Friday Faves! 5 Things to Watch and Read
This week in Friday Faves: Jan Gehl on the Past 40 Years of Urbanism – A 32-min interview with the famed Danish urban designer and his thoughts on the past and future of urbanism, and the importance of working at the people scale. via Planetizen Urbanized: An Interview with Gary Hustwit – We featured the … Read more
10 Waterfront Regeneration Projects Around the World
Whether it’s preserving cultural landscapes, regenerating informal settlements, retrofitting sprawl, designing waterfronts or transforming highways into civic axes, our program addresses these challenges with a unique methodology that encompasses practices from urban design to landscape architecture and works at a scale between neighborhood and region. In the spirit of these challenges and our program’s subject matter, we’re kicking off … Read more
Friday Faves! 5 Things to Watch and Read
This week’s Friday Faves…enjoy! Peripheral Landscapes – Architect Sarah Lorenze and Plasmatic’s video on how Mexico City’s informal development has redefined the city’s urban, social and economic limits. Manifest Destiny: A Guide to the Essential Indifference of American Suburban Housing – Another great entry and expressive visual commentary on suburbia from Places Design Observer Cities … Read more
Friday Faves! 5 Things to Watch and Read
This week in Friday Faves! TEDx talk with Chuck Marohn – Starting out with an interesting comparative between historical Spain and US, the executive director of Strong Towns, emphasizes the importance of returning roads (as opposed to streets) to towns for community and economic development. via DC Streetsblog Making a Middle Landscape – Particularly relevant … Read more
Retrofitting Suburbia: Article in Urban Design International
This fall, the directors of our masters program Pere Vall-Casas and Carmen Mendoza published an article together with colleague Julia Koschinsky of Arizona State University in the urbanism journal Urban Design International. Titled Retrofitting suburbia through pre-urban patterns: Introducing a European perspective, the article outlines a unique approach to the issue of ‘retrofitting suburbia’, drawing … Read more
Friday Faves! 5 Things to Watch and Read
In our new Friday Faves series, we’ll be serving up some of the latest and greatest urbanism goodies to watch and read. Here are this weeks picks! Urbanized, the new documentary on the design of cities, from the director of Helvetica and Objectified, Gary Hustwit. Yurbanism’s ABC’s of Urbanism covering a range of urban theories … Read more
Seminario Retos en la Cartografía del Paisaje
¿Como podemos cartografiar los valores intangibles del paisaje–es decir, aquellos que son emocionales, espirituales o culturales? Esta semana, investigadora de nuestro Laboratorio Área de Urbanismo, Marta Benages comparte las reflexiones al respecto que se dieron en este interesante seminario internacional organizado por el Observatori del Paisatge de Catalunya que tuvo lugar la semana pasada en … Read more
