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Urban designers, people who can think at the scale of a city, are in high demand right now, a new Fast Company analysis shows ...
Yet if the design of an urban development ignores the intrinsic scale of a place, the results are bound to become detrimental and can create conflicts.
Richard Florida–an urban design professor at the University of Toronto, the founding editor of CityLab, and Co.Design contributor–argues that the modern complexities of racial inequality in ...
Urban Design After the Pandemic. ... And as Toronto activist Gil Meslin demonstrates, it even happened in suburban Toronto at a smaller scale. Garbage on sidewalks in New York City.
Lessons in human-scale urban design . Dave LeBlanc. Greenville, s.c. Special to The Globe and Mail. Published October 30, 2019. This article was published more than 5 years ago.
Today’s urbanism emphasizes many core beliefs that Jacobs espoused: “eyes on the street”, the messy joy of urban complexity, and the need for social interaction through human-scale urban design. Her ...
The winners of Calgary's seventh biennial Mayor's Urban Design Awards (MUDA) were announced Wednesday night, celebrating architecture and design that contributes to the well-being of residents and ...
Baron Haussmann's urban renovations under Napoleon III in the 1850s and 1860s gave the City of Light a modern sewage system, beautiful suburban parks, and a network of train stations.