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14 cities around the world that are better for pedestrians than people with cars

  • August 12, 2019
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Living Cities Forum 2019 Melbourne highlights

  • May 24, 2019
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Taming wild cities: the tall buildings of Australia show why we need strong design guidelines

  • May 24, 2019
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10th International Urban Design Conference

  • April 27, 2017
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European researchers prove Jane Jacobs was right

  • July 28, 2016
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14 cities around the world that are better for pedestrians than people with cars

  • August 12, 2019
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Cities: Back to Ground Zero?

  • August 12, 2019
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WHAT’S UP WITH THAT: BUILDING BIGGER ROADS ACTUALLY MAKES TRAFFIC WORSE

  • August 8, 2019
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Can parks help cities fight crime?

  • August 6, 2019
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For green cities to become mainstream, we need to learn from local success stories and scale up

  • July 9, 2019
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Living Cities Forum 2019 Melbourne highlights

  • May 24, 2019
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Taming wild cities: the tall buildings of Australia show why we need strong design guidelines

  • May 24, 2019
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10th International Urban Design Conference

  • April 27, 2017
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Australian Urban Design Awards 2016

  • July 28, 2016
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The Australian Urban Design Awards were created by Prime Minister Paul Keating’s Urban Design Taskforce in 1996 and were inaugurated with the Australia Award for Urban Design. The program was…
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House of Lords Publishes ‘Building Better Places’ Report

  • July 28, 2016
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Landscape Interface Studio Manager, School of Architecture & Landscape, Kingston University The House of Lords Select Committee on the National Policy of the Built Environment has published its report. Appointed by…
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Innovative Solutions for Cities Sustainable Development

  • July 28, 2016
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Eng. Nadine Chahine Bitar Founder – Place Making In resolution 66/207 and in line with the bi-decennial cycle (1976, 1996 and 2016), the United Nations General Assembly decided on the…
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Green infrastructure can cool our cities. So what are planners waiting for?

  • July 28, 2016
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By Tony Matthews and Jason Byrne A living wall in action: Patrick Blanc’s “Trussardi Cafe: Unexpected Garden” on display in Milan in 2008. Image: Getty. Our cities are getting hotter, more…
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Quiz: What Would Jane Jacobs Think of Your Neighborhood?

  • July 28, 2016
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“What would Jane Jacobs think?” has been a question in urban planning and urbanist circles for years. That’s no surprise—after reading her work, it’s impossible to walk around a city…
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How Jane Jacobs changed the way we look at cities

  • July 28, 2016
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Saskia Sassen When I first encountered this doyenne of urban activism, she offered one of the sharpest critiques I’d ever heard. Jane Jacobs was relentless, and stood up to anyone…
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Was Jane Jacobs right?

  • July 28, 2016
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Lloyd Alter (@lloydalter)  CC BY 2.0 Jane Jacobs/ Wikipedia May 4 would have been Jane Jacobs’ 100th birthday. We look at her impact. In Wrestling with Moses: How Jane Jacobs took on…
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Plastic Ban, a new global trend? No024

  • July 28, 2016
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Plastic ban’s seem to be a way to handle the huge amounts of plastic currently available everywhere in societies around the world. It has been known for a while that…
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The “Future of Suburbia,” according to MIT

  • July 28, 2016
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The Center for Advanced Urbanism’s new research initiative is long overdue but doesn’t yet strike the right note. By AMANDA KOLSON HURLEY Other ArchitectureOffset House by Otherothers At trendy urban coffee…
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Call for Papers Issued for Trees, People and the Built Environment 3

  • July 28, 2016
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A call for papers has been issued for a major triennial international urban trees research conference. Trees People and the Built Environment 3 (TPBE 3) will take place on 5-6 April 2017,…
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