Jane Jacobs on Neighborhoods in Action [VIDEO]
A great interview with the late Jane Jacobs, activist of healthy cities and author of the 1961 book The Death and Life of Great American Cities. In this video Neighborhoods in Action produced by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, she explains the importance of creating neighborhood hearts, noting, “A heart is not a disembodied thing…that you … Read more
Urban Design Divide: New Urbanism vs. Landscape Urbanism
Here in Europe, the practice of urbanism and urban planning is defined mostly by geographical context or particular qualities–such as the approach to cars, or the fact that for example, here in Catalonia, it is architects that are in charge of urbanism and planning, resulting in a design-based approach at all scales (building, neighborhood, city … Read more
GIVEAWAY: Share this, Win a Book!
It’s been a while since our last giveaway but we’re still celebrating the launch of our new program–help us get the word out and we’ll thank you with another contemporary jewel of urbanism literature, this time Manuel de Solà Morales’ A Matter of Things (English or Spanish edition). Click through to find out who won! … Read more
Vicente Guallart Appointed Director of Urbanism of Barcelona
In a recent trip to Columbia University in New York, the new mayor of Barcelona, Xavier Trias, promoted his mission to “Regenerate” Barcelona to an audience of architecture students. Regenerating; coincidentally it’s a term that our program uses to describe its approach to the practice of urbanism across intermediate landscapes, but how does the mayor … Read more
