The City of Melbourne in Australia has developed an urban forest strategy as the expect to lose 27% of the city’s tree population in the next decade and 44% in the next twenty years. As the world’s most liveable city it realises that trees are a major part of the livability and that action needs to . . . → Read More: Melbourne’s Urban Forest Strategy
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Rahul Mehrotra, Professor and Chair Department of Urban Planning and Design, Harvard Graduate School of Design led in a discussion with Hiteshkumar M. Hathi, Producer, NPR’s ‘Here and Now.’ gave a lecture ‘The Future of South Asia: A Landscape of Pluralism’ on Friday, October 21, 2011 at Harvard GSD. Sadly, the organisers have disallowed embedding but . . . → Read More: The Future of South Asia: A Landscape of Pluralism – Rahul Mehrotra [VIDEO] AECOM has named the finalists in its annual Urban SOS student competition. Three student teams will fly to London to present a master jury at the New London Architecture(NLA) Gallery on November 10, 2011 and compete for $15,000 prize money. This year’s competition centers on issues related to urban water challenges and drew a range of entries from around the . . . → Read More: Urban SOS Student Competition Finalists announced India is currently going through a stage of rapid urbanisation that only matching the scale of future growth that has been seen in the last few decades in China. With urbanisation is the design and construction of many residential compounds some of which are more desirable than others. As residents are looking for more green areas . . . → Read More: Green aesthetics catching on in India TU Delft is to participate in the RainGain project, which was recently awarded a European subsidy. The project includes such aspects as the placing of rain radar in Rotterdam, which is specialised in local precipitation measurement. This will enable precipitation patterns in the city to be measured much more accurately and urban water management to be . . . → Read More: TU Delft is to participate in the RainGain Urban water management project USA Today gave a quick summary of some USA cities and their recent actions to adapt to climate change including climate plans, green roofs, feasibility studies and more. Researchers at Yale, Stanford and Arizona State, have recently published A Meta-Analysis of Global Urban Land Expansion that analyses 326 studies that used remotely sensed images to map urban land conversion. The paper has many conclusions and items for discussion including that “urban areas in low elevation coastal zones are growing faster than elsewhere” and that urbanisation . . . → Read More: A Meta-Analysis of Global Urban Land Expansion |
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