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Crescent Communities recently launched a new infographic that explores the health benefits of community spaces and the design elements that go into a great public park – check it out after the break!
Relying on the arts to boost growth, the Creative Corridor project delicately reclaims a neglected Main Street with a historical perspective.
Charles Montgomery's new book finds the intersection of urban policy and well-being.
A detailed data viz pinpoints dirty power plants, too.
‘Los Angeles Taps Community and Crowdfunding to Transform its Streets’
Recent piece from Locavesting highlighting some of the great projects coming out of the Great Streets Challenge Grant:
“Local leaders have stepped up to the plate and are stimulating huge investments in their communities; government, nonprofits, and individuals are working together to bring the best of their sectors to bear on common local concerns; and residents are shaping the future of their neighborhoods like never before.”
Continue here for the full article.
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World’s First Urban Algae Canopy Produces the Oxygen Equivalent of Four Hectares of Woodland Every Day
The Urban Algae Canopy by ecoLogic Studio is a piece of bio-digital architecture that combines micro-algal cultures and real time digital cultivation protocols. To be displayed at Expo Milano 2015, the structure is able to control the flow of energy, water and carbon dioxide based on weather patterns, visitor’s movements, and other environmental variables. It’s the first of its kind in the world, and once fully completed, the canopy will be able to produce the oxygen equivalent of four hectares of woodland, along with nearly 330 pounds of biomass per day.
I’ve been looking for good introductory texts on urban planning and design concepts. The 2009 Designing high-density cities: for social and environmental sustainability edited by Edward Ng includes chapters on the definition of density, reasons for density (especially sustainability), considerations for climate change, and the engineering implications for sound, ventilation, and temperature (urban heat island effects can be awful).
60-61: In tandem with urbanization in Hong Kong, urban temperature has risen faster than in the countryside, winds have slowed, visibility has deteriorated, less solar radiation is reaching the ground, evaporation rates have gone down, and so on. But does it matter? For the rich and the elite, it probably does not. They could switch on air conditioning throughout the year, watch high- definition TV instead of looking at the sky, employ artificial sunlight to get a tan, dry their clothes with electrical devices, etc. Unfortunately, this would raise urban living to an even higher level in terms of high energy consumption, which would, in turn, cause even greater climate change. For people with lesser means, especially the old and the weak, it could, however, become a life-threatening issue. One aspect of climate change that could ‘kill’ people with chronic diseases and old people living alone is the increasing number of hot nights. Figure 5.8 shows the rise in the number of hot nights – that is, nights with a minimum temperature above 28°C, based on Hong Kong Observatory headquarters data from 1961 to 2005. During the 1960s, it was just a few days a year. Now it is roughly 20 days a year.
According to the projection of Leung et al (2004b), the figure would rise to 30 by the end of the century. This city is heading towards a hot, stuffy state of atmosphere. In future summers, the old and the weak living in their tiny rooms in urban areas will have to face an increasing number of hot nights with no air conditioning, little wind and the dampness arising from little sun and little evaporation. They also have to fear the attack of more germs than there used to be since their natural enemies – namely, fresh air and sunshine – have been reduced in strength. Unfortunately, the underprivileged have to look forward to even more tall buildings along the shore or even right at the heart of the urban areas to block the little wind and sunshine left. Buildings are meant to benefit people. But we have seen in the meteorological records presented above that buildings have collectively modified the urban climate in a way unfavourable to healthy living. It is high time for us to rethink the fundamentals of what urban living should look like. Much is in the hands of architects and engineers.
Jeffrey Tumlin to receive award at New Urbanism Film Festival
Jeffrey Tumlin to receive award at New Urbanism Film Festival
Each year, the California Chapter of the Congress for the New Urbanism presents the Paul Crawford Award to an outstanding member who has made considerable contributions to the advancement of the principles of the New Urbanism. The award was created in honor of the late planning director of San Luis Obispo, professor at Cal State San Luis Obispo, and nationally recognized coding expert, and Mr.…
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Columbus’ University District is getting its first protected bike lane as part of a plan to resurface Summit/3rd and 4th streets and add bike lanes along the heavily traveled corridors.
Learn more about it at Dispatch.com!
Many of the world’s greatest cities can trace their historical growth back to one simple and often overlooked geographical aspect: proximity to water. Whether it is the open ocean or a wide, meandering river, countless early cities came to be due to accessibility by ship and the subsequent economic influx that allowed them to flourish into regional or even global powerhouses of trade, commerce, and industry.
In the wake of globalization and post-industrialization, many once-buzzing urban ports and waterfronts have fallen into disuse and disrepair. As cities around the world become increasingly environmentally conscious, and shift their planning to be more people-focused, designers are honing in on waterfronts more than ever, with facelifts in the form of parks, plazas, or even commercial development...
L.A. is the least sprawling metro area in the country, according to this analysis.
[Map: Thomas Laidley]
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Ebenezer Howard _The Garden city
“The English founder of the garden city movement is known for his publication To-Morrow: A Peaceful Path to Real Reform (1898), the description of a utopian city in which people live harmoniously together with nature.”
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what transportation planners think about when walking around cities.
via “Barriers, Barriers, Barriers – Being a Pedestrian in Shenzhen” by raleigh stark, 25.08.15.
“One of the things about Tokyo that contributes to its geometric look is the incredible level of cleanliness.”
Technology x Urban Design
Read Planetizen’s article on 5 ways technology can improve the urban design of our cities HERE
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