Teaching Children about Urban Design and Architecture
As Whitney Houston famously sang, "Children are our future/ Teach them well and let them lead the way." Kids learn about science, math, health and even home ec in school. However, little is taught about building »
Classifying the Built Environment: Zones, Urbanicity, Transects, and Trends
Each day countless commuters trek through the commuter zone to the CBD, from T3 to T6, from “MSA but not in a central city” to “central city of an MSA,” from »
Swedish Lessons in Sustainability: Hammarby Sjöstad
Earning the ‘European Green Capital’ title in 2010, Stockholm has become an exemplar city for sustainable urban development. However, it is not only the capital that adds to the greening of Sweden. From Malmö »
Unschooled Urban Planners
Abbey Oklak recently wrote about passing the design torch to the next generation. It is entertaining (and sometimes eye-opening) to solicit opinions about transport infrastructure from young minds. Think of it as a type of community involvement initiative. In fact, as »
#UrbanPixel | Our Urban Waterways
#UrbanPixel - A feature series on Urban Times that documents the issues and scenes of the urban landscape through photography. By visually representing an interesting topic, concern or element of our cities, we hope to »
Classifying the Built Environment: Zones, Urbanicity, Transects, and Trends
The built environment houses various building types, densities, networks, land uses, and functions; author Brian Engelmann explores the facets of the built environment »
Megacities: Eight Ideas from #citytalk for Developing Future Cities
By Joe Peach of This Big City Last week we hosted another #citytalk tweetchat with the New Cities Foundation on the topic of Future Cities. With the world urbanising, »
(x)architects Presents metro-poetics
In an effort to debunk some of the preconceptions / misconceptions / myths of the profession of architecture, while illuminating the depth and breadth of ambitious practices and theses that a professional degree in »
CNU20 Report: Stroad, the Futon of Design Options
“Our current development pattern is causing us to go broke!” So began the CNU presentation by Chuck Marohn, executive director of StrongTowns.org. The simple premise is that we need to stop what we’re »
Size Matters: A Smaller Carbon Footprint
Somehow modern life seems to have ingrained a distorted idea in our heads – the assumption that bigger is better. Most people are happy to live in, own, or drive the biggest and costliest they can afford (or get »
10 Photographs Of Shanghainese Life
Shanghai Through People Shanghai is the largest city proper (by population) on the planet so it is only natural that the vast assortment of inhabitants speak volumes about the character of the city. Whether it is the »
New Cities Summit 2012: Day 3
From May 14th-May 16th, participants from across the world met in Paris for the inaugural New Cities Summit. Organised by the New Cities Foundation, a non-profit Swiss institution dedicated to improving the quality of life in the 21st-century global city, the »
SUL Episode 16: OPeX Studios
For Episode @ of Series 2 StartupLab we interview Mark and Salomé Reeves about OPeX Studios - an architectural design company with a child centric focus on environments and products. »
Microcities: Five of the World’s ‘Smallest’ Cities
By Joe Peach, Founder of This Big City. See Related Post: Megacities: Five of the World’s ‘Biggest’ Cities For the first time ever, the majority of the world’s »
New Cities Summit 2012: Day 2
From May 14th-May 16th, participants from across the world are meeting in Paris for the inaugural New Cities Summit. Organised by the New Cities Foundation, a non-profit Swiss institution dedicated to improving the quality of life in the 21st-century global city. »