UNSW to offer Australia’s first Master’s degree in urban renewal and housing
UNSW is launching Australia’s first Master’s degree program in urban renewal and housing to support the housing challenges of the future. Aimed at future…
Shenzen and Hong Kong Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism/Architecture launches today
BI-CITY BIENNALE OF URBANISM\ARCHITECTURE launches today. “Cheng Shi Yuan Dian” | “Re-living the city” Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism\Architecture (UABB) is currently the only biennial…
Go West Project
The Go West Project is multidisciplinary research studio that studies emerging megacities. The project was founded in 2009 by researcher/writer Michiel Hulshof and architect…
Stony Island Arts Bank on Chicago’s South Side
One might think that an abandoned 1920s bank on Chicago’s South Side, crumbling from top to bottom—the roof long collapsed, exposing the interior to…
Studio Huss
Studio Huss is a design research practice for the built environment, working at the intersection of human psychology, physiology, architecture and urban design. We…
Planning and Design for Future Informal Settlements
In the Commons blog, David talks more about his book, Planning and Design for Future Informal Settlements,Shaping the Self-Constructed City, and the process he’s developed called Informal Armatures (IA), a simple working and design approach to foster the emergence of new informal settlements and accompany their sustainable evolution.
Planning and Design for Future Informal Settlements
We are in urgent need of new tools to deal with the processes of informal urbanization. It is mandatory to understanding informality not only as a marginal phenomenon but as mainstream city making and an integral part of hybrid cities in which the formal and the informal can co-exist and interact in a beneficial manner. My recent publication Planning and Design for Future Informal Settlements: Shaping the Self-Constructed City is an attempt to move in this direction.
Van Alen Institute
Van Alen Institute believes design can transform cities, landscapes, and regions to improve people’s lives. We collaborate with communities, scholars, policymakers, and professionals on local…
Centro Estrategico en urbanismo Sustentable (CEUS)
DR. RUBÉN GARNICA MONROY Escuela de Diseño y Arquitectura TECNOLÓGICO DE MONTERREY CAMPUS QUERÉTARO
The CUNY Institute for Urban Systems
CIUS aims to bring together leading scholars and practitioners to help catalyze innovation at public agencies in the planning and management of urban infrastructure…