Posts on Urban Design (+ see introduction to urban design)
Thank you to FOLAR for holding a seminar on the landscape architecture of Britain’s New Towns. The above video, which was my contribution to the event, celebrates the contributions of the Four Landscape Knights (Sir Patrick Abercrombie, Sir Frederick Gibberd, Sir …
The knights of landscape architecture who planned the British New Towns Read more »
Beijing is planning a network of “ventilation corridors” to promote air flow and blow smpg away. Five main corridors will be 800 m wide and minor ones will be 80 m wide according to Wang Fei, deputy head of Beijing’s …
Beijing tackles air pollution by shifting the muck around. Read more »
James Corner was born in Preston and began his study of landscape architecture at Manchester Metropolitan University in the UK. The Time Magazine interview with Corner was published in 2012 under the title: Game Changer: James Corner, Urban Dreamscaper. Corner defines landscape …
James Corner interview: the High Line and Intimate Immensity Read more »
More London is an office development on the south bank of the River Thames between London Bridge and Tower Bridge. The brief given to the landscape architects, in 1998, was to create a unique place with both an individual character …
More London urban design by Townshend landscape architects Read more »
The Guardian reported (on 20th November 2015) that ‘The City of London Corporation, local authority of the Square Mile, is to close off the whole of the famous yet famously inhospitable Bank junction to all motor vehicles except buses, starting …
Bank Junction to be pedestrianised with a Democratic Allocation of Street Space DASS Read more »
Richard J Williams (born in Washington DC and Professor of Contemporary Visual Cultures at Edinburgh University College of Art) is right about the redevelopment of Edinburgh’s Waterfront . He wrote in the prestigious Foreign Policy magazine that ‘It starts promisingly …
Edinburgh’s Waterfront Redevelopment – the need for landscape urbanism Read more »
Congratulations to Spacehub on being appointed as landscape architects for Ebbsfleet Garden City. I hope they will be able to follow the landscape urbanism principle, that urban design should be led by landscape architects. A possible problem with this is …
Landscape architects appointed for Ebbsfleet Garden City in Kent Read more »
Demographia have an interesting website. which is an annual world-wide listing of urban areas by Largest Urban Areas in the World, Urban Areas by Geography (Including Selected under 500,000 Population), Urban Areas by Land Area (Urban Footprint) 84 Urban Areas by Urban …
Edwin and Joy Hoag, in a 1977 book, identified the Masters of Modern Architecture as Frank Lloyd Wright, Le Corbusier, Mies van der Rohe and Walter Gropius. Their relationship with landscape architecture deserves more attention than it normally receives. Thinking …
The landscape architecture of Le Corbusier and the other Pioneer Modern Masters Read more »
Of the four ‘masters of modern architecture’ (Walter Gropius, Frank Lloyd Wright, Le Corbusier, Mies van der Rohe) Corb was the most interested in the integration of architecture and landscape. His design for Chandigarh’s Capitol Complex is a major example …
Chandigarh 2 (of 4): The landscape architecture of Le Corbusier’s Capitol Complex Read more »
