Chicago’s Elevated Park Ready To Bloom
By Emma Chow
Like the wildly successful High Line park in New York City, the Bloomingdale Trail will be Chicago’s celebrated elevated park. Just days ago, planners submitted a framework plan to guide the community-oriented design process.
Read more →Why Not Store Bikes On Rooftops?
By Joop de Boer
Forget about rooftop gardens, rooftop campsites and rooftop farms, we need our roofs to solve a much bigger problem — to store bikes. The engineers at IBA, the Amsterdam Department of Engineering, came up with the idea to install Velominck bike storage facilities on top of the city’s roofs.
Read more →Illumination As A Strategic Intervention In New Delhi
By Joop de Boer
What can light do for the urban future of New Delhi? In a series of experiments, Philips tries to explore in which different ways lighting can make a difference in tomorrow’s world cities. New Delhi is a city with a dramatic history. “It has been destroyed and rebuilt seven times under a myriad of different [...]
Read more →Holes In The City
San Francisco-based artist Kathryn Clark used to work as an urban planner between 1999 and 2004. In 2007, when the foreclosures began to occur in the United States, she began wondering to which extent she added to this problem by promoting home ownership. Using quilts, she created an extraordinary series of visualizations, based on maps [...]
Read more →MVRDV + DIY = The New New Urbanism
By Adam Nowek
DIY: still all the rage. Last year, we wrote about DIY land remediation (seriously!), which, at the time, seemed to be an urban intervention that seemed about as antithetical to spontaneous DIY ethics as you could possibly get. Now, thanks to internationally-renowned Dutch architecture firm MVRDV, we can add urban planning to that list of [...]
Read more →A Digital Stroll Along The Waterfront
By Adam Nowek
Today in the affordable vacation category, we have Maraya. The interface allows the user walk down digital ‘paths’ comprised of photographs of waterfront developments. Don’t like the path you see? You can create your own and share it with others. Neat! The creators are based out of Vancouver, so a large quantity of the things [...]
Read more →#IABR — Aqueous Thinking: Art And Collectivity On The Streets Of Douala
By Adam Nowek
Making cities for the future is as much about planning and policymaking as it is about designing and creating: it is a perpetual practice undertaken in boardrooms and bars, conference centres and cafés, by painters and politicians, merchants and managers. Urbane practice in urban areas, though, requires participation and reflection in order to be truly [...]
Read more →Shade Stands: Bottom-Up Urbanism In Kampala
By Joop de Boer
What does innovation look like in cities that are not as developed as most Western cities? Broadening our scope, we’re taking a look at great interventions in cities that suffer from problems that are slightly different than those in Amsterdam, London and NYC, such as the Shade Stands project, an impressive bottom-up initiative in Kampala, Uganda.
Read more →Container Urbanism
The architects of Daiken-Met couldn’t find themselves a good office space in the city of Gifu, Japan. They decided to design and build the ideal studio themselves, which resulted in Sugoroku Office, a temporary moveable office that’s built from seven shipping containers. I’d say this three-level building is more than a piece of container architecture — it represents container [...]
Read more →(Un)dynamic Urbanism: Frequent Transit Network Maps
By Adam Nowek
TransLink, the public transportation authority for Greater Vancouver, recently released their Frequent Network Map. Jarrett Walker at Human Transit sees this as a big step for mobility in Canada’s West Coast city: “Meanwhile, this is a hugely important moment for Vancouver, especially because of the way the Frequent Network can organise future land use, and [...]
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