Growing Food, Growing Community: Rethinking Urban Agriculture In the modern city, food often feels distant. It arrives plastic-wrapped and barcode-tagged, traveling hundreds or even thousands of kilometers before it lands on our plates. The connection between land and meals, soil and society, has been quietly severed. But urban agriculture is beginning to restitch that bond. Read the full article…

With the development of urbanization, spatial resources have become increasingly scarce, and the ground space around buildings is almost completely occupied, leaving only the roof space. The roof, which is often overlooked, is often considered the “fifth facade” of a building. Nowadays, many designers and communities are reconsidering the potential of this space and striving to Read the full article…

How to explore community engagement in rain garden implementation？ In the construction of sustainable cities, rain gardens are used as a kind of green infrastructure and have many function such as rainwater regulation, biodiversity restoration.But when we report effectiveness, people more focus on technical indicators and ecological result.While social feedback and participation are ignored majority time. We Read the full article…

In modern urban life, neighborhood interaction is gradually declining, affecting social cohesion and residents’ well-being. The design of residential communities plays a crucial role in shaping these interactions. China and the UK have distinct approaches—Chinese residential compounds are often enclosed and managed by property companies, while British communities tend to be more open and encourage Read the full article…

Introduction Whenever I walk through the area around Newcastle’s Central Station, it’s buzzing with life. Shops, people, and public spaces naturally cluster around it TOD is not a new thing. Many cities around the world have been using this model in recent decades. It is a public transportation-oriented development model that focuses on the hustle Read the full article…

In today’s rapidly urbanising world, cities are growing faster than ever before. Developers focusing on creating more infrastructure often forget about the little creatures that are so vital to our environment: pollinators. From bees, butterflies and even birds, pollinators are key to our ecosystems and agriculture. Thankfully, we can support these creatures and promote biodiversity Read the full article…

Introduction The community is the foundation of the city and the basic unit of production activities for urban residents. If we compare the family to the cells on which the operation of society depends, then the community in which countless families live is an important organ composed of individual cells. As the process of urbanisation Read the full article…

Have you ever walked past a neglected alley or an empty lot in your neighborhood and wondered, What if this space could be something more? In many places, communities are stepping up with a sense of responsibility to reclaim and improve the spaces where they live. One such inspiring case is a once run-down alley Read the full article…

Introduction Tracing back to the origins of humankind, it seems that we have been tagged as social animals, we are used to living in a settlement, we are used to the unique atmosphere formed by a small group, which we call life. From the earliest primitive settlements to the current residential communities, different types and Read the full article…

At the beginning of the module, I was excited about the lecture series as I knew I would have a lot of freedom in choosing what I would blog about. I decided that, as the tone of a blog is more colloquial,   I would write my blogs on topics I felt interested in and Read the full article…

Blog writing has given a creative academic outlet this semester and I really leaned into my passions when choosing my blog topics. I enjoyed researching and learning from other blog contributions and when engaging on others posts I chose to challenge myself by taking alternative approaches. For ‘Liveable Community: Creating a happy life for people’, Read the full article…

Key Takeaways from my experience This module has provided an interesting and unique approach for me to delve into critical topics and to explore them through research, group collaboration and writing after these. Each week I was introduced to different engaging lectures and themes to reflect upon, these included the intersection of sustainability, urban design Read the full article…