In recent years, it has become apparent that creating a cohesive community is essential for sustainable development. As a result of the housing industry needing to address a national housing shortage and financial uncertainty, we have seen a rise in uneven development, poor quality public space, and less civic participation. Many theorists and designers argue Read the full article…
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What are the principles of neighbourhood design? A community should have a clear centre and boundaries that can be distinguished from the rest. The area has complete facilities such as residential areas and infrastructures such as schools, hospitals, and commercial streets. The suitable area is within a 15-minute walk. Public open spaces (streets and squares, Read the full article…
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Carlos Moreno is credited with developing the concept of the 15-minute city, which has been successfully applied in the city of Paris. The concept is now being examined by a global coalition of 96 mayors and elected city representatives known as C40 Cities, who are considering the impact of the approach in helping them to Read the full article…
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Why code? Our land use planning system does not have a strong track record of consistently producing high quality development. It sometimes manages to stop the very worst new schemes from being built but, with the exception of a small number of exemplary planning authorities, it tends not to be proactive in securing the highest Read the full article…
Published 28 November 2021 by Quitterie d’Harcourt “If in 2015 we had parked all the passenger cars in circulation in a single line, one after the other, the line would have covered approximately 11 times the distance between the Moon and the Earth, or 106 times the circumference of the Earth.” (Bobisse & Pavia, 2019, Read the full article…
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When designing, all designers should consider the present and future of the object being designed, especially in urban planning. Today, urban planning projects must be planned in detail for 5, 10, or 20 years. Who can really “predict” the future and plan everything accurately? The problem with the future is that it is different. We Read the full article…
As one of the subjects connecting various disciplines, urban design has different degrees of involvement in subjects including architecture, landscape design, urban planning and so on. Landscape urbanism, which is also related to urban and landscape design, is naturally necessary for an urban designer to understand. So what is landscape urbanism? A widely accepted view Read the full article…
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（Download from Bing） What is international masterplaning and landscape urbanism International urban master planning and landscape urbanism are ways of thinking about building a city by applying the latest technologies, ideas, materials and other elements. It has high requirements for the construction foundation of the city, the ideological openness and adaptability Read the full article…
A Nation of Luddites: Active Travel as a UK Crises Solution We are experiencing the aftermath of the modernist era. The complex, concrete networks we call roads comprise the cities we experience today. Cities were built around automobiles. The urban thread is therefore largely disconnected from human form, scale and need. The craze Read the full article…
Since joining the MAUD course 3 weeks ago, I have been refamiliarising myself with the provision of bus services from Morpeth in South East Northumberland to Newcastle, and considering the role public transport plays in the economic recovery of the region. So far, I have experienced late departures, unsatisfactory functioning of the Arriva App, timetables Read the full article…
3d model of Amaravathi master plan designed by Norman foster and group “We shape cities, and they shape us” – Jan Gehl. What are smart cities? Smart cities are the new generation of cities developing rapidly around the world. “The effective integration of physical, digital and human systems in the built environment to deliver sustainable, Read the full article…
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“Who’s the Smart One?” by garryknight is licensed under CC BY 2.0 What does it mean by Smart Cities? Smart city uses technological advancements to create, deploy and promote the development of the area. It address challenges in an urban environment. Also, It helps in creating technologically enabled and sustainable infrastructure. The history of smart cities dates back Read the full article…
