First of all, thank you David for your interest and feedback about this theme. The aim of my blog post is to give a brief presentation of three cities that were built from the scratch and that are examples of different concepts and theories of urban design and planning during the last century. There are…
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Runyu in her blog discusses the importance  Urban Green Spaces can have on our lives. Using Newcastle as an example she discusses the multiple different ways in which these greenspaces positively affect our lives from; stress relief, to health benefits, to education. Following on from Runyu’s blog I’d like to briefly discuss a similar topic…
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In this piece Yilan again discusses a very important topic of urban design in street furniture. Having read her blog and agreeing with all her points it lead me to think about some of the work I carried out while with Sunderland City Council regarding the decluttering of streets and creating of way-finding techniques. While…
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Within her piece Yilan discusses the success story that is Amsterdam’s world-renowned cycle network and exactly what the city planners have developed and created within legislation and policy to achieve such a well working functional system. However, having been to Amsterdam a number of times now, the first being with my undergraduate urban planning course,…
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In his blog, Fabian looks at three case studies of modern cities which have been designed and built effectively from scratch in the last 60 years. I think Fabian has done a good job at choosing interesting case studies and finding some good information on them. Given the title of Fabian’s post however, it would’ve…
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In Voca’s blog she looks at the Newcastle Central Development Plan from 1962 during the era of the famous Newcastle City Council Chairman T Dan Smith. The proposals (sometimes referred to as the ‘vertical city’ were highly ambitious and only partially realised. Voca does a good job of briefly explaining the key elements and examines…
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In Yilan’s blog she talks about the effect of cultural regeneration on the redevelopment of Newcastle. Yilan had clearly done a lot of research into the merits of cultural redevelopment and how the process took hold in Newcastle and Gateshead but it would’ve been good to have seen some of her own thoughts on how…
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In Jack’s blog he wrote about his co-design exercise, which was oriented around understanding the house typologies that participants would like to see in their cohousing scheme, including their type and schedule of accommodation (rooms). Jack did a good job of explaining the process of his exercise and explained the results but I would’ve been…
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Urban regeneration is a key aspect of urban design and is often used to refer to regeneration projects in cities or other large settlements and urban areas. One aspect that is sometimes overlooked is the regeneration of smaller towns which can be seen to differ from urban regeneration in cities in a number of ways….
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Tomonaga’s blog shows the gap space between buildings in high density city. Those stress the differences between stages in the process of urban development. Case study A five-story townhouse in Tokyo, Japan, designed and built by the famous Japanese architect Ryue Nishizawa. It is located in Tokyo’s intensive business district. It is a place where…
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