Resilient Urbanisms

From Landscape Urbanism to Green Infrastructure to Spatial Design, each framework regards ecology as its primary tenet. An ecological system's resilience is built up over time, yet can be undone in a brief moment. This blog intends to share diverse perspectives on these evolving frameworks and to explore solutions to sustaining resilient urbanisms.

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Regenerative Agriculture Part 4: The Benefits

The regenerative agriculture movement is reviving an Indigenous approach to agriculture and flipping the narrative to show how agriculture can help restore ecologies, fight climate change, rebuild relationships, spark economic development, and bring people—consumers AND farmers and ranchers—joy.

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Experts identify 'super-plant' that absorbs roadside air pollution

Bushy variety of cotoneaster works best in areas of heavy traffic, say researchers, while other plants can cool buildings or reduce flooding

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Former city airport runway is transformed into a stunning park

The project is the brainchild of U.S-headquartered international architecture firm Sasaki, which has transformed the concrete runway of Shanghai's Longhua Airport.

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Designed To Bring Out The Beautiful Colors Of The Garden. CONTACT US A sneak peek into what's been happening in Scented Garden... after sustainable and accessible facelift is just about ready for visitors! After a few final touches,

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EXCLUSIVE. How Paris will plant 170,000 trees by 2026

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Fields of gold: Australia's bumper canola harvest – in pictures

In spring, canola crops burst into flower in the Riverina and central west regions of NSW, creating a sea of yellow. Tourists have been travelling to farms to photograph the coloured landscape as an alternative to travelling interstate during lockdown

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How has Singapore learned to blend nature with urban living? | Living

After destroying 95% of its vegetation, the city has managed to establish itself as a beacon for green infrastructure.

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Fields of gold: Australia's bumper canola harvest – in pictures

In spring, canola crops burst into flower in the Riverina and central west regions of NSW, creating a sea of yellow. Tourists have been travelling to farms to photograph the coloured landscape as an alternative to travelling interstate during lockdown

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#googleurbanism or: Remote Research - Transforming Peripheries Magazine

Christof Mayer, raumlabor and Ute Meyer, urbanes.land, discuss in-between territories and experimental ways to decipher and picture their character from a physical distance.

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The great rebalancing: working from home fuels rise of the 'secondary city'

A fall in commuting due to the pandemic is already prompting workers to move out of the major metropolises

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The great rebalancing: working from home fuels rise of the 'secondary city'

A fall in commuting due to the pandemic is already prompting workers to move out of the major metropolises

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Coronavirus highlights the need for open green spaces in cities

In times of social distancing, green areas are more important than ever

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Environmental groups urge Toronto to turn city golf courses into parks, urban farms and housing

As Toronto city council decides on the fate of some golf courses, environmental groups are making the case for a fresh approach to public space.

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From garden streets to bike highways: four ideas for post-Covid cities – visualised

As coronavirus wreaks havoc on existing structures, we take a look at some visions for cities of the future – and how they hold up

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Nature in Cities in a Post-Covid-19 World: Don’t Blame Urban Density in a Pandemic – The Nature of Cities

As a city and regional planner by training, I have been alarmed at the tendency to blame urban density (defined as people per square mile) as a primary culprit for New York City’s relatively severe initial COVID-19 outbreak. An epidemiologist from Stanford, a professor of infectious diseases at the University of California, and a professor … Continue reading Nature in Cities in a Post-Covid-19 World: Don’t Blame Urban Density in a Pandemic →

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What Smells Can Teach Us About History

How we perceive the senses changes in different historical, political, and cultural contexts. Sensory historians ask what people smelled, touched and tasted—all to learn more about the past.