Browsing: Urbanism

Singapore, one of Asia’s most significant multi-cultural urban centers, is often referred to as the leading example of a smart city.

Today, health is associated with a wide range of fields. In addition to physical health, other aspects of health include mental, social, political, economic, and urban health.

Heat affects everyone. Due to the urban heat island effect, people living in cities are more at risk than those in suburban or rural areas.

If human-centric design can be a service – rather than a ‘standard’ – what other design approaches are there? Is there a difference between human-centric and human-centered?

Think about the last time you took a walk through the city. While you were trying to embrace the view in front, observing skyscrapers reaching for the sky, roads and transits making their way through, did a sense of curiosity ever grip you?

Today, climate change stands out as a serious threat that causes environmental and socio-economic problems worldwide. Especially cities with a large population density stand out as the regions that experience the effects of this threat most intensely.

The highly anticipated utopian project that raises question marks in everyone’s minds, The Line. For the first time, a publicly spoken documentary was broadcast through the mouths of those involved in the project. So how do they convey their excitement and questions?

The public, the planned object, and the planners: The essential idea of participatory urban design is to bring these three elements into a transparent and democratic process.

In this article, Tom attempt to open and widen the field of contemporary urbanism and discuss issues and potential fields of expertise that may become more relevant to urbanists (and consequently to urban planners and architects) in the future.

The United Arab Emirates is currently undertaking the development of multiple large-scale projects that will significantly impact the nation’s future and solidify its position as a leader in the global and regional arena.