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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John Danahy is a professional Landscape Architect, Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture at University of Toronto, and has developed an internationally recognized expertise in digital media for design, planning and visualization. During the video(10:28) he presents a brief history of his use of visualization programs and then goes on to discuss how he used visualization tools . . . → Read More: Visualization Tools used for Lakeview Legacy project – John Danahy UToronto [VIDEO] Back in February this year we reported on the doco-film Urbanized by Gary Hustwit who was at the time raising funding for the final cut of the film. We are happy to say that the film is now being showing in theaters all over the USA for the last month also had special screenings in Vancouver . . . → Read More: ‘Urbanized’ showing in theaters The High Line received a $20 million donation from Diller – von Furstenberg Family Foundation. The unprecedented pledge made by Barry Diller and Diane von Furstenberg will support afundraising effort by Friends of the High Line to transform the final, undeveloped section of the High Line at the West Side Rail Yards between West 30th and West . . . → Read More: High Line receives donation for final undeveloped section The Australian Government has recently published the “State of Australian Cities 2011″ report (PDF Link) that gives “a better understanding of how our cities work, the report also identifies the specific initiatives of local councils and state planning authorities which are proving effective at promoting more productive, sustainable and liveable urban communities.” At the same time . . . → Read More: Australia publishes cities report & launches Liveable Cities program New York Magazine have published ‘Urban Global Design’ for the Fall Design edition. The issue has various articles relating to Urban Global design including ‘City as a lab’, What New York Can Steal From Hong Kong which looks at urban density, Surveying the Best in Urban Innovation, and many other great articles and slideshows that will fill . . . → Read More: Urban Global Design: Fall Design 2011 New York Magazine The ULI/Gerald D. Hines Student Urban Design Competition, now in its tenth year, is an urban design and development challenge for graduate students. The Hines Competition challenges multidisciplinary student teams to devise a comprehensive development program for a real, large-scale site. Student teams comprising at least three disciplines have two weeks to develop solutions that include . . . → Read More: 10th Annual Urban Land Institute/Gerald D. Hines Student Urban Design Competition Some of the big questions in urban design revolve around urbanisation and where & how we are going to live in the future. The Guardian newspaper in partnership with Ove Arup Foundation has started publishing a ‘The future of living’ series. Some of the first articles are very promising and I will continue to blog about new articles when . . . → Read More: Future of Urban Living Series Toronto is currently undergoing some interesting discusses about the waterfront and urban design with a Mayor wishing to change the current master plans to include retail development and a ferris wheel (another one?). We recently reported about the Open Letter raises concerns over Toronto’s new waterfront plan signed by numerous well know urban planners, architects etc. After . . . → Read More: Waterfront Toronto Update How do we study cities and urban design? How do we know what works? There are many methods for studying urban areas from spatial analysis, building densities, floor ratios, building heights, green areas, road widths, transit and many other factors that we study to see what makes a city work or fail. Andres Sevtsuk, a lecturer at . . . → Read More: Urban Network Analysis toolbox software from MIT |
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