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Anticity and the future of “public spehere”
Posted on: 12 February 2014
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This talk, the second in the UCL Development Planning Unit’s Dialogues in Development Anniversary series, explores the inter-linkages between research, design, media and politics through a transversal glance, particularly looking at the role architecture plays in redefining the contours of the public sphere in contemporary cities.
Silk Cities
Posted on: 11 February 2014
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This network is the outcome of a UCL/Bartlett-hosted international conference held in early November 2012, focusing on urban change in Iran. Through knowledge sharing amongst peers, academics and practitioners alike, within the disciplines of planning and design, we aim to contribute to an improved built environment, which is: safer and more resilient to disasters; providing better quality of life for people; and positioned in its historical continuity. Outcomes from the conference are available online together with details of the Silk Cities online platform.
Placemaking and the future of cities
Posted on: 3 February 2014
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This handbook, published in 2012, aims to serve as a guide for use by municipal leaders in future public space projects laying out 10 best practices for public space projects. These 10 facets of the Placemaking approach illustrate the process that Project for Public Spaces (PPS) and UN-Habitat have undertaken together, and demonstrate the effectiveness of such global partnerships in sustainable urban development through networks such as SUD-Net. UN-Habitat has been developing a vision for public space. PPS has taken this vision as a starting point and has expanded it to incorporate case study narratives describing the impact of the Placemaking process in nearly a dozen cities throughout the Global South.
City health check: How design can save lives and money
Posted on: 30 January 2014
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The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) has published new research exploring the link between the quality of public spaces and our health and wellbeing. It explores the important role that design can play in combating the most pressing public health problems of the 21 st Century whilst at the same time delivering savings for the NHS. The report looks at London and England’s eight Core Cities (Birmingham, Bristol, Leeds, Liverpool, Manchester, Newcastle, Nottingham and Sheffield), examining three major health problems and comparing the amount of green and public space available.
Design with the blind in mind
Posted on: 28 January 2014
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What would a city designed for the blind be like? Chris Downey is an architect who went suddenly blind in 2008. In this video, he contrasts life in his San Francisco before and after, and shows how the thoughtful designs that enhance his life now might actually make everyone’s life better, sighted or not.
The Roadmap on the future needs of tall buildings
Posted on: 22 January 2014
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The Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH) has released this report in partnership with the International Council for Research and Innovation in Building and Construction (CIB) and the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). The Roadmap identifies priority research topics and gaps in the field of tall buildings, acting as a guide to assist all those concerned with the typology in the necessary planning of future research and funding.
Should programs in architecture, urban design, and landscape architecture require a certain minimum level of learning about the fundamentals of ecology? Why?
Posted on: 20 January 2014
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Every month The Nature of Cities, a virtual magazine on cities as ecosystems, hosts a Global Roundtable on a specific question. Writers from diverse perspectives offer a brief response. Then the Roundtable is open to all comments and ideas.
Urban sustainability: Designing resource-efficient, appealing cities
Posted on: 16 January 2014
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A modeling tool from MIT’s Sustainable Design Lab is now helping to support the sustainable growth of the world’s rapidly expanding urban areas. Rather than planning one green building at a time, urban designers and architects can draw a new neighborhood or city and then use the tool to calculate energy use and emissions for the entire collection of buildings in their design. They can also determine how comfortable the residents will be, both indoors and outdoors, and how likely they will be to walk rather than drive. Christoph Reinhart, head of the Sustainable Design Lab at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, provides further information.
CIVITAS Webinar: Revolutionary roads. 17 December 2013
Posted on: 3 January 2014
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This webinar was held to discuss innovative design solutions and road use for safer, smarter and more efficient streets. Presentations from the event are available online.
Planning Workshop. Birmingham, 27 November 2013
Posted on: 13 December 2013
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Presentations from this workshop are entitled “Understanding and changing places”; “Delivering better places” and “Planning for better places”.
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