Category: Urban Design Strategies

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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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The New Normal: Redefining Universal Design in Public Spaces

Who Designs? Who Uses? ‘A public space is a place that is open and accessible to the general public.’ This is the textbook definition of public space. In an urban space, the unbuilt environment is as important as its built counterpart and public space falls under this very bracket. The initiation

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urban design and urban planning
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Difference Between Urban Planning and Urban Design

The urban design process has faced criticism for the past 50 years about its definitions, guiding concepts, procedure, and interactions with other disciplines. Urban design initiatives frequently don’t turn out the way they were intended when they are implemented. Similarly, the connection between urban planning and urban design is frequently

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Stepping Into Our Backyard: Urbanization and Natural Ecosystem

We are moving ahead in this rapidly advancing world. As the population grows exponentially, so are the needs progressing. We have reached a stage where it is practically impossible to ignore the pace of development and the measures taken to keep up with it. As one new building lays itself

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Rejuvenating Public Spaces with Landscape Design

Landscape Design Landscape architecture is increasingly becoming an important discipline in the planning and design of many major cities around the world. To put it simply, landscape architecture involves the design and planning of outdoor areas. A good landscape design can provide social, environmental and aesthetic benefits to its users,

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Mobility crisis in cities around the world

Sprawl and the transportation The Urban growth story of developing nations regarding high-scale urbanization has been documented widely. The spurt in the growth of the urban cities accelerated the growth in the transportation requirements of the population. Not just transportation, the resource consumption patterns changed, and the requirements increased. The

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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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Integration of Rivers in Urban Development

Waterfront Development and the River Water is one of nature’s elements which is very much important for our survival. Our bodies are also 70% water, kids’ stuff-right? Why are we not respecting water as a resource knowing very well that fresh water is a finite resource and we are still

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