The charming yet straight-forward design language of path geometries and planting beds allows the user to move through a coherent whole and at the same time differentiates sequence of spaces. Over time the plantings will create a lush, dense green corridor.
Creative crosswalks are increasingly popular—except among the disabled. By Timothy A. Schuler A group of disability rights organizations raised concerns about a mural crosswalk in London’s Bankside neighborhood. Photo courtesy Better Bankside. Viewed by both designers and departments of transportation as an inexpensive way to improve the public realm, street murals that embellish or sometimes even
The New York City Street Design Manual provides policies and design guidelines to city agencies, design professionals, private developers and community groups for the improvement of streets and sidewalks throughout the five boroughs. It is intended to serve as a comprehensive resource for promoting higher quality street designs and more efficient project implementation.
Note: NACTO is in the process of updating the Urban Bikeway Design Guide! Throughout 2022 and 2023, NACTO will release the next chapters of bike design guidance in the form of working papers that…
Lab D+H: Located in Guangzhou, Vanke Cloud City Phase 2 is a pioneer mixed use development project in China. It is composed of four residential towers with over 5000 small apartments (8-35 sq.m) surrounded by fashionable commercial frontage. This project is one of the first small apartment projects in China, aiming to satisfy the young […]
Urban planning is not a modern phenomenon but it has been evolving since ancient times. For example, when railways were introduced, it was a big achievement for humankind. Similarly, no one thought that high rise buildings would ever be possible during our human existence. However, mankind made great progress and started creating all kinds of things that made life simpler.
Walk DVRC is a pedestrianization plan to turn 1 km of Des Vouex Road Central in downtown Hong Kong into a park. The area is filled with banks, offices and shops but the sidewalk are over congested to allow a sustainable and walkable downtown. The project called for a partial pedestrianization so...
Design via Sasaki AssociatesAfter nearly four months of gathering information and gauging interest in redesigning City Hall Plaza, Mayor Marty Walsh's Request for Ideas (RFI) has come to a close. That means the City of Boston is one step closer to overhauling one of the most polarizing urban landscapes this side of the prime meridian.Sasaki Associates – which has had a hand in such local and increasingly popular projects as The Lawn on D, Sea Change: Boston and the Bruce C. Bolling Building – responded to the mayor's RFI in innovative fashion.Taking to the Twittersphere, Sasaki brass solicited ideas directly from Boston residents and non-natives on what they'd like to see change on City Hall Plaza, or, if not changed completely, added or subtracted.They compiled responses on cards, shared them on social media using the hashtags #PlazaPlus and #CityHallPlaza, and sifted through the innumerable hopes and wishes for the approximately eight-acre sprawl of brick and concrete."Re-envisioning
the artwork's 1 kilometer span is made up of 180,000 resin-colored balls organized in an 18-tone sequence.
HASSELL: Nicholson Street Mall, located in the centre of the Melbourne suburb of Footscray, is the primary civic space for the local community, serving as its commercial and social hub and representing the identity and aspirations of the municipality. Pedestrianised in the 1970s, the mall was the first of its kind in Australia and represented […]
The design derives from the contemporary needs of a functional yet attractive pedestrian street in the city center. We aimed to create an inviting street on a human scale with a unique and clear identity. Design concepts focused on richness in experience, timelessness and small scale. The city’s main shopping street targets a unique identity […]
Urban design compendium; The Urban Design Compendium has been prepared for English Partnerships and the Housing Corporation by Llewelyn-Davies in association with Alan Baxter and Associates
Local streets in residential neighborhoods are often underutilized as spaces for play and leisure. These streets should provide safe and inviting places to walk with direct access to local stores and…
Découvrez ce superbe stade de Basket Duperré à Paris, a a été relooké d'une magnifique façon, coloré et encastré entre 2 bâtiments, ce terrain de basket doit
Streets comprise more than 80% of public space in cities, but they often fail to provide their surrounding communities with a space where people can safely walk, bicycle, drive, take transit…
Urban planning is not a modern phenomenon but it has been evolving since ancient times. For example, when railways were introduced, it was a big achievement for humankind. Similarly, no one thought that high rise buildings would ever be possible during our human existence. However, mankind made great progress and started creating all kinds of things that made life simpler.
