Friday Faves! 5 Things To Watch and Read
This week in Friday Faves… MVRDV – Almere Oosterwold – MVRDV proposes this development strategy for Almere Oosterwold, titled ‘Estate for Initiatives’ a Dutch urban planning scheme that steps away from governmental dictate and invites organic urban growth where inhabitants create their own neighbourhoods including public green, urban agriculture and roads. Is DIY urbanism possible? … Read more
Urban Planning for Dummies
Given its more generalized appeal, it’s not surprising that architecture has its own tome in the popular Dummies reference series…but urban planning? ‘Tis true. As Planetizen reports today, the release of Urban Planning for Dummies next month “is a sure sign that planning is entering the mainstream consciousness.” In Planetizen’s interview with the author, a … Read more
Today: Lecture by Pierre Bélanger at IaaC
Today at 7pm at the Advanced Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia, landscape architect and associate professor at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design, Pierre Bélanger will be sharing his academic research and public work which focuses on the convergence of urbanism, landscape and ecology in the interrelated fields of planning, design and engineering. … Read more
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Friday Faves! 5 Things to Watch and Read
This week in Friday Faves… Interview with urbanist Manuel de Solà-Morales – A homage to one of our favorite architects and urban planners, Manuel de Solà-Morales, who sadly passed away just a few days ago. For those of you who speak or understand Catalán, here is an interview with him last year in which he … 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: Occupy: The Day After – Design Observer Places analyzes how the recent evictions and violent repressions of Occupy Wall Street protestors at university campuses in California raise questions as to the nature of what we consider, or how we define public space. Traffic in Frenetic HCMC, Vietnam – Check … Read more
