According to the forecast by United Nations, 60 percent of the global children will reside in urban environment by 2025. Addressing children’s needs in high density areas is not only important for the development of children’s physical and emotional growth, but also retaining families with children to ensure the inclusiveness of compact cities. Child-friendly city Read the full article…

NET ZERO ENERGY CITIES BY 2030: A WELL-EXECUTED PLANNING OR AN EXPEDITED DECISION? Taking about net zero energy efficient buildings or cities, the first thing that came to mind is solar panels. However, this term has a lot wider spectrum of practices and implementations. For beginning this discussion, NZEC is a city that functions sustainably, Read the full article…

There is an increasing number of people struggling to find affordable and enough housing options (Geraghty, 2022). Affordable housing has become one of the significant issues in the United Kingdom. Several factors contribute to this, including an expanding population, high housing demand, and a lack of available housing (Booth, 2022). As a result, the housing Read the full article…

In class on Monday this week, Professor Timothy mentioned the word “phytoremediation”. I was very interested in this and read and analyzed some articles. The globalisation of the international economy has accelerated population migration and increased urbanisation, leading in the expansion of cities. As traditional industries cause more environmental damage and exhaust nonrenewable resources, modern Read the full article…

Introduction When I was doing my research for this term’s housing alternative, I looked out at the River Tyne. I thought of the Whitely Bay I had visited when I first came to Newcastle, with its beautiful beaches, magnificent views, rich flora and fauna, and especially the lovely seals. However, the ecology of the coastal Read the full article…

Sustainable urban design 8 principles The new semester begins with the investigation of the riverside at project, which aims to provide high-quality affordable housing and develop sustainable new affordable housing near the riverside in Gateshead in the UK context. Sustainable urban design began to come into my field of vision, which aroused my great interest. Read the full article…

We live in a wonderous world where ocean provides invaluable benefits and services: oxygen, food sources, renewable energy, transportation and many others. But, In return, what we are giving back to oceans? Destructing of ocean habitats have been affected by drilling of minerals such as- cobalt, nickel, and manganese through deep-sea mining, dredging to remove Read the full article…

Future cities will be quickly shaped by technology and data. This trend is projected to have quite an impact on how cities are designed, built, and operated in the coming years. The following are a few ways that data and technology are influencing cities in the future: Smart City Technology: The Internet of Things (IoT) Read the full article…

Blog regularity：  The operation is simple, the information release is convenient, and it takes a lot of money, time, and energy to conceive a good blog. Publishing simplification improves everyone’s interest in editing. Strong interactive communication, high professionalism, can communicate with other bloggers in real time, and get comments in time. It is both media Read the full article…

1. Learn BLOG First of all, we learned some knowledge about BLOG in the early stage of this course. Before that, I also made some small websites myself, but through this course, I learned about the operation mode of an academic community. I have been a volunteer in the Wikipedia community for a while, and Read the full article…

Learning that blogging was part of the assessment for the TCP8090 module was exciting for me. Being an avid author, I have a personal blog where I have written about different themes such as Architecture in a Covid-19 world, Adapting shopping malls to the Ugandan Context, and Mitigating Climate Change using Architecture. These topics were Read the full article…

I had never attempted to publish written content in an online forum connected to my subject of study before, so starting a blog was a new experience for me. When it comes to using blogs for educational purposes, I believe that this semester has been really beneficial to me. Writing allowed me to clarify my Read the full article…