Category: Contemporary Urbanism

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The Future of Urban Design: Trends and Challenges

The field of urban design is always developing with the goal of creating and enhancing our cities’ built environments. In the past, urban design frequently concentrated on the city’s physical features, such its architecture and infrastructure. But as our cities expand and transform, the problems facing urban planners have grown

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Ranking of Indian cities based on Living Index

1. Introduction Close to 55 percent of the world population live in urban settlements. By 2045, the urban population is expected to increase 1.5 times to 6 billion, adding 2 billion more residents. The swift pace of urban expansion brings the promise of immense economic growth. It is estimated that

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Pocket Parks in Concrete Jungles

Idea behind Pocket Parks Cities are growing at an alarming rate, especially in major metropolitan areas. Today’s world has created a stereotypical lifestyle that doesn’t consider the need to rest and resume. The machines that we humans have become are a product of the manufactured development that’s being engaged presently.

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How are Gentrification and Displacement Changing our cities?

Background The post-World War II era set into motion a series of urban developments that paved the way for our modern-day cities and whose effects, both constructive and detrimental, we continue to experience to this day.  One of these developments relates to demographic flows in and out of the inner

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Healthy Veins of the City: Safe and Sustainable Streets

Environmental Anatomy To understand the composition of the urban environment, it is necessary to compare it with similar organisms, such as the human body. The urban spaces of a city are connected, establishing the hypothesized concept of the Skeleton of the City, these urban spaces are designed under different regulations

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Spatial expansion of cities

Cities will be home to 2.5 billion new residents by 2050.Today, 55% of the world’s population lives in urban areas, a proportion that is expected to increase to 68% by 2050. Projections show that the overall growth of the world’s population could add another 2.5 billion people to urban areas

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Top Green, Innovative and Colorful Cities

Introduction A sustainable city addresses social, economic and environmental concerns. Their creation is led through the inclusion of eco-friendly programs and initiatives that create environmentally conscious, physical alternatives to city infrastructure. This article is divided into three sections. The first section highlights 3 cities that are green and have well

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Tactical Urbanism: Antecedents and contemporary applications

Designing cities for people, not cars, is the motivation behind many Tactical Urbanism projects. And due to the main trends in urbanism in recent decades, we are currently evolving toward a more human-centered idea of urban planning. What is Tactical Urbanism? Popularized in the 21st century, Tactical Urbanism can be

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