August 2008 - Urban Design Forum

UDF Quarterly

Launch of d_city

An emerging global network of multi-disciplinary researchers (mainly academic) using dynamic data technologies to accelerate ecologically intelligent solutions for planning, designing and managing cities is about to be launched. We…

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Challenges for the Major Cities Unit

Urban design is a key element in that task and Urban Designers, combined with all the other planning and design professions, should be employed by the Unit to illustrate to…

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The economic value of urban shade – the Dubai Creek Case Study

savings in cooling costs and, in turn, energy consumption and environmental emissions; reduced pavement fatigue cracking and other distress, and therefore public asset maintenance costs; to the extent that shade…

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StreetFilms initiative

Melbourne and Wodonga are just two of the places to be part of the StreetFilms series. The mission of StreetFilms is to document liveable streets best practice throughout the world…

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Footscray’s new Mall

The space needs to facilitate a strong sense of community and cater for a diverse range of cultural activities. The existing condition of the Mall did not reflect its importance…

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Draft Australian Urban Design Protocol

As described in the draft Protocol, “Urban design concerns the physical arrangement, appearance and functioning of towns and cities, and their relationship to the natural environment. Good urban design supports…

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Melbourne City continues to lead

The most recent initiative is the publication of Future Melbourne, a plan to grow Melbourne as a global city as one of the top ten most liveable and sustainable cities…

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Missing ingredient in Garnaut prescription

As over 80% of our population lives in urbanised centres, we better start factoring into the Garnaut prescription the role and arrangement of our cities and towns – so far…

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CPTED is hardly a new idea…

Publishing about CPTED is hardly a new venture in Australasia, but there is a new effort in Queensland to explain it and to make that explanation accessible and interesting to…

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State Governments commit to better design

Queensland David Follent, Queensland Government Architect Queensland Premier Anna Bligh appointed leading architect Philip Follent to the role of Queensland Government Architect. Philip is currently Gold Coast City architect and…