Introduction The evolution of cities today has led to the development of dead edges. This is causing a reduction in the activity levels of the built environment. As a response, cities offset more development to make up for this, leading to city expansion, called urbanization. Urbanization may lead to by-products
With the growing telecommuting trend, more people rely on virtual spaces and digital modes of communication like video and web conferencing to socialize and interact online. Metaverse is a methodology of using the virtual and digital to enable a range of real-world-like capabilities to users in a 3-D immersive world.
The unprecedented COVID-19 health crisis has exposed the cities’ fragilities and the need for urgent responses facing global urban shock. In this sense, it is possible to mention two key aspects that required rapid transformation and adaptation: urban displacement and public space usage. For contexts in which this was possible,
What is Urban Design? The process of urban design is the process of developing cities, and it involves elements of architecture, engineering, landscape design, art, and science. Here are some common terms used in urban design. Urban Design Terminology 1. Accessibility The ease with which locations can be reached. People
When we think of regeneration, we think of mending or resurrecting something from the ground up, rather than simply making it environmentally friendly. As a result, Regenerative Design is founded on the concept of designing a structure that reflects the healing aspects of nature in order to have a good
Sustainable Cities The development of the term Urban design took place in 1953 from the earlier known term ‘Civic Design’, which originated in the 1900s. The term emerges from the Latin word ‘urbs’, which means a city. The concept focuses on creating solutions while maintaining a relationship with the public
New Urbanism seeks a reversion to pre-war neighborhoods that were designed to be at the human-scale, highly walkable, offer community opportunities for ample engagement, and follow traditional neighborhood development patterns. This article will aim to assess the successes and shortcomings of three realized New Urbanist projects. While these projects vary
Urban Design is a hybrid discipline with its main principles fundamentally rooted in public and socio-economic welfare through an appropriate physical design of the environment. Given some pondering on the terminological spectrum of urban design, while terms like public realm, walkability, activity node, and legibility steal the limelight more frequently,
At CultureHouse, we create spaces that defy norms. We often describe our community pop-ups as indoor public parks, communal living rooms, and third spaces. We do this because there is no clear parallel to existing infrastructure that exactly matches what our pop-ups encompass. In essence, our spaces are living examples
This year would be Jane Jacob’s 100th birthday, and what better to celebrate the memory of this incredible woman than walking along the very streets she helped fight to protect in New York City. This champion of everyday social life in public space and her de facto anthropological observations of
