Urban Design

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• Geometric Park Heals a Rocky Rift in Bilbao

  
  INHABITAT — Authority: 730
  A beautiful geometric park has sprouted upon a once-barren slope that split two suburbs in Bilbao, Spain. Designed by ACXT , Pau Casals Square is a vibrant expanse of green space that connects the surrounding neighborhoods and creates a place for people to sit or stroll. The striking public park consolidates an ...
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• New UK Library Fits Within a Phone Booth

  
  The Far Edge — Authority: 152
  London is calling! Actually, it’s Westbury-sub-Mendip’s new 24-hour phone booth library ! After witnessing their weekly mobile library disappear, this wee town in the south of England town wasn’t going to let their iconic phone booth be taken away as well. Conceived by a local resident as a way to save a bit of ...
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• Building Sustainability, Block by Block

  
  Worldchanging: Bright Green — Authority: 639
  WorldChanging Team: As a veteran of Seattle’s neighborhood planning process—both as City staff and as a neighborhood planner—I am intrigued by Portland’s Eco District Initiative. It...
  16 hours ago

• New UK Library Fits Within a Phone Booth

  
  INHABITAT — Authority: 730
  London is calling! Actually, it’s Westbury-sub-Mendip’s new 24-hour red phone box library! After witnessing their weekly mobile library disappear, this wee town in the south of England town wasn’t going to let their iconic phone booth be taken away as well. Conceived by a local resident as a way to save a bit of ...
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• Euclid Avenue, one year later

  
  Cuyahoga County Planning Commission Weblog — Authority: 434
  In the year since the Euclid Corridor project was completed and the HealthLine began operations, the improvements have helped to spur developments downtown, in Midtown, and in University Circle , despite the recession. Steven Litt assessed the projects effectiveness to date .
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• Crazy Cargo: 30 Steel Shipping Container Home Designs

  
  WebUrbanist — Authority: 647
  Steel shipping containers are the temporary homes of countless consumer items being transported all around the world. Items are packed into the cargo containers in their country of origin, then shipped to wherever they’re destined to be sold. Once they’re emptied at the appropriate port, many of these cargo ...
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• Kamms Corners streetscape update

  
  Cuyahoga County Planning Commission Weblog — Authority: 434
  As the Kamms Corners streetscape project continues, more businesses are opening in the commercial district along Lorain Avenue . Workers recently completed the projects second phase , and the Kamms Corners Development Corporation is seeking funds for the third and final phase.
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• An East-Sider in Surrey

  
  Price Tags — Authority: 421
  Mike Klassen, the acerbic blogger at citycaucus.com , was invited out to Surrey last week to speak at a public meeting on the future of a community known as St. Helen’s Park .  ( He blogged on the subject here , also providing a link to the grassroots community group looking to resist larger ...
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• José María Tomás: “nineteenth-century urban models, will not work.”

  
  World Landscape Architect — Authority: 139
  Barcelona reporter: Famous Valencian architect José María Tomás said “nineteenth-century urban models, will not work. Today, cities have other needs. We must create spaces to live, work and enjoy. The street is changing”. He made the statement at the close of a meeting of Architects and Planners, organized ...
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• The Stayton Starts Construction

  
  Fort Worthology — Authority: 128
  The Stayton, the new retirement condo project in the SoSeven mixed-use development, is now underway. Thanks to the re-opening of the Lancaster Avenue bridge, there’s a great view of the construction site (adjacent to the SoSeven townhomes, ArtHouse condos, and Residence Inn). When complete, the Stayton will ...
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• MAD Architects’ Urban Forest Skyscraper For China

  
  INHABITAT — Authority: 730
  Inspired by mountainous Chinese landscapes and the traditional villages built their hillsides, MAD Architects has unveiled plans to create a towering vertical Urban Forest. Designed for Chongqing, China, the projects consists of a stacked vertical forest set in the heart of the city, designed to bring more nature ...
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• Lancet Study: We Must Reduce Auto Dependency

  
  Worldchanging: Bright Green — Authority: 639
  WorldChanging Team: by Sarah Goodyear Lots of catching up to do after the holiday weekend. Heres a sampling of whats been coming in over the network:...
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• GREENCITYBLUELAKE: OPEN MINDS AND OPEN ACCESS: DESIGNS FOR BETTER INNERBELT BRIDGE

  
  ClevelandDesignCity — Authority: 144
  ClevelandBikes , the  Ohio City Bicycle Co-op ,  GreenCityBlueLake Institute , the Kent State Cleveland Urban Design Collaborative and others are developing a plan for a cycling and pedestrian lane on the proposed I-90 bridge, from Cleveland’s Tremont neighborhood to downtown Cleveland. So far, Ohio Department ...
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• St. Louis CityGarden, a 2.9-acre Sculpture Park, Fosters Social Interaction Downtown

  
  The Dirt — Authority: 492
  At the heart of St. Louis, CityGarden , a new 2.9-acre sculpture park designed by Nelson Byrd Woltz Landscape Architects and studio|durham architects , is revitalizing a formerly run-down part of downtown St. Louis through landscape and public art designed to foster social interaction. A combination of urban ...
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• Waterpleinen: Recreating Rain Reserviors as Dynamic Public Parks

  
  INHABITAT — Authority: 730
  For cities that are settled below sea level, dealing with copious amounts of rainfall year round can be a destructive challenge. But as the Royal Dutch Meteorological Institute predicts, Rotterdam has an even damper outlook – over the next century rainfall in the area is expected to increase by 5% with an ...
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• The right to safe transit

  
  Rebuilding Place in the Urban Space — Authority: 521
  In an earlier comment thread, Cavan reminds me that some people can justifiably feel uncomfortable on transit because of raucous people, inappropriate behavior, etc. While I dont think that justifies creating separate shuttle bus systems, I do think we need to address the problems better than we do. For example, I ...
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• "Parking, parking, parking" and "Driving, driving, driving"

  
  Rebuilding Place in the Urban Space — Authority: 521
  Urban scenes at eye level, Part Two, Jan Gehl, Close Encounters with Buildings For those of us who grew up watching the Brady Bunch on television, we remember the competition on the show between the middle and older sisters, Jan and Marcia, and Jans lament that everything was about Marcia -- " Marcia, Marcia, ...
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• Changing the land use development paradigm towards intensification: in the suburbs and in the center city

  
  Rebuilding Place in the Urban Space — Authority: 521
  One of the reasons for the most part I am writing a lot less is that I am more interested in writing "integrative" posts synthesizing a bunch of grand points and ideas, because the day to day stuff tends to illustrate meta-ideas and frameworks that people often fail to perceive--and I have a lot less time because I do ...
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• Its very very very hard, but sometimes you get quality urban infill

  
  Rebuilding Place in the Urban Space — Authority: 521
  14th and U Streets NW, circa 1950s, Scurlock Studios photo, National Museum of American History. Older intact commercial buildings at 14th and P Streets NW When I first started being involved in revitalization issues I had plenty to learn. At the outset--remember that it was not until 2003 that ...
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• Its all relative: conditions shaping road speeds and safe, comfortable places

  
  Rebuilding Place in the Urban Space — Authority: 521
  There is a paper out from the University of Connecticut on " Designing Roads that Guide Drivers to Choose Safer Speeds ;" by John N. Ivan, Norman W. Garrick, and Gilbert Hanson, University of Connecticut, Connecticut Transportation Institute; for Connecticut Department of Transportation; JHR 09-321 Project 04-6. ...
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