The concept behind walking We can say without thinking too much, that cities were, over time, more designed for motorized transport than for pedestrians. And even today, governments are more interested in investing in road infrastructure than in encouraging people to walk or use alternative modes of transportation. Bringing about
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
After Superstorm Sandy in 2012, many people wrote about “coastal resilience”—which often meant, “let’s move people away from coasts because they might be drowned in a hurricane.” (Just google “superstorm sandy” + buyout to find a few examples of this idea.) This theory makes sense if flooding only happens in
The Fontanar del Río Zonal Park located in the town of Suba, promotes balance and territorial equity by increasing the offer of active and passive recreation of the city, avoids environmental degradation, supporting equipment provisioning programs and comprehensive improvement, and favours the identity, appropriation and participation of the population in
The primary aim for Fjordporten is to combine effective traffic logistics with attractive internal and external urban spaces. This is obtained by high architectural quality and streamlined transfers between the various means of transport. A clear architectural identity and a thorough sustainability profile define the project’s end result. Fjordporten
A major threat to public health, air pollution contributes to the death of over 9,000 Londoners a year. With Lambeth, one of the most polluted London councils, Gehl initiated, managed and piloted ‘Thrive Zones’ that both reduce people’s exposure to poor air quality and invite to areas of better air
The proposal envisions the threshold between the built urban fabric and the natural environment at the water’s edge. It focuses on the development of public space at the water’s edge, and tries to transform that space into a new interface that can be experienced as a valued and essential part
This thesis uses a case study approach at the proposed Transit Hub for the City of Kitchener to focus on opportunities for a high quality public space/square to better integrate a new LRT line and a new GO/VIA rail station into the surrounding city. The conceptual framework of this thesis
Thesis Title: Instagramable Transit Name: Amira Arisya Program: Landscape Architecture Location: Malasia University: International Islamic University
The thesis analyzes factors that hinder the communication of artists and the public and aims to conclude a way by which communication may be improved. It studies artists aiming to work in the public realm and their work. The other aspect focuses on the understanding of a public space which
