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NEOM Shares Its Vision For The Future Of Cities In Venice Exhibition
The historic Abbazia di San Gregorio in Venice will be home to a landmark exhibition entitled, ‘Zero Gravity…
What is The Line, the 170km-long mirrored metropolis Saudi Arabia is building in the desert?
As climate change rapidly advances, many Middle Eastern states are aiming to make the transition from carbon-based economies…
5 Trends In Urban Infrastructure Planning Design
To survive, you need roads and electricity. Here we are not talking about survival, but about the policy…
Cities that connect people and nature are a post-pandemic priority, conference hears
Care homes that let people age with integrity, green kindergartens and community centres that bring together people of…
3 Proven Urban Designing Principles That Enhance Road Safety
Today, 55% of the population worldwide lives in cities. According to The World Bank, the number will double by…
How 3D City Models Transform The Way We Design And Build Cities
A 3D city model is a digital model of urban spaces. It represents the visual and spatial features…
This ‘Self-Sufficient’ Chinese City Is Being Built With Future Pandemics In Mind
A new city near Beijing featuring wooden apartment blocks, rooftop farms and renewable energy is being designed with…
Connected City Streets Mean Healthier Residents And Communities
In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, cities around the world are rediscovering the value of walkable and…
Architects Are Redesigning Cities To Help With Social Distancing
In the once-bustling Eixample district, birdsong and the occasional whir of a food delivery cyclist have replaced the…
What We Can Learn From The Stoics In Rethinking Urban Design
Apart from self-improvement, Stoic wisdom also provides insights on how we can improve urban design. Stoicism, the ancient…
If More Of Us Work From Home After Coronavirus We’ll Need To Rethink City Planning
We have seen an unprecedented rise in the number of people working from home as directed by governments…
If A City Were Designed By Women, How Would It Look?
At a glimpse, our cities may seem like they cater to everyone. Taking a closer look, however, would…
Outbreaks Like Coronavirus Start In And Spread From The Edges Of Cities
Emerging infectious disease has much to do with how and where we live. The ongoing coronavirus is an…
‘Blue’ Space: Access To Water Features Can Boost City Dwellers’ Mental Health
Officials are increasingly recognizing that integrating nature into cities is an effective public health strategy to improve mental…
How Can We Design Sustainable Urban Lighting For Our Cities
We might be taking it for granted for now, but the introduction of lighting in our streets is…
Cities Alive: Designing For Urban Childhoods
Much of the things we do right now will heavily impact future generations. This goes beyond the political…
10 Priorities For Health And Wellbeing In Cities
The world is developing fast. As time goes on, we live longer, more urban, and more connected. As…
How City Squares Can Be Public Places Of Protest Or Centres Of State Control
Today’s urban public spaces tend to represent governments and cities rather than people and citizens. In the past…
Stressed & Depressed: How Can We Design Cities To Promote Mental Health
It is a known fact that almost half of the world’s population live in cities and it is…
How We Can Design Timeless Cities For Our Collective Future
There’s a creeping sameness in many of our newest urban buildings and streetscapes, says architect Vishaan Chakrabarti. And…
Designing Cities To Counter Loneliness? Let’s Explore The Possibilities
Do you feel lonely? If you do, you are not alone. While you may think it’s a personal…
What Would Cities Look Like If They Were Designed By Mothers?
Architecture’s lack of diversity shows in environments created by people who never need step-free access or to take…
Encouraging City Dwellers To Walk More
Many cities today are saddled with high car dependency, wider roads, fewer pedestrian-friendly streets, increased pollution and inevitably,…
The Way Forward For Intersection Design?
A major issue for road safety is collisions at intersections between vehicles and vulnerable road users such as cyclists,…
We Need Bigger Cities, But We Also Need Unique Cities
“If you don’t want processed food, why do you want processed cities?” asks architect Vishaan Chakrabarti. Think of…
How To Make Smart Cities Human Again
Huge quantities of networked sensors have appeared in cities across the world in recent years. These include cameras and sensors that count…
16 Ways to Design a Better Intersection—And Better Cities
IF YOU THINK the only purpose of intersections is to move cars past each other, you solve problems like…
What 5,000 Americans Think About Urban Design
Park benches, well-maintained lots, planters full of bright flowers, lamp posts — these are public space design features…
Living Off The Edge In A City Mall Where Design Fuels Conflict
There are few more telling signs of conflict in urban spaces than calls to send in the police.…
How Does A City Shape Women’s Feelings Of Safety?
When authorities decide that an area of the city is “not safe”, the usual response is more lighting,…
A Smart City Is, Because Its People Are.
By 2030, 60 percent of the world’s population is expected to live in mega-cities. How all those people…
How To Fathom And Unravel The Deception Of Density
If we think carefully about the flaws in measuring how dense a place is, we can better articulate…
Happy, Healthy, And Simple Neighbourhoods Can Be Yours
Modern life is proving more complex, tiresome and heavy-going than we imagined. We live under constant pressure: our…
Watch Suburbia Morph Into Green Squares In Cities Near You
The suburbs were the urban living format that defined Australian cities in the 20th century. Inevitably they’ve had…
Urban Density: An Oversimplified Concept That Endanger Our Future
In debates about urban density, we often find comments about buildings being too tall or not tall enough,…
Getting Lost (Safely) Is Part Of The Fun & Smarts Of ‘Smart’ Cities
The internet has reached our cities. A smart city is optimised for efficiency, productivity and comfort. The smart…
Making Your Cities More Beautiful With Living Heritage
Architects, urban planners and government policymakers often aspire to make Australian cities more like Copenhagen. But, for issues…
How Resilience Grows From The Roots Of Urban Design
In this article, inspired by the movement of open spaces in cities across the world and resilience theory,…
Gil Penalosa : Citizens Can’t Be Spectators In Urban Planning
Gil Penalosa wants you to act now. So it’s a good thing that when he’s expounding on how…
Want A Cycling City? Design For Traffic Safety
The World Bicycle Forum in Medellín, Colombia last 2015 brought together more than 4,000 attendees from across the…
Why Modern Cities Kills Nightingale’s Song
The Commons apartment building in the inner Melbourne suburb of Brunswick has won swags of awards, including the…
Start Asking People What They Want From The Smart Cities Of The Future
“Future cities, where infrastructure adapts to our needs, offer an enticing prospect.” But who is in the driving…
What Children Can Teach Us About Community
A local library asked kids and adults what they want in their community. The answers might surprise you.…
How Should We Design Cities To Make The Most Of Urban Ecosystems?
Back in 1839, public health expert J F Murray published his article The Lungs of London, in Blackwood’s…
How To Build In Neighbourhoods With Lean Methodology
In some ways, is a rejection of wonk — a way to show and not tell. That characterization comes…
19th-Century Arches Could Be Key To Pedestrian Safety
Matthew Falber led walking tours of Central Park for years before the idea struck. After a spate of…
How American Cities Can Learn From Italian Piazzas
When the paradigm of modernist architecture crumbled, urbanists began a quest for credible alternatives that often took them to…
A New Urban Marketplace To Address The Needs Of Our Time
They say that necessity is the mother of invention. With all the need that exists in the world…
How Australia Is Using Brilliant Research For Transport Problems
This article is part of the series on the Science and Research Priorities recently announced by the Federal…
What Urban Design Can Actually Do To Address Police Violence
Leaders in the field discuss what design can—and can’t—accomplish in the service of communities like Baltimore and Ferguson.…