Tag: Design
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Developing the Inclusive City Centre: Frankfurt am Main
We are off on another adventure in our Frankfurt Urban Development series. After discussing the cycling infrastructure, car centered streets and the car saturated inner city, we now pick up the tracks exactly where we halted: the Berliner Straβe. Car still the status symbol? As said, Frankfurt is a perfect example of how post-war urban…
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Building Inclusive Streets: Reshaping the Schlossstrasse, Frankfurt
Streets exist in many forms. From large, straight and open, to small, winding and secluded. Streets have different meanings to different people. For one it might be the way to work, for the other a place to hang out. Especially in cities, streets are multidimensional, multifunctional and multi-interpretable. Streets are there for movement, place making…
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Shoe Box Living in Micro-Apartments: A Response to Housing Shortages
Micro Apartments are a new trend in urban housing. Ryan Bellinson tells us more about living in a shoebox, or micro apartment.
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Nothing Left to Chance: Chicago’s Millennium Park
Martijn Sargentini explores the ostentatious design and experience of Millennium Park in Chicago.
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Building Cultural Symbols: Battling for Creative Status
Isabella Rossen considers the implications of the Taipei Performing Arts Centre (TPAC) and Hong Kong’s Museum M+ on local art and culture.
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Konza Technology City: Between Vision and Reality
Why are New Towns being developed and how feasible is their construction really? Author Eline Splinter examines these questions by taking a closer look at the plans for Konza Technology City, Kenya. .
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Theme Park City Zaandam
Zaandam’s city centre has changed remarkably. Dionne Poulussen defends the contested project and stresses Zaandam’s appeal being urban yet affordable.
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Brand Old Skopje
Skopje recently invested large sums of money in rebranding the city. Tena Prelec critically discusses the political purposes underlying the project.
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The Walking Dead: Rethinking the Amsterdam Canal
In this article, architect Louise de Hullu and urban sociologist Leon van Keulen investigate new possibilities for a walkable Amsterdam canal.
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Vancouver: Victim of Its Own Success
Bas van Rossum and Jate Bleeker report on how Vancouver’s affordability crisis has made the city a victim of its own success.