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Zaha Hadid Architects Make Flood Protection Look Elegant in Hamburg

As urban planners grapple with the need for creative flood management systems in cities around the world, Zaha Hadid Architects provides an interesting example in Hamburg. Located along the ...

Desire Paths: When Design and the Needs of Users Diverge

These days, "user experience" tends to refer more to the digital realm than our physical environment, but it's no less relevant to roads and sidewalks than to websites and software. When creating ...

Universal Design: Creating Better Buildings & Cities for All

Conventional design only welcomes a certain type of person: the one arbitrarily deemed "normal." It’s easy for designers, or even the casual observer, to define the most typical user of a space ...

Yo-Yo Pedestrian Zones: What Makes Urban Walkability Flourish or Fail?

A bustling car-filled street by day and a 1,500-foot pedestrian promenade on weekend nights, Sai Yeung Choi Street South in the dense neighborhood of Mong Kok was the stage upon which urban life ...

Urban Rewilding: Reverse-Engineering Cities to Save Nature – And Ourselves

In an age of mass extinctions and climate chaos, can we reverse-engineer some aspects of our built environments to live in greater harmony with nature? Many of our cities are built on former ...

Dementia Villages: The Delicate Art of Designing to Deceive

You take a stroll down a sunny street, wave to the smiling vendor at the flower stall on the corner, chat with a friend by the fountain at the center of the town square and head back to your ...

(W)Ego House: Tetris-Like Hotel Reveals Clashing Dreams of City Residents

  One person’s ego-centric vision of how cities should adapt to their own particular individual needs encroaches upon the dreams of another, as revealed by MVRDV’s Tetris-like open-walled ...

3D Print the World: 12 Ways This Technology Will Soon Flourish in Cities

Ready or not, the 3D-printed future is coming, and the first examples are already arriving in cities around the world in the form of office buildings, small houses, public furniture, public art ...

Urban Human Habitats: 13 Compact Concepts for Growing Cities

  How will various cities around the world adapt to rapid population growth while maintaining quality of life and responding to their unique environments and cultural context? In some ...

Urban Superblocks: Barcelona Redesign to Reclaim Streets from Cars

Could ‘superblocks’ help Barcelona return to its late-19th-century vision of urban utopia, clearing out the snarled streets so mini neighborhood blocks can literally breathe? The rapidly ...

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