Urban Design

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Albuquerque
IDO offers positive transparency
abqjournal.com - Isaac Benton And Trudy Jones / Albuquerque City Councilors
ABQ ordinance a great help in 'turning City Hall inside out'
Future Cities
Our weekly wrap-up of new design competitions worth checking out
archinect.com - Bustler Editors
We get it. It can get a little overwhelming keeping up with the dozens of new architecture competitions launching worldwide on any given week — let …
U.S. Dept. of Education
Panyaza Lesufi proclaims end to apartheid's education urban planning
timeslive.co.za - Image: Vathiswa Ruselo/Sowetan
The Gauteng education department said on Thursday it had buried apartheid spatial planning in the province.
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SkyTrain
Decision on new Surrey SkyTrain could come Thursday
cbc.ca
TransLink is recommending Metro Vancouver mayors approve a motion Thursday that would see the immediate start of a planning and design process for a …
Sam Gutzmanadded this to Design, Gadgets, Gear, Science, & Tech
Green Design
Zaha Hadid unveils futuristic designs for “New Moscow”
inhabitat - by Lucy Wang
Zaha Hadid Architects and Russian firm TPO Pride Architects have been selected as one of the consortiums to design the new Rublyovo-Arkhangelskoye …
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Cities
Egypt planning 20 new 'smart' cities to improve quality of life
cgtn.com - CGTN Africa
Urban planning experts believe that the construction of 20 new cities of the fourth generation will help improve life quality, increase residential …
Washington State
What an I-5 lid might look like through downtown Seattle
mynorthwest.com - MyNorthwest Staff
The Lid I-5 campaign has been steadily gaining momentum of late, and recently scored the endorsement of Seattle City Councilmember Mike O’Brien, who …
Future Cities
What buildings can teach us about accessibility and future cities
archinect.com - Katherine Guimapang
Accessibility looks like different things to different people. When architects design buildings there are parameters that must be met in order to …
Urban Planning
Urban planning policy contributes to political polarization
phys.org - University of Waterloo
Urban planning decisions from decades past are likely a contributing factor to the rise of right-wing populism, a study from the University of …
The Wall Street Journal.
Jane Jacobs
Jane Jacobs’s Shadow of a Doubt for Philip Johnson
The Wall Street Journal. - The Wall Street Journal
Didn’t Mr. Johnson know the morning sun doesn’t rise in the north? Alex Beam’s review of Mark Lamster’s “The Man in the Glass House” (Books, Nov. 3) unmasks some of the gory details of the influential
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Graphic Design
Why Graphic Design Should Engage More Than Just the Sense of Sight
skuirel.com - By Skuirel
Five cross-sensory pieces caught our attention in a new show at the Cooper Hewitt. “Body-numbing visuals saturate design culture,” reads a line from …
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Cities
Minneapolis Groups Propose Tiny-House Community
nextcity.org - Rachel Kaufman
Renderings illustrate a prototype for the modular, streamlined, hyper-affordable Envision tiny-house community. (Credit: Envision …
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Green Design
Calgary Central Library is wrapped in a striking, snowflake-like facade
inhabitat - by Lucy Wang
Calgary’s new Central Library has just opened its doors to the public — and it’s a thing of elegant, energy-efficient beauty. International …
Jenifer Daniels, APRadded this to Urbanism
City Politics
Imagining people-centered digital solutions for 21st-century service delivery
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Digital technologies and the use of data to inform decision making offer tremendous potential to leapfrog to a higher, 21st-century standard of …
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Urban Planning
New book explores the history of urban planning and racism in the HRM
halifaxtoday.ca
In Halifax, African Nova Scotians continue to feel disparity after the destruction of their community in the 1960s, a result of poor urban planning …
Franklin Expedition
Call for National Erebus Memorial designs
scoop.co.nz - www.scoop.co.nz
Manatū Taonga, the Ministry for Culture and Heritage welcomes expressions of interest from architects, artists, landscape architects and designers, …
Armed Conflict
Comparative urban design: Border-Making Practices in Medellin and Beirut Book Launch
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DPU is pleased to announce the publication of the second volume of the "Cities, Design and Transformation” book series edited by Catalina Ortiz. The …
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Ottawa
3rd developer seeking to build tower near Westboro transit station
cbc.ca - Kate Porter
The City of Ottawa has received a third proposal for a highrise tower on Scott Street near the Westboro transit station — an area which typically …
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Hong Kong
Exploring HK through architecture
news.gov.hk
Hong Kong’s iconic urban landscape is well-known for its many skyscrapers, but there is another side to the city - its old and historic buildings. …
Rosalind Kelcourseadded this to Art
Mark Twain
57 NYC Outdoor (and Indoor) Art Installations Not to Miss in November 2018
untappedcities.com - Michelle Young
4. The Poetry Jukebox The Poetry Jukebox, a version which was previously at Extra Place in 2017, is now at Ruth Wittenburg Triangle in Greenwich …
Jesus J. Laraadded this to Remaking Metropolis
Urban Development
How the Cheonggyecheon River Urban Design Restored the Green Heart of Seoul
inhabitat - Inhabitat
1/17 Cheonggyecheon River At the heart of Seoul lies one of the world's greatest urban design projects: the Cheonggyecheon River linear park. A green …
Greenville
Next week, you'll get your chance to shape the future of Greenville's downtown
greenvillejournal.com
For those with opinions on the direction that downtown Greenville should take in the future, next week will be the time to share them. Representatives …
Urbanism
Jennifer Fix on Participatory Urban Design and the Femopolis by small talks & city blocks - Listen to music
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USDOT
Chicago Avenue bridge will close Thursday for demolition, reconstruction
Curbed - Jay Koziarz
Downtown residents and commuters can expect several months of traffic detours and delays Starting Thursday, November 1, the Chicago Avenue bridge will close to all traffic as crews demolish the 104-year-old
Jenifer Daniels, APRadded this to Urbanism
Innovation
Chief innovators come of age
medium.com - Bloomberg Cities
Ten years ago, the role of “chief innovation officer” didn’t exist in local government. Fast forward to today, and it’s common to find people in city …
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Artificial Intelligence
How artificial intelligence could soon speed up development approvals
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Slow development approvals and inconsistent planning decisions could soon be a thing of the past, with disruptive technologies set to streamline …
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News (U.S.)
Nuns plan to demolish Cape May Point retreat center : Urban Planning : WHYY
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An iconic building that has stood near the beach for more than a century in Cape May Point will be demolished in a few years under a plan announced …
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Profit
Surface parking loses its luster as downtown Buffalo's revival rolls on
buffalonews.com - By Caitlin Dewey | Published Thu, Oct 25, 2018
Twenty-nine football fields worth of downtown Buffalo’s best real estate has long been abandoned to parked cars, with more value as parking lots than …
Housing
Market Urbanism MUsings October 25, 2018 - Market Urbanism
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Scott Alexander, a West Coast blogger, has written a post that has received a lot of buzz, called “Steelmanning the NIMBYs”; apparently, …
Jenifer Daniels, APRadded this to Urbanism
American Cities
Why Public Transportation Works Better Outside the U.S.
CityLab - Jonathan English
The widespread failure of American mass transit is usually blamed on cheap gas and suburban sprawl. But the full story of why other countries succeed is more complicated. When it comes to the quality public