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
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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 The design of cities are becoming increasing important as more than half the worlds population now live in urban environments. Over 540 planners from 22 countries have started to debate how to design walkable cities during Walk21, a four-day international conference that started on Sunday in Vancouver at the Olympic Village. The conference vision is “a global culture . . . → Read More: Turning car cities into pedestrian cities Harvard University has recently visited the National Center for Documentation and Research (NCDR) in the UAE to conduct a comprehensive research project focusing on sustainable urbanism in the Gulf region. The projects is connected to Qatar Foundation and will be the first of its kind drawing on the region’s environment, urbanism, architecture, and its society, culture . . . → Read More: Harvard University visits the Gulf Region to create Gulf Encyclopedia for Sustainable Urbanism Barangaroo is a large area of Sydney that is currently undergoing great change. Peter Walker has been appointed to design the Headland Park. The redevelopment of the area to natural headland is controversial with some members of the community as the try to understand why the current dock is not developed but returned to a natural . . . → Read More: Barangaroo Headland Park | Sydney | Peter Walker Interview [VIDEO] Hurricane Irene showed the vulnerability of some parts of the east coast where Hurricane rarely reach to but also highlighted the extent to which some areas along the coast have been developed without real acknoelegdement of the risks that they could be flooded by heavy rains and storm surge. Marc Santora has written a great article about the issues . . . → Read More: In the wake of Irene – did New York learn anything? On the 15th September, 148 additional signatories and several academics including Richard Florida, Paul Bedford, Eric J. Miller, Richard Sommer sent an open letter to the Toronto Councillors to raise their concern at the plans to change the control and development of the Lower Don Lands in Toronto. “We are writing to you at this time because we are extremely concerned that recent proposals . . . → Read More: Open Letter raises concerns over Toronto’s new waterfront plan |
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