Australian Urban Design Awards 2016
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
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
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?
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?
“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
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?
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
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
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
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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