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The urban masterplanning handbook: two centuries of city planning
Posted on: 5 June 2013
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Videos of a presentation held at the Urban Design Group on 30 April 2013 which highlights the content of the Urban masterplanning, Urban housing and Urban towers handbooks, featuring projects from New York, Freiburg, Potsdam, Paris, Amsterdam, Lille, Buenos Aires and Dubai. Lambert Smith Hampton has produced a guide explaining these changes.
Behavioural Design Lab
Posted on: 30 May 2013
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This new website is a collaboration between Warwick Business School and the Design Council uniting behavioural science with design-thinking. It aims to help organisations from all sectors understand the role of behaviour in the challenges they face and adopt new approaches through design-led innovation. Current projects are related to health and wellbeing, sustainability and consumer empowerment.
The relevance of street patterns and public space in urban areas
Posted on: 30 May 2013
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Well planned street systems in cities hold the key to better mobility, provision of urban basic services as well as economic productivity, according to UN-Habitat Executive Director Dr. Joan Clos. In this working paper he argues that urban planners must address well thought out streets when coming with urban plans.
50th International Federation of Landscape Architects Congress. Auckland, New Zealand, 10-12 April 2013
Posted on: 29 May 2013
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The International Federation of Landscape Architects (IFLA) is an organisation which represents the landscape architectural profession globally. It aims to provide leadership and networks to support the development of the profession and its effective participation in the realization of attractive, equitable and sustainable environments. Presentations are available online.
Bollards and pedestrian movement
Posted on: 24 May 2013
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This Traffic Advisory Leaflet provides advice on the planning and design of bollard schemes installed for the purpose of hostile vehicle mitigation.
Stadslab: European Urban Design Laboratory
Posted on: 13 May 2013
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Stadslab was established in the summer of 2006 to create a European urban design laboratory where professionals and academia would meet to exchange knowledge and know-how, while addressing real time cases proposed by our hosting cities. After six years our track record consists of strategic design studies for cities and regions in Poland, Hungary, Ukraine, Georgia, Serbia, Japan and the Netherlands. More than eighty participants took part in these studies, representing over 15 nationalities and varying degrees of professional experience in different fields. Programmess for cities both within and outside of Europe are currently being developed. One of Stadslab aims is to train local professionals in design methodology and international exchange. A new Stadslab publication is now available online. The 52 pages booklet is a comprehensive presentation of the results of the October 2012 Master Class on Mobility and Urban Transportation in Fukuoka, the largest city on the southern Japanese island of Kyushu. The proposal for a new hierarchy of bus-lines to fight congestion and redundancy is at the core of the Master Class results.
Intelligent cities: Urban design in the digital age
Posted on: 10 May 2013
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This presentation considers the issue of smart/intelligent cities, how to develop new cities and retrofit existing global cities.
Water and environment 2013. London, 10-11 April 2013
Posted on: 24 April 2013
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The annual conference of the Chartered Institution of Water and Environmental Management aims to challenge and inspire the water and environment community by sharing knowledge and best practice which is at the heart of meeting the key global challenges. Leaders in their field will cover an enormous range of topics from flood risk management, catchment management and water quality, water resources, climate change and sustainability, urban design and more, making the event this year’s most comprehensive briefing on the water, sustainability and the environment agenda. Delegate notes and presentations are available online.
Mixed streets
Posted on: 18 April 2013
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The Winter 2013 issue of Urban Design is now available online. The theme of this issue is that of mixed streets. Articles explore: Multiple Centrality Assessment as a tool to map the centrality of urban street spaces (existing and new) in order to reveal those most likely to support complex mixed use; an analysis of London’s suburbs which demonstrates both the great interconnectedness of traditional suburban high streets, and the diverse mix of activities (not just retail) that this has given rise to, and which these streets still support; the US Complete Streets initiative is discussed showing that the problem of change is not merely a technical one, but instead represents a much more complex and profound political and cultural challenge; four international case studies where the huge strategic potential of these mixed corridor spaces is being debated and/or actively harnessed as part of the strategic design of cities.
Charles Landry
Posted on: 18 April 2013
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Charles Landry is an international authority on the use of imagination and creativity in urban change. He helps cities identify and make the most of their resources and to reach their potential by triggering their inventiveness and thinking. His aim is to help cities become more resilient, self-sustaining and to punch above their weight. His work is highlighted in his updated website. He is working on four themes:How you make great cities; The idea of ‘civic urbanity’, which seeks to rethink urbanity in 21st century terms; The creative bureaucracy concept, which looks at how public administrations can reassess how they operate afresh; and The ‘creative cities index’, which is a way to measure the pulse of a city and its imaginative capacity.
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