Browsing: Urbanism

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.

Disaster mapping, also known as crisis mapping, is a method used to evaluate, record, and communicate data regarding the location of a disastrous event as well as the distribution of its effects or potential effects.

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?

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.

Many of our daily actions are directly related to or dominated by technology. Even in many of our actions that are based on human nature, technology plays an important role, we all use technological stuff such as phones, laptops, tablets, or even smartwatches. So, how is technology changing our way to experience cities?

Sustainable solutions in urban design, transportation, energy, and water use include criteria such as creating a balance between the natural countryside and the urban environment.

As the urban population continues to grow at a rapid pace, city planning faces several pressing questions. The key challenges are housing, sufficient infrastructure, and availability of space- all of which increase the demand for resources.

Technology is hereby seen as the panacea for improving the effectiveness of our lives, but in the process, essential questions are often not asked: Do we want to live in such a technotopia? How do we want to live in 30 years?

We live in the Anthropocene age. In other words, we are in an age when humanity has become the most important factor that determines the functioning and physical structure of the planet.