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How New Design Patterns Can Enable Cities and Their Residents to Change with Climate Change
Conventionally, designing a city is done in 3 ways. However, with the changing climate crisis many countries are facing, how should designers adjust their techniques to fit this new era? Find out how in this article.
Suburbs Are Becoming Increasingly Diverse – Urban Development and the Pandemic Will Transform Them Further
Historically, suburbs have been considered as places which are less diverse than cities, particularly with regard to their racial and social class composition. However, this is change, find out how!
Children’s Views Should be Taken into Account when Designing Urban Spaces
Children see the world in a different way to adults, but urban planning policies rarely take this into account. By focusing on adult needs and views, children are often planned out of our public spaces – and their needs are relegated to specific areas such as playgrounds.
A Fad, Not a Solution: ‘City Deals’ Are Pushing Universities into High-Rise Buildings
The best-value university projects ought to be the ones that get funded rather than those that have the side benefit of allowing politicians to (repeatedly) claim they are “revitalising” cities.
Print Your City? 3D Printing is Revolutionizing Urban Futures
The Fabrication City concept puts manufacturing back in the hands of communities — using 3D printers.
Building A Better World: Can Architecture Shape Behaviour?
It was a new phrase but the belief system behind it – that buildings shape behaviour – had allowed the heroes of architecture to make all kinds of outlandish claims.
No Need To Give Up on Crowded Cities - We Can Make Density So Much Better
The more immediate need is to focus on improving conditions in our major cities. Our smaller towns matter, but we can’t neglect the urgent need to get better at doing the bigger ones right.
Temporary Urban Solutions Help Us Deal With Crisis - And Can Lead To Radical Shifts in City Space
Our research into the temporary use of land and buildings shows the ways in which short-term development is deployed during times of crisis.
If More of Us Work From Home After Coronavirus, We'll Need to Rethink City Planning
If, as some expect, people are likely to work from home more often after the pandemic, what will this mean for infrastructure planning? Will cities still need all the multibillion-dollar road, public transport, telecommunications and energy projects, including some already in the pipeline?
How to Build More Resilient Cities Post-Coronavirus
As Canadian cities recover and rebuild their economies post-pandemic, there will be increasing need to deliver social and community planning measures to address widening income inequalities.
Cities Are at the Centre of the Coronavirus Pandemic - Understanding This Can Help Build A Sustainable Equal Future
We can seize this opportunity to improve how we build, organise and use cities. To do this, though, we need to look more closely at the urban spread of coronavirus to understand its impact on existing inequalities.
Design for Flooding: How Cities Can Make Room for Water
We can learn to look at flooding as a regenerative element to improve life in urban areas.
Climate Change: We Can Reclaim Cities From the Car Without Inconveniencing People
These streets are made for walking, and let’s keep it that way.
Designing Structures That Become Local Landmarks
With proper design, a structure can become an icon and a representation of the people it serves. Local landmarks offer advantages in community, tourism, quality of life and navigation. Find out how!
Project Highlight: Marina Bay Sands Hotel
For the control of the curtain tracks’ automation at the Marina Bay Sands Hotel, it was decided to rely on Nice and to use the award-winning NiceWay modular transmitters.
Urban Rooms: Where People Get to Design their City's Future
That’s where “urban rooms” come in – they’re an important building block in making a city vision “real” for the people who live there.
Don’t forget the footpath – it’s vital public space
Footpaths in urban areas support complex social systems and a wide variety of uses. They are a vital public space and deserve more attention in the planning and design of our cities.
Smart cities aim to make urban life more efficient – but for citizens’ sake they need to slow down
All over the world, governments, institutions and businesses are combining technologies for gathering data, enhancing communications and sharing information, with urban infrastructure, to create smart cities.
Cities That Never Sleep: How the Modern World Blurs the Boundaries Between Night and Day
Since the industrial revolution we’ve found ways to adapt our homes and cities to operate during the night. But as our conquest of the dark continues, the border between night and day is becoming increasingly blurry.