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    • Category: Abandoned Places
      • Can Communities Turn Neglected Spaces into Thriving Places?
      • Living by water: An Alternative approach to urban densification and affordability
      • “Rebirth” a new lease on life
      • Activating residential back alleys to improve social life of streets
      • Unlocking Urban Potential: Transforming Wasted Spaces into Green Zone
      • Building ecological corridors in cities
      • Activating the coastal space of the waterfront city
      • Have you ever wondered how chancy abandoned sites are?
    • Category: Academia
      • THE MOVEMENT BETWEEN TWO NEIGHBOURHOODS: A COMPARITVE STUDY.
      • The Smart “Enough” City
      • Inspiration for urban design in earthquake-active zones
      • Newcastle’s controversial building
      • Where have the public toilets gone in Newcastle
      • Reflexive Summary- Thoughtful Synopsis: The Learning Experience
      • Will women-friendly cities become the next era of “authoritarianism”?
      • RECONNECTING WITH MYSELF
      • Newcastle’s ‘failed’ Modernist Architecture
      • Towards an Effective Urban Environment: Accessible, Fair and Sustainably (THRIVES)- A Paradigm for City Design & Planning that Bridges Both Academia & Practice
      • The impact of the industrial revolution on the architecture
      • Construction on industrial abandoned land
      • Reflective Summary: Journey so far
      • Energy, Heat and Cooling in Housing Architecture (research record)
      • Net Zero Energy Cities by 2030: An Initiative by European Union
      • Reflexive Summary on Our Blog Based Course
      • An Attempt at an Idealistic Urban Vision
      • The Impact of the Industrial Revolution on Urban Form, A Comparison Between East and West (Shanghai & Newcastle)
      • Reflecting on My Design Theory
    • Category: AI use
      • How digitial technology is enabling sustainable community management?
      • Why AI technology can play a huge role in community energy management?
      • What AI Can Do in Urban Design
    • Category: Amphibious architecture
    • Category: Architecture
      • Growing Belonging: Designing Sensory Parks for Inclusive Cities
      • “Re-Naturing / Nurturing?” – a Salve For The Wounds Of The Industrial Age
      • THE THING ABOUT SUBURBIA: A HABIT OF CTRL + C & V.
      • Lecture 6 Urban design health & well-being
      • Blog 2 – Behind the ‘Green’ Facade
      • URBAN DESIGN: BROADENING THE ARCHITECTURAL MIND.
      • Reflective Summary
      • Micro-apartments: A New Option for Future Urban Living
      • Urban Squares as Public Space in Social Life
      • How is passive building practice in urban design? – 2
      • ECO-FRIENDLY DWELLINGS: GREEN ROOFS AND WALL
      • Why You Need a Sustainable Transport Policy?
      • “STREETS” based on “URBAN DESIGN”
      • URBAN DESIGN BLOGS: A REFLECTIVE NARRATIVE
    • Category: Around the world
      • City as a Canvas: Thoughtful Reflection
      • Five Important Factors for Healthy Neighborhood
      • Cultural Heritage Protection and Urban Design
      • Approaches to industrial heritage in urban design
      • Urban Design: Tackling the Challenges with a Creative Edge
      • Application of Phytoremediation in Urban Design
      • Pedestrian-friendly Street: A great asset to the community
      • Sustainable Transport System: Case Study of Seoul, South Korea
      • Urban Design and Economics
      • The Urban Regeneration Project “F1963”
      • The east end of the quayside: an area in transition
      • Conservation and Regeneration: How urban renewal should be carried out in Jinan`s commercial port area?
      • Ice-Breaker Chengdu, The Gifted Land
      • The Elephant in the room.
      • Graffiti and public art: Chalk and Cheese
      • My steps towards Urban waterside Regeneration
      • Managing waste through design
      • Housing Typologies- a case of New Islington, Manchester
      • Urban Squares- An Identity of the City
      • Cycle a’way’ in Ouseburn!
      • Reliving the History
      • The what’s of Transition spaces!!
      • Reflections on Metropolitan Workshop’s practice: People Powered Places
      • Sustainable movement for the people
      • Landscape Urbanism
      • Beyond your imagination — International Urban Master Planning and Landscape Urbanism
      • Urban Design Issues In India
      • Evacuated – Occupied – Fortified; the Only British Territory Captured by Nazi Germany During WW2
    • Category: Biodiversity
      • Wild West End London, How Urban Design can help Pollinators.
      • Building With Nature in Urban Design
      • Sustainable Communities: Challenges and Solutions from an Urban design perspective
      • Reflexive Summary. Semester 2.
      • Harnessing Innovative Building Materials to Combat Climate Change
      • Underwater farming as a potential part of future planning.
      • Biophilic Design in Combating Urban Biodiversity Decrease.
      • The Dilemma of Built vs. Human Dimensions: Balancing Functionality and Cultural Identity in Architecture
    • Category: Blogs
      • Design Lessons Between the Lines: My Blog Writing Growth Notes
      • Waterfront space: the bond between city and nature
      • Writing a blog has truly taken me into the world of urban design
      • What different age groups want from city life – Why do our cities ‘clash’ between the young and the old?
      • Why Do Co-housing Projects Work — and What Can China’s Fourth-Generation Housing Learn from Them?
      • Understanding and reflection on the design of youth communities in the UK
      • Do We Really Need More Parks?
      • Is Affordable Housing Still Possible — or Just a Policy Buzzword?
      • Ideal model for creating a healthy lifestyle: 15 minute living circle
      • Can Churches Be Reimagined for Modern Life?
      • Developing Urban Agriculture: Bringing Nature Back to City Life
      • City on the Roof – How to Transform Idle Roofs into Prosperous Community Spaces?
      • Enhancing Neighborhood Interaction in Residential Communities: A Comparison Between China and the UK
      • Why TOD is important in Newcastle
      • Through My Lens: A Reflective Overview
      • My growth as a blogger
      • Nature Based Solutions in Deprived Areas. Do They Really Work?
      • Reflection on First Semester Blog Writing Experience: Focusing on Sustainable Transportation and Design Codes
      • Reflective Summary
      • REFLECTIVE SUMMARY: LESSONS LEARNT.
      • Reflective summary
      • Reflexive summary of blog
      • Reflective Summary: My semester personal blog summary
      • How Can Residential Design Reduce Crime Rates in the UK?
      • Summary of my experience of participating in the Blog
      • The Power of Design Codes in Urban Planning
      • Building the Future: Lessons from Skerningham Garden Village
      • Development of Slow Moving Transportation Systems——Newcas tle upon Tyne University Pres entation
      • Think about how green facilities can improve the city’s landscape—— Blue Green Newcastle And Shenzhen Futian water system optimization
      • Icebreaker: Who am I and why I choose MAUD
      • Can sustainable housing meet the UK’s Ambitious Delivery Goals?
      • “Building Beyond Boundaries” – stepping into urban design…
      • SMART CITIES: CONNECTING SOCIETY AND TECHNOLOGY
      • Future Communities – An Important Part of China’s Smart City Construction
      • “Reviving Cities: The Economic Story”
      • Residential Change for the Future: Hybrid Residential Design
      • Design for People ; Not Designers
      • Towards Child-Friendly Urban Spaces
      • How did I End Up Here? My Journey to Urban Design.
      • Icebreaker:Who am I and why did I choose to study urban design?
      • Icebreaker: Who am I and why am I studying urban design
      • Sustainable Transport
      • Green Mobility, Bright Future
      • Opening Rivers
      • Icebreaker-background information and the experience with Urban Design
      • Love in urban design-Icebreaker
      • My Journey of Urban Design
      • Blog 1 – Capturing the Financial Backbone of Urban Design
      • Ice Breaker – An Ongoing Pursuit – Edward Fung
      • An innovative learning experience – Reflective blog
      • Semester 2: Reflective Journal
      • Public Spaces Reimagined: Embracing Universal Design
      • ECOTOURISM
      • Planning mechanisms for sustainable urban housing development
      • REFLECTIVE SUMMARY: PEREGRINATION
      • Street Art and Mental Health
      • Transit-Oriented Development (TOD) and Affordable Housing
      • Semester 2 Review: Design Inspiration and Reflections in Blogs
      • Reflexive Summary – Further Study in Semester 2
      • Co-housing community: A modern lifestyle with opportunities and challenges
      • Sustainable urban development – strategies for modern cities
      • Reflexive Summary– What has blog brought me?
      • Reflective summary—- New experience in semester 2
      • How to activate communities around old railways
      • Urban Slow Traffic System —— Creating Pedestrian Friendly Streets
      • A Study of Eco-housing Design Based on the Concept of Eco-modernism
      • Revitalizing Urban Spaces: A Study of Innovative Designs for Community Interaction
      • Effects of urban sprawl on housing availability, transportation, and the environment
      • Reflective summary
      • How to deal with loneliness in urban design?
      • How to make cities more friendly to “women”?
      • Reflective Summary ——Learning and exploring: My growth in blogging
      • Developing Newcastle (and Gateshead, too!) through Culture
      • “Pedestrian Patterns and Housing Trends: Analyzing Residential Choices in Walkable Urban Areas”
      • MUNDANE
      • Hidden Potential: Transforming Leftover Space Into Thriving Community Spaces
      • Green Future – Sustainable Buildings
      • Inclusive Living Community Design
      • How mixed-use neighbourhood development impacts community walkability
      • Reflexive Summary–My experience of participating in the Blog in semester 2
      • Inclusive and sustainable development of modern communities
      • Affordable housing: A more efficient and reasonable housing model
      • What can be done to improve the quality of living and the neighbourhood environment of affordable housing?
      • How to ensure the sustainability of inclusive communities?
      • How Mixed Neighbourhood Development Can Improve Street Safety
      • How is passive building practice in urban design? – 1
      • Are Green Spaces Important in Urban Design?
      • Reshaping Residential Areas for Sustainable Future
      • Shared Streets / Exploring the Integration of Urban Design and Transportation Design
      • Her City: Urban Streets Where Women Can Live Without Fear
      • King Cross Inclusive & Accessible Design
      • Reflective Summary
      • Ice Breaker
      • Child-Friendly Urban Design: Nurturing Futures through Affordance in London
      • Ice Breaker – Vaneti Lativa
      • Reflective Summary
      • Healthy Neighbourhoods: Benefits of a Walkable City
      • Reflective summary – Reviewing of my blogging journey in seminar1
      • Reflective Summary—— A new way of learning
      • Icebreaker: The Dynamic Intersection of Architecture and Urban Design”
      • A thoughtful approach
      • Preserving Cultural Heritage: Design Codes for Heritage Conservation in Urban Spaces
      • Reimagining Classrooms: Integrating Educational Spaces into Urban Design
      • ”Beyond Skylines: Urban Design Alchemy for Wellness Wonders”
      • Mental health importance in Urban cities
      • Urban Innovations: Navigating the Future with Smart Cities
      • Upon Reflection
      • ICEBREAKER – Nightlife and Urban Design
      • Why Urban Design Needs Economics
      • Reflective Summary— A New Learning Experience
      • Reflective Summary
      • JOURNEY SO FAR
      • Icebreaker: Urban design through a Southeast Asian perspective
      • Reflective Summary: Reflecting on My Urban Design Blog-Making Journey
      • ONE STEP FORWARD
      • Reflective summary—— Blogging is an interesting experiment for me
      • Designing Healthier Neighborhoods
      • Reflective summary – new journey
      • Sustainable Horizons: Navigating the Future of Smart Cities
      • Community Sanctuaries: How Public Spaces Influenced Well-being
      • Reflexive Summary–My experience of participating in the Blog in semester 1
      • Design Codes : what they are and how to create them ?
      • Smart cities : How technology can deliver a better quality of life?
      • Canals: New National Health Service?
      • Reflective Summary in Semester 1 – My First Impressions and Experience of Blog
      • The “Role” of the Design Code
      • Who Really Benefits From Smart Cities?
      • REWILDING THE CITY: DESIGNING URBAN SPACES FOR NATURE
      • Healthy Neighborhoods: Building better communities
      • Creating Thriving Environments: Unveiling the Secret to Healthy Neighbourhoods
      • CREATE WELL-LIVING COMMUNITIES AND WELL-BEING ENVIRONMENTS
      • Ice Breaker: Brasilia of the North
      • Icebreaker 
      • HOW TO MOVE TOWARDS SMARTER CITIES
      • Exploration and research on the construction and governance experience of “Smart Cities”
      • The hidden relationship between urban design and well-being
      • Cityscapes of Joy: Pioneering Child Centric Urban Spaces
      • Smart Society Building Smart Cities
      • What is smart cities?
      • Those cities that are at the forefront of smart cities
      • SMART CITIES: Future urban development trends
      • Optimization and Sustainability of Urban Transportation Structures in China
      • CHILD-FRIENDLY URBAN DESIGN: NATURALISTIC PLAYGROUNDS AS AN ACTIVE LEARNING CLASSROOM
      • LIFE SPACE BUILDING
      • FIVE-STAR PUBLIC SPACE: WHAT MAKES A GREAT PUBLIC SPACE?
      • Ice Breaker – Where Imagination Meets the City: Me, Architecture and Urban Design
      • Child-Friendly Urban Design
      • Sustainable Transport: Is High-speed Rail Sustainable?
      • Sustainable Transport:benefical method for global environment
      • Analyzing Sustainable Transport:Car sharing.
      • Using a sustainable transport strategy to combat environmental needs and energy insufficiency
      • SUSTAINABLE TRANSPORT
      • The nature of sustainable transport
      • CHILD FRIENDLY URBAN DESIGN
      • ICEBREAKER: WHERE ARCHITECTURE MEETS URBAN DESIGN
      • CHILD FRIENDLY URBAN DESIGN
      • CHILD FRIENDLY URBAN DESIGN: CHILDREN ARE NOT WELCOME IN PUBLIC SPACE
      • Icebreaker – Shaping Inclusive Cities: Women’s Safety and Empowerment in Urban Design.
      • Category: Public Spaces Reimagined: Embracing Universal Design
        • Category: Blogs
          • Reflection on Semester2 Blog Writing Experience: Focusing on Urban Farm and Rain Garden
          • Reflective Summary: Bridging Design, Culture, and Community
          • Growing Together: Designing Community Gardens for Inclusive Cities
          • Reflective Summary: Writing a Blog Isn’t Just “Writing Sonething”
          • Rain Gardens: Urban ‘Pressure-relief Valves’ in the Age of Floods
          • Summary of the Second Semester
          • Reflective summary-Keep Going and Infinite Progress
          • Brownfield Governance and Urban Farms in Urban Design
          • Urban Safety After Dark, Rethinking Design in Nightlife Districts
          • How to explore community engagement in rain garden implementation?
          • Holistic approach to designing for health and well-being.
          • Reflective Summary
          • Reflexive summary: My Last Journey
          • Reflexive Summary – Edward Fung
          • Nature-Based Solutions in Marginalised Areas
          • How Design Codes Shape the Future of Communities
          • Child-Friendly Urban Design: A Student Perspective on Pitsikali
          • Understanding of Smart Cities and Digital Cities
          • Ice Breaker: In Search of My Design Philosophy
          • Design Codes and Urban Transformation: A Shanghai Perspective on Building Sustainable Futures
          • A livable community that puts people first—Lecture9 Liveable Neighbourhoods-Ben Coleman
          • Livable community: creating a happy life for people
          • Urban design: sustainable, people-centered urban spaces
          • Rise of Blue Green Cities
          • Why We Should Design Urban Spaces with Children at the Heart
          • Rediscovering Play: The Value of Improvised and Recycled Spaces
          • Urban Design in the Perspective of Economic Vitality: Building a Unique Urban Identity
          • Up Close And Personal: Me And My Urban Design Journey!
          • Public Space in the Perspective of Children’s Right to Play
          • Sustainable transportation in Chengdu: The key to green development
          • Icebreaker:Who am I and why did I choose to study urban design?
          • Icebreaker
          • Ice-breaker: Who am I and what do I feel? – Ukrainian perception of urban design and architecture
          • The Journey Must Go On
          • Upon Reflection: Part 2
          • Continuing my hectic journey
          • Coastal Revival: A ‘Blue’ Approach
          • Integrate parking lot into housing, why not?
          • Reflexive Summary-Semester 2
          • Reflexive Summary – My Blogging Journey in Semester 2
          • Vertical Forest, a temporary trend or a long-term sustainable solution?
          • The Impact of Covid-19 on the UK Housing Crisis – Part Two
          • Reflexive Summary
          • Reflective summary-Blog for my experience growth semester 2
          • How to create a co-living community?
          • Urban Design that is Beneficial for Children
          • Enhancing Women’s Travel Experience – Gender Mainstreaming in Urban Design
          • The Impact of Covid-19 on the UK Housing Crisis – Part One
          • Modular Housing – an answer to the student housing crisis?
          • Reflective Summary: My Blog-Writing Journey
          • Urban Design, Health, and Wellbeing: Unravelling the Paradox
          • Reflective Summary – Almost there
          • 5-star public spaces
          • Urban design & well-being
          • Economic Viability in Urban Design
          • Reflexive Summary: MAUD Blog- A Collective knowledge hub
          • WHAT N WHY
          • How Urban Design Creates Healthy Neighbourhoods
          • Reflexive Summary – My Blogging Experience and Growth in Semester 1
          • Reflexive summary-Blog for my experience growth.
          • Urban Design and Wellbeing.
          • Exploring the interdependence between Urban Design and Wellbeing
          • Designing for tomorrow: Ice Breaker
          • Icebreaker
          • How to Design a Sustainable Urban Transport?
          • Ice-breaker -The essences of this transition from architecture to human -centric approach to urban design .
          • A SPACE TO GATHER, MAKE IT TOGETHER- PUBLIC SPACE
          • Reviving Public Spaces: The Impact of Digital Placemaking
          • Icebreaker
          • Importance of Child friendly cities & its implementation
          • Sustainable Transport – An Exploration of Sustainable Transport Structures in Singapore
          • Green Spaces: A Prescription for Urban Mental Wellness
          • FIVE STAR PUBLIC SPACE
          • The “secret” of high-quality public space
          • CHILD FRIENDLY URBAN DESIGN
          • Ice Breaker: The Big and the Little
          • Ice breaker
          • Icebreaker- The inception
          • Icebreaker: Engineering to Urban Design
          • Benefits of Prioritizing Child-friendly Urban Design
          • International Experience in Child Friendly Urban Design
          • FOUR BASIC CONDITIONS FOR CHILDREN FRIENDLY URBAN DESIGN
          • Icebreaker: My views on urban design
          • Ice Breaker: Initial Impressions of Urban Design
          • CHILD FRIENDLY URBAN DESIGN: The introduction of child-friendly facilities and planning
          • Icebreaker: The beginning of the journey
          • ICE BREAKER
          • ICE BREAKER
          • IceBreaker
          • IceBreaker
          • Icebreaker
          • Icebreaker: Space justice
          • Reflective Blog
          • REFLEXIVE SUMMARY
          • Street Furniture in Housing
          • Urban Adaptability
          • AN APPROACH FOR NET ZERO EMISSION
          • Sustainable Mobility
          • Core principles and Design strategies for creating flood-resilient environments.
          • Analyzing River-Front Projects
          • Scales of Urban Density
          • In the city, from where does the carbon come?
          • Importance of water in the Urban Fabric
          • Revisiting the low-cost housing designed by B.V. Doshi: Part- B
          • Revisiting the low-cost housing designed by B.V. Doshi: Part A
          • Toward a better environment
          • Reflection Summary by Jason He——Semester 1
          • REFLEXIVE SUMMARY
          • Looking back at the blogging expedition!
          • Reflecting on my Journey so Far
          • Future of Green Infrastructure
          • Usage of Pubic Spaces
          • Sustainable Transport
          • Newcastle upon Tyne,The city that aspires to be iconic
          • Urban interventions: Part B
          • How Pixel Art Helps People Learn About Historic Architecture Through Games
          • Spiritual Environment Brings People Health and Happiness
          • A day in a life of a south Asian student
          • Journey of Architecture!
          • To Watch A Further Future In Design
          • And Breathe… Looking Back After a Busy Semester
          • Urban Design; an Informed but by No Means Expert Opinion
          • Linear Parks; a Linear Path to Greener Cities
          • Waging a War; Place-makers on the Frontline
          • COVID-19: An Unlikely Catalyst to High Street Regeneration
          • Review before moving on
          • 2 out of 3 Semesters
          • Urban spatial perception in Newcastle
          • Greening urban design: A place to live in nature
          • Progressive urban regeneration project: Manchester (2)
          • Measures for Enhancement
          • Community engagement: Fenham Futures
          • Reflecting and lessons learnt
          • Looking back on the past two academic years
          • Looking back, looking forward…
          • Onto the next chapter
          • Looking back, to a way forward
          • Nine Planning Principles for the Twenty-First Century
          • The adaptive reuse of houses of worship
          • Urban design that creates unsafe spaces for women
          • Reflection on my blog writing
          • The impact of the professional shift on design principles
          • Urban design codes
          • How can we encourage active travel through urban design?
          • Economic and Effective Urban Design
          • What are the benefits of Sustainable Drainage Systems (SuDS)?
          • Mixed age-appropriate community
          • Community Engaging Housing Schemes
          • Design Points of Rigid Pavement Materials for Pedestrian Road Space
          • Allotments: An alternative to green washing
          • A neglected urban public space – the space underneath the viaduct
          • RESTORATIVE CITIES-MENTAL HEALTH AND WELLBEING
          • New East Manchester: Urban Renaissance
          • Multi-generational Housing – addressing the housing crisis and changing cultures
          • Age-Friendly Spaces
          • Building with Nature: a framework to inspire the next generation of placemaking.
          • Progressive urban regeneration project: Manchester (1)
          • Affordance and Play: Chandless Estate
          • The right given to everyone (2) – Why is the right to a neighbourhood important?
          • The need and importance of sustainability in design
          • The difference between practical projects and school projects
          • Reasonable arrangement of  hours
          • The New Normal for High Streets
          • Urban Design on Urban Carbon Emissions
          • Sea Level Rise and Future Urban Change
          • Working cities – Newcastle & Gateshead
          • Sustainable Community Transport
          • Tutorial, design and reflection
          • What is Landscape Urbanism?
          • 15 minutes life circle
          • Low-traffic neighbourhoods – supporting sustainable travel or public nuisance?
          • Urban street space
          • Urban street design in different population density
          • Glasgow’s East End Local Development Strategy: a case study of sustainable spatial strategy
          • The design of urban public spaces and their rise and fall
          • house typology
          • SITE MODEL MAKING
          • NEW FACADE FOR OLD BUILDINGS
          • The right given to everyone (1) – What is the right to a neighbourhood?
          • Urban food deserts
          • How have cars contributed to the obesity crisis?
          • How do we design inclusive spaces?
          • Towards betterment…..
          • ‘Woonerf’: A Refuge Opportunity for Us All
          • A Space for Mental Resilience
          • Reflections on my blog writing
          • Urban Design: A new journey for me
          • Are Blue spaces better than green spaces?
          • Reflection on Practice: Community engagement
          • My journey so far…
          • The pandemic’s effects on smart cities
          • Low traffic neighbourhood
          • Urban agriculture? A new impetus for the Salutogenic Environment!
          • Can cities improve our health?
          • Salutogenic Environments
          • The significance of urban design codes
          • Reflections on Practice: Community-Led Design
          • How to design Neighbourhood?
          • Is Newcastle a 15-minute city?
          • Urban design codes
          • How vehicles provide and dismantle space
          • INTERNATIONAL MASTER PLANNING & LANDSCAPE URBANISM
          • A Nation of Luddites: Active Travel as a UK Crises Solution
          • Is Public Transport in South East Northumberland fit for purpose?
          • Smart Cities- is smart city & place making the future?
          • Smart Cities- A New Tomorrow!
          • Smart Cities – The Future of Urban Design?
          • Cycle Boom! Cycle no more?
          • What makes a good neighbourhood?
          • Economic and Effective Urban Design
          • Introduction to Urban Design
          • How can we contribute to the realm of Urban Design
          • Do we design urban?
          • PARIS: Pedestrianizing the settings of the Eiffel Tower
          • ICEBREAKER ON URBAN DESIGN
          • Urban design is more than just “urban design”
          • ‘WHAT IS URBAN DESIGN?’
          • Icebreaker-Opportunities and Challenges of Urban Design in China
          • Economics and Effective Urban Design
          • Icebreaker-Sustainable Urban Design
          • ICE BREAKER: ME AND URBAN DESIGN
          • After 30 years later of Korea’s rapid growth
          • The Role of Urban Design in Sustainable Development
          • First blog ice break
    • Category: Building for life
      • What factors are composing the community
      • Exploring child-friendly urban public spaces
      • A Discussion on Designing Neighbourhoods
      • Urban spaces: neighbourhood streets with pedestrian friendly streets
      • Reflections on Design
      • Biophilic Design
      • Category: unicef
    • Category: Charrette
      • Application of high technology in urban life
    • Category: Child Friendly
    • Category: Children
      • Discuss About the Importance of Reading Space in A City
      • Category: child-friendly
    • Category: Circular Economy
      • Time to Shift: Linear to Circular Economy
    • Category: city character
      • HEALTHY NEIGBOURHOOD
      • How Zaha Hadid challenges many established perceptions
      • Category: design and cities
    • Category: climate change
      • Co-living community design from the perspective of urban design
      • Designing with green infrastructures for climate-proof urban regeneration
      • Step back! We are affecting oceans
    • Category: Community
      • Can Vauban Teach Us How to Design Truly Resilient and Inclusive Communities?
      • Reflective Summary in Semester 2-What a Fantastic Journey
      • The Meaning of The Coworking Model in Urban Design
      • How to Build a Better City in Mordern Society?(Ⅰ)
      • The Importance of Community Engagement in Urban Biodiversity Conservation and Climate Change
      • Building Spatial Resilience in Urban Communities
      • Ⅰ Think about slum issues ——Urban Design
      • Creating Playful Space for Vertical Living Children in Compact Cities
      • ‘Placemaking’ over ‘Urban Designing’
      • “Wall“ in Chinese Neighborhood
      • Urban vs Rural
      • Neighbourhood design
      • Category: Coworking
    • Category: Community engagement
      • Vernacular architecture by Geoffrey Bawa
      • Public spaces: How to improve the connection between the Public and the Street.
      • Public participation; a pre-requisite for a good neighbourhood design
      • Wonderful Exploration in Neighborhood Relationship
      • Urban Graffiti from the Perspective of Urban Design
      • Urban regeneration: Integrating health and sustainability into urban renewal
      • Community under the Epidemic-Urban Design
      • Housing Standard
    • Category: Crime
    • Category: Design
      • Emergence of Design Codes
      • Computational design in Architecture
      • Are Smart Cities Improving Inclusive Space for Children?
    • Category: Design codes
      • “Crucial Design Codes Shaping Urban look”
    • Category: Design Theory
      • ADAPTIVE REUSE
      • Sustainable urban design 8 principles
      • Economic Viability in Urban Design
      • Cities to be more ambitious – Sustainable transport
      • Designers guideline to ensure Mental Health is considered.
      • Phenomenology and its Meaning for Designers
      • Category: Landscape Urbanism
        • Landscape Urbanism
    • Category: Digital Technology
    • Category: Disaster treatment
      • Use 3D printing technology to solve the temporary housing problem after the earthquake
    • Category: Economics
    • Category: environmental future
      • Thinking about the environment: Part two:
      • Thinking about the environment: Part one:
      • Strategies for building a livable city
      • Smart urban design
    • Category: Farming
    • Category: Floating house
    • Category: Game Art
    • Category: Green Infrastructure
      • Livelier City Streets – Shared Spaces
      • Green Spaces for Healing and Recovery: The Importance of Green Infrastructure in Promoting Health and Well-Being in the Post-Pandemic Era
      • “It’s never too late to mend”: The United States Catastrophic Transportation System
      • Green Infrastructure; a path towards Healthier Cities
    • Category: Health
      • Urban Design and People’s Wellbeing
      • Health is Wealth
    • Category: Health and Wellbeing
      • The Interconnection Of Urban Design To Human Health And Condition
      • The Power of Walkability: Creating Livable and Vibrant Pedestrian-Friendly Communities
      • Urban Smell Space and Olfactory Reply
      • A RIVERFRONT.
      • Walkable city
      • HOW HEALTH AND URBAN DESIGN ARE INTER RELATED
      • Two Birds One Stone: Sustainable Public Transport As A Catalyst For Improved Health & Wellbeing
      • Four steps towards a healthier city
      • Community Green Space and Health
      • Passive Design
    • Category: History
    • Category: Housing
      • TRADITIONAL POL HOUSES OF AHMEDABAD.
      • Sustainable Co-Housing: A Solution to Urban Living Challenges
      • Urban design and cohousing: creating more sustainable and humane community environments
      • A study of a modular building in the UK
    • Category: Human activities
    • Category: Ice-breaker
      • Background, experience and what I want to do in the future.
      • Icebreaker
      • ICE BREAKER
      • Ice—breaker
      • Ice Breaker: Designated for Human
      • Icebreaker
      • AM I THERE YET…!
      • My Life journey to Urban design
      • My Journey towards being an Urban Designer
      • Grey’s Monument area through the William Whyte “filter”
      • A NEW CITY FEELS LIKE A HOME!
      • Odyssey…
      • The Record of My Journey: North Shields and South Shields
      • Design of spaces have an impact on how we are shaped
      • Urban Revitalization in my Hometown
      • Ice-Breaker My Living City-Beijing
      • An icebreaker on the Urban Design course
      • Thinking of Urban design
    • Category: Innovations
    • Category: Liveable Cities
      • A Child-Centric Urban Design Initiative
    • Category: Living by water
    • Category: Marine Life
    • Category: Mural
      • Category: Mural
    • Category: Neighbourhood Relationship
      • DESIGN OF NEIGHBOURHOODS An Incredibly Easy Method That Works For All.
    • Category: Neighbourhoods
      • Category: Neighbourhood development
        • A Friendly Neighbourhood design.
    • Category: Newcastle upon Tyne
      • Sustainable coastal area planning – relevant examples and application in Whitely Bay
      • Reflection of my experience of writing a blog
      • Impressions of Nantong and Newcastle
    • Category: News & Events
      • Category: Research output
    • Category: oceans
    • Category: Pandemic resilience
    • Category: Pedestrian friendly
    • Category: permaculture
    • Category: Personal reflection
      • Reflective Summary
      • Exploring Urban Design: A Reflective Journey
      • Reflective overview
      • ODYSSEY
      • Looking back on my journey
      • Looking back and summing up
      • REFLEXIVE SUMMARY OF MY BLOGGING EXPERIENCE
      • My Blogging Experience
      • Reflection on being a blogger
      • Reviewing this semester’s blogging experience
    • Category: Placemaking
      • Empowering Tomorrow: The Rise and Evolution of Smart Cities
      • What kind of public spaces are successful?
      • Category: public space
    • Category: politics
    • Category: Psychology of a place
      • How are you feeling?
    • Category: Railway
    • Category: Reflective Summaries
      • Personal Semester Reflexive Summary
      • Reflective Summary: My Blog-Writing Journey
      • A Reflection on Semester Two
      • MAUD Blog- “Mutual growth is the key”
      • Reflective Summary on Semester 1
      • The Beginning Middle and End
      • Reflexive blog
      • Reflexive summary
      • Housing Blogging Reflections
      • A reflection on my blogging experience
      • A reflection of an Architect, Urban Designer and a Rookie Blogger
      • Reviewing my blogging journey
      • Reflecting on My Blogging Journey
      • Personal Experience of Studying The Urban Design
      • A reflection on my blogging experience this semester
      • Looking back..
      • Embracing The Future
      • Moving forward
      • Reflecting on the blog experience
      • My Blogging Experience
      • Reflection on my blog writing
      • Moving on to the next semester!
      • The value I get from BLOG
      • Reflection on blogging
      • Looking back on my first blogging experience…
      • My continuous growth
      • Reflecting on the Blogging Experience
      • Looking back
    • Category: Reflexive Summary
      • From Chaos to Clicks: My Blogging Glow-Up
      • Reflective Summary – From Recording to Reflecting
      • An Adventurous Endeavour …
      • My Blogging Journey: The Good, The Bad, and The Funny
      • Reflecting on the previous journey
      • Reflective blog
      • I’ve just started…
      • Second Semester Course Reflection
      • reflexive summary
      • Reflexive Summary
      • Reflexive Summary
      • Reflexive Summary
      • Reflexive Summary
      • reflexive summary
    • Category: Rural
    • Category: Severe cold areas,Housing
      • housing construction in severe cold regions
    • Category: Smart city
    • Category: Smell space
    • Category: Street design
      • A vision to Safer streets.
    • Category: Sustainability
      • Sharing experiences in sustainable transportation – the examples of Odense and Lübeck
      • Creating Green Space Sustainability through Low-Budget and Up-cycling Strategies
      • Sustainable material: composite mycelium
      • Healthy buildings and earth materials
      • Urban Design and Sustainable Materials
      • Using technology to create more sustainable cities
      • Sustainable Transport and the Climate Change
      • Current status of sustainable transport and three possible transport systems
      • Sustainable Transport in China
    • Category: Technology
    • Category: Transport
      • EXAMPLE OF PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION.
      • The 15-Minute City and Sustainable Transport: A Vision for the Future
      • The development of sustainable transport – the case of China
    • Category: Uncategorized
      • Reflective Summary: My Exploration of Integrating Agriculture into Urban Design
      • Growth Through Writing, Reflections on Semester 2
      • Can affordable housing work at scale?
      • Final Thoughts: A Reflective Summary
      • Reflective Summary: The Ups and Downs
      • Personal Semester Reflexive Summary
      • Reflective Summary – “Each conclusion sparks fresh starts”
      • Skyscraper Gardens: Embracing Urban Greenery
      • Semester 2 Reflective Summary
      • Renewal of Urban Railway Area
      • A series of events : Reflective Summary
      • Mixed Used Housing
      • A NEW PERSPECTIVE ON HOUSING IN URBAN DESIGN: A REFLEXIVE SUMMARY
      • Contact With Blog Semester – 2
      • Humanizing Urban cities
      • Reflective Summary-My Learning and Reflections
      • SUSTAINABLE CITY IN URBAN DEVELOPMENT
      • High Density Housing
      • Co-Housing in an urban environment
      • Green Spaces’ Significance in urban spaces
      • Reflexive summary: A Blogging Voyage of Simplicity and Elegance”
      • A collective information
      • Reflexive summary:Write it at the end of the journey
      • Reflective summary- Constant Learning
      • Reflective summary-My experience of being a blogger.
      • Towards Wellness in urban design
      • PUBLIC SPACES
      • ICE breaker
      • Exordium
      • Insertion
      • Reflection and Summary
      • Reflective Summary
      • An excellent case of urban design
      • Reflection and Summary
      • Designing Public Spaces that Cater to the Needs of Women
      • SEMESTER 2 REFLEXIVE SUMMARY
      • Reflection and Summary
      • Multigenerational Housing Design
      • Urban Planning: The Evolution of Cycling Infrastructure
      • Make Space More Welcoming to Adolescent Girls
      • Second Stage Reflexive summary
      • Urban Design – Urban Sculpture in Public Space Art for Different Urban Cultures
      • 2023 Second Stage Reflexive summary
      • Biophilic Architecture: a way to connect public and private sector
      • Social inequalities and Urban design
      • Creating Livable Neighborhoods: Exploring the Design Strategies of Co-housing
      • Exploring the Vital Role of Waterfront Design in Urban Spaces
      • Sustainable Communities
      • Reflective summary: Understanding the process through the housing alternatives and use of design codes
      • HOW A PLACE MAKING DESIGN CONTRIBUTES TO NET ZERO CARBON EMISSIONS
      • The urban coastal systems
      • Activating an ageing city
      • Building Social Cohesion in the UK: Challenges and Strategies
      • Application of Humanized Design in Urban Road Planning and Design
      • Bringing the city back to children——Exploring child-friendly cities
      • Strategies for Urban Resiliency
      • Affordable Housing Crisis
      • Reflection Summary
      • Reflection Summary
      • Reflexive blog–my difficulties and gains in first semester
      • Reflection on being a blogger
      • Icebreaker
      • Urban interventions: Part A
      • The Urban Planning of Shantou
      • About the concept of “One Shantou”
      • Significance of public transport for sustainable urban development
      • Sustainable transport
      • Spatial strategies for sustainable transport-oriented in city centre areas
      • About my hometown
      • The socioeconomic impact of urban design
      • Green space and health
      • Icebreaker – Where I grew up – Shanxi
      • Jinan, My Hometown
      • Looking back, and looking forward
      • The development of small cities and the problems they face
      • Reflection and outlook  
      • Looking back, looking forward
      • Using the landscape to enhance the experience of people moving through the building
      • Design of Street Spaces
      • My understanding of urban gentrification
      • Reflections on my blog
      • Living Streets
      • Neighbourhood Design
    • Category: urban
      • Category: Negative Issues
    • Category: Urban Design
      • How to Make Cities More Accessible for Everyone?
    • Category: urban design and wellbeing
    • Category: Urban green spaces
    • Category: Urban planning
    • Category: walkability
    • Category: War
    • Category: waste management
    • Category: Zaha Hadid

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