10 Sprawl Repair and Regeneration Projects
In our fifth installment of case studies related to our program’s field of research and practice, we cover one of the hottest topics in urbanism today: retrofitting sprawl. The terminology varies, with “retrofitting suburbia” and “repairing sprawl” among the most popular labels, as urban planner Emily Talen explains in an interview conducted by our faculty … Read more
Friday Faves! 5 Things to Watch and Read
Here are this week’s Friday Faves: A Manifesto for Looseness – This lecture by Kazys Varnelis, director of the Network Architecture Lab at the Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation, challenges the notions of the smart city and addresses the threat of complexity in our lives at an urban scale. The talk … Read more
Friday Faves! 5 Things to Watch and Read
Blame the Architect – A series of lectures with an amusing tone yet a very serious subject matter: Are architects and urban planners to blame for urban violence? Professor Wouter Vanstiphout talks about the inextricable relationship between design and politics, thus design as politics. Organized by the chair of Design as Politics at the Delft … Read more
Friday Faves! 5 Things to Watch and Read
Here are this week’s Friday Faves… Share and enjoy! Google + Paris Develop the Best and Largest View of Google Earth – The Paris Center for Architecture and Urbanism has teamed up with Google to create an interactive 40-square-meter digital mapping of Paris–the largest of its kind according to Google–as it is expected to be … Read more
Friday Faves! 5 Things to Watch and Read
Are freeways doomed? – “The dirty secret of freeways is that they don’t reduce traffic, they create it. Ask any urban planner: Give people more roads, and more of them will drive.” Read about how some cities are tearing down highways and creating bold new public spaces. The Power of Quiet Encroachment – In this TEDxStellenbosch … Read more
Friday Faves! 5 Things to Watch and Read
This week in Friday Faves… Min Tent City, Mecca – This temporary tent city for 3 million people is quite possibly the largest ephemeral urban design in the world, erected each year to house Hajj pilgrims visiting Mecca during the last month of the lunar Islamic calendar. This spectacular feat of urbanism was featured in … 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
Methodology for the Regeneration of Residential Suburban Sprawl
Funding: Universitat Internacional de Catalunya Location: Barcelona Metropolitan Region, Catalunya, Spain Researchers: Universitat Internacional de Catalunya, Spain: Pere Vall–Casas (PI), Carmen Mendoza (PI), Marta Benages, Sandra Calero Arizona State University, USA: Julia Koschinsky Years of work: 2008 – The regeneration of residential suburban areas requires specific methodology alternative from that of the conventional compact city. … Read more
