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Towards the all-age-friendly city
Posted on: 1 October 2014
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This report finds that inter-generational trust, built through frequent encounters and better-designed housing and transport is key to an all-age-friendly city. The report depicts possible ideas for improving cities, from digital aids for encouraging accidental encounters between generations, to sentiment mapping and modular housing for intergenerational relationships. It explores how shared service hubs could bring generations together, as well as skill-based currencies and digital platforms that could enable a shift from generations co-habiting in public space to true sharing. The report looks at the intersection between the World Health Organisation’s work on age-friendly cities and UNICEF’s work on child-friendly cities. It aims to spot potential conflicts in the design and use of cities by older and younger citizens, as well as understand where these groups of citizens have the same needs and so can use cities in new collaborative ways.
A visual history of the future
Posted on: 25 September 2014
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Depictions of future cities can play an important role in shaping our thinking on cities and our future urban strategies. This report explores the ways future cities have been depicted over the last 100 years and considers what these depictions sought to communicate and why. Its aim is to identify and understand the types of cities visions which have had the most influence.
Living places: An urban stewardship and design guide for Northern Ireland
Posted on: 23 September 2014
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This Urban Stewardship and Design Guide aims to clearly establish the key principles behind good place making. It seeks to inform and inspire all those involved in the process of managing (stewardship) and making (design) urban places, with a view to raising standards across Northern Ireland.
The era of radical concrete
Posted on: 19 September 2014
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This article describes how a massive collection of images from British urban developments of the 1960s and 1970s now provides a treasure trove for those who want to reassess a vilified era of town planning. The article prompted a significant response from readers, who wrote in with their own memories and experiences of living in these areas. These can be found here.
London’s Garden bridge: barking up the wrong tree?
Posted on: 19 September 2014
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The author of this article considers whether the Thomas Heatherwick’s proposed garden bridge over the Thames is a benefit for Londoners or Boris Johnson’s vanity project?
Trees in hard landscapes: A guide for delivery
Posted on: 17 September 2014
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This document explores the practical challenges and solutions to integrating trees in 21st century streets, civic spaces and surface car parks, detailing process, design and technical options. It will be of particular interest to highway engineers, public realm professionals and tree specialists. This is the companion document to Trees in the townscape: A guide for decision makers.
Uxcester Garden City
Posted on: 5 September 2014
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This submission on how best to deliver a new garden city won the Wolfson Economics Prize 2014. This document describes a plan to create a garden city of almost 400,000 people by doubling the size of an existing city. It is based on a real city, but not one that is identified. It is called Uxcester and is created from an amalgam of at least six other cities, all places with populations nearing 200,000, with long histories, established institutions and settled communities.
Gehl Architects in China: Shaghai
Posted on: 5 September 2014
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Gehl Architects are currently working with Energy Foundation and ‘China Sustainable Cities’ Program on a livability and green mobility plan for the Huangpu district, in the heart of Shanghai. The background and key findings from a recent analysis is now available.
Do elevated cycletracks solve problems or just create more?
Posted on: 5 September 2014
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Looks at two proposals on elevated cycle tracks. One, proposed for London, and another already completed in Copenhagen.
The value of public space
Posted on: 2 September 2014
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This report shows how cities in the UK and around the world have received far-reaching economic, health and social benefits from making the best of their public spaces.
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