From an intersection in San Francisco to a small parking lot in Brooklyn, city planners and urban designers are finding new ways to use city space.
Architecture firm Patterns turns an Los Angeles 1940s building into a senior care facility, resisting the car centricity of the area.
Amazing before-and-after images of people-friendly public spaces.
Explore how urban gardeners are transforming concrete jungles into verdant oases
Smart cities in the Middle East are leveraging IoT (Internet of Things) technologies to drive urban transformation and create more sustainable, efficient, and livable urban environments. With the rapid urbanization and population growth in the region, smart city initiatives are becoming essential to address various urban challenges. Here are some ways IoT
Transforming Scandinavia’s largest student housing from grey concrete line to green social spine.
Ideas that shape the city of the future.
Incredible before-and-after images of people-friendly public spaces.
With the world‘s stark urbanization, the engagement of citizens to improve their urban environments is also growing. Far from the traditional urban planning culture, they make use of limited resources, offering solutions to face urban challenges. They focus on the provision of social infrastructure at the local scale. Handmade Urbanism showcases 15 projects realized mostly in less favored areas of five major cities in emerging countries, examining the potential of urban transformation embedded in community initiatives. What is the basis for such initiatives? Which are the instruments and tools they use? Illustrations and interviews depict their operational modes and reveal the different stakeholders involved. At a global level, common threads and differences are made clear. The book drafts a possible urban vision of the city impacted by those processes and organizes a discussion that promotes participatory initiatives while exploring their potential to impact on the city at large.
The symbiotic city: a city that has been re-embedded into nature, one that safeguards the resources of our planet and restores biodiversity. One where soil, water, wind, and living organisms are reconnected in the urban environment. This is not a utopia, as many cities are becoming more symbiotic already. It is a story of hope about how we can restore social and ecological justice in our cities.
The article showcases the Circular Walkway project in Amsterdam, highlighting urban renewal, sustainability, and community engagement in architecture.
The innovative company Urb-I is on a mission to convert these swamp-covered lots and over-crowded streets into...
The Spoke Beverage Room by OFFICE COASTLINE merges café culture with bicycling and music, creating a multifunctional lifestyle hub in Shanghai.
The Dutch architectural firm presents a design solution for unused, urban spaces with Tainan Spring’s masterplan, which is replete with water bodies and local plant varieties.
Amazing before-and-after images of people-friendly public spaces.
The innovative company Urb-I is on a mission to convert these swamp-covered lots and over-crowded streets into...
Architecture firm Patterns turns an Los Angeles 1940s building into a senior care facility, resisting the car centricity of the area.
40 Before and After Photos of Architecture and Urban Transformation Projects. Images of Urban Spaces across the world experiance radical transformations.
The article showcases the Circular Walkway project in Amsterdam, highlighting urban renewal, sustainability, and community engagement in architecture.
Discover innovative container gardening tips to make the most of small urban living areas. From sustainable practices to community initiatives, cultivate a thriving urban garden oasis.
The Spoke Beverage Room by OFFICE COASTLINE merges café culture with bicycling and music, creating a multifunctional lifestyle hub in Shanghai.
Given the environmental straits we find ourselves in at present, architects and policy makers have to rethink our strategy of how to shape the city.
