Urbanism and studies of place

Urbanism and studies of place

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Charlotte Puts Play Back Into Public Spaces
Charlotte Puts Play Back Into Public Spaces
The city won three grants to create innovative places to play as part of KaBOOM!'s Play Everywhere Challenge.
·nextcity.org·
Charlotte Puts Play Back Into Public Spaces
What Is Globalism?
What Is Globalism?
I was talking with someone at dinner last night and he asked me what globalism was. I responded with four key elements: Borderless World: A belief in the ever freer movement of goods, services, cap…
·urbanophile.com·
What Is Globalism?
Why Housing Policy Should Be Health Policy
Why Housing Policy Should Be Health Policy
The features of urban decay can have a powerful effect on the overall wellness of a community. But these health impacts are often left relatively unexamined.
·citylab.com·
Why Housing Policy Should Be Health Policy
246- Usonia 1 - 99% Invisible
246- Usonia 1 - 99% Invisible
Frank Lloyd Wright was a bombastic character that ultimately changed the field of architecture, and not just through his big, famous buildings. Before designing many of his most well-known works, Wright created a small and inexpensive yet beautiful hou...
·pca.st·
246- Usonia 1 - 99% Invisible
Making a Better City Out of 'Model City'
Making a Better City Out of 'Model City'
In New Haven, a student-driven signage project and a government-led redevelopment take different approaches to addressing mistakes made decades ago.
·citylab.com·
Making a Better City Out of 'Model City'
Infrastructure as Permaculture | Sustainable Cities Collective
Infrastructure as Permaculture | Sustainable Cities Collective
(render, infrastructure, ecology, permaculture) The majority of the developed, American landscape has been crafted around automotive transport. As auto technology matured, increasing amounts of resources and area have been devoted to expanding and solidifying our road network.
·sustainablecitiescollective.com·
Infrastructure as Permaculture | Sustainable Cities Collective
An Introduction to Placemaking | Sustainable Cities Collective
An Introduction to Placemaking | Sustainable Cities Collective
Public space is more than just a pleasant amenity in our towns and cities, it is an important connection between our homes, businesses, institutions, and the rest of the world. It’s where we bump into each other and wave hello.
·sustainablecitiescollective.com·
An Introduction to Placemaking | Sustainable Cities Collective
Is This a Way Forward for Urban Farming?
Is This a Way Forward for Urban Farming?
Pulling in community members and a network of local nonprofits, Phoenix's "Spaces of Opportunity" is an attempt to make urban farming something more than a catchphrase.
·planetizen.com·
Is This a Way Forward for Urban Farming?
The Trifecta: Urbanism, architecture, and nature
The Trifecta: Urbanism, architecture, and nature
We often blog on the benefits of nature integrated into urbanism and wellbeing outcomes of walkability. The real trifecta is when walkable urbanism, human-scale architecture, and nature come togeth...
·placemakers.com·
The Trifecta: Urbanism, architecture, and nature
A Community Planning Process—Even a Good One—Is Not Enough
A Community Planning Process—Even a Good One—Is Not Enough
Simply inviting residents to participate in design charrettes or a community planning process does not mitigate the significant loss they feel as they witness the physical destruction of their homes and lived history.
·planetizen.com·
A Community Planning Process—Even a Good One—Is Not Enough
The Brooklynization of Brooklyn
The Brooklynization of Brooklyn
The New Brooklyn: What It Takes to Bring a City Back by Kay Hymowitz My City Journal colleague Kay Hymowitz has written a number of great articles on Brooklyn, the borough that is her home. This in…
·urbanophile.com·
The Brooklynization of Brooklyn
Third Space First
Third Space First
The quickly growing number of third spaces is good news for both the social and the urban fabrics.
·planetizen.com·
Third Space First
The Future of Cities
The Future of Cities
Collaborating with a number of different people from all over the place, filmmaker Oscar Boyson went out into the world and came back with this excellent 18-minute video on the future of cities. Among the cities profil
·kottke.org·
The Future of Cities