London Urban Form 3D Map
The structure of large cities such as London is complex and endlessly fascinating. Effective visualisation…
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Thinking Vienna – Successful Legacy Marketing
In recent years Vienna has topped the rankings as most liveable city in consecutive years. Often enough it is Zuerich in Switzerland and Vienna as the two cities fighting over the first two places. Vienna however has recently overtaken Zuerich and has …
Continue reading »Shaping London by Terry Farrell
I have recently been enjoying Terry Farrell’s book “Shaping London: the patterns and forms that make the metropolis”. Farrell is one of the UK’s best known and respected urban planners, and his passion for place-making and urban culture shine through in this accessible discussion of the development of the capital. Rather than an analysis of […]
Continue reading »Lisbon the Place to Be – Some Toughts
This will be some relate, but maybe thrown together rumbling over a trip to Lisbon with bits and pieces of a conference and various thoughts and discussion extracts that link to this particular context. Being on the road usually brings up numerous new …
Continue reading »Cycling City Tensions
With a few notable exceptions such as Cambridge, cycling in UK cities is minimal compared…
Continue reading »Barratt Homes write National Planning Policy Framework
The UK government is seeking to dramatically overhaul the English planning system, releasing the National…
Continue reading »High Rise Hangover
Swept up in the wave of the mid-2000′s property boom, planning authorities signed-off a series…
Continue reading »Book – Game Urbanism
The widening of the planning process is something we have only seen happening in the past 20 years. Public consultations are older, but not public participation. There was a strong practice of participation in the late eighties and early nineties ,whic…
Continue reading »Book – Game Urbanism
The widening of the planning process is something we have only seen happening in the past 20 years. Public consultations are older, but not public participation. There was a strong practice of participation in the late eighties and early nineties ,whic…
Continue reading »Book – Urban Regeneration in the UK
Urban regeneration in the UK appears to be mainly driven by speculation developer dominated investment projects thought and planned isolated as unique pieced dropped in a pool of likeminded, but distant relatives. As it looks cities, especially inner c…
Continue reading »Book – Urban Regeneration in the UK
Urban regeneration in the UK appears to be mainly driven by speculation developer dominated investment projects thought and planned isolated as unique pieced dropped in a pool of likeminded, but distant relatives. As it looks cities, especially inner c…
Continue reading »Building a New City – Saving the Planet
It hase come a bit out of fashion to build new cities. It sort of comes in waves or trends when suddenly a lot of cities are being planned and built, but then the ide dies out again. The Romans build a lot of cities, then it was quiet in Europe until t…
Continue reading »Message to the Future
The Fukushima nuclear disaster that is ongoing in Japan as a result of the devastating earthquake and the massive Tsunami has now been reassessed and the severity leve is now raised from level 5 to level 7, the same as Chernobyl. This means it is not j…
Continue reading »Book – Amphibious Housing
Picking up on the recent topic of how urban areas deal with water this new Nai Publisher book ‘Amphibious Housing in the Netherlands’ offers a very methodological discussion of different approach and strategies for living with water in urbanised areas….
Continue reading »Think BIG – Copenhagen
Copenhagen is growing fast and with its 539,542 citizens and about 1.2 million in the metro area its a rather busy place. One of the very famous examples in the Copenhagen planning history is the Finger Plan of 1947. Quite interesting how the formal sh…
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