Background The rapid development of contemporary cities has led to a change in the functions or architectural functions of many urban areas. The city’s environment is more complex and flexible, local development needs are challenges that urban planners face. The emergence of three-dimensional cityscape helps designers solve this problem better. Three-dimensional cityscape combines landscape, business,…
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Within Richard’s blog he brings up the very interesting topic of Autonomous Vehicles and highlights how this is going to affect the lives of people, the city designers and the city itself. Having read Richard’s blog it got me thinking of a concept being developed by a branch of German company BMW that aims to…
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The author highlights some of the most significant contrasts that exist in Rio de Janeiro commonly abbreviated as Rio, which is also the second biggest city in Brazil. The two distinctions lie in two images that the city reflects the first being the glamorous and elegant beaches such as the Copacabana and the Sugar Loaf…
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Except for the live-work model Ling offers in her blog, the exhaustive choices that people can pick will also solve some problems in today’s urban renewal. The live-work mode is a combination of residential and work areas. It could save a lot of money and time for certain occupations, and also achieves the purpose of…
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Introduction The construction of new socialist countryside is a great project in China’s urban planning. Chinese government demolishing these decentralized natural villages and then build concentrated urbanization new communities with a certain population density. The new community shall be built along the transportation line. The residential buildings shall be more than five-storey commercial housing, supported…
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In February 2018 as part of our Cities and Culture module of our Urban Design course we embarked on a trip to the one of the most design orientated cities in the world Milan, Italy. During our time there we were to, within groups of 4, regenerate a relatively small plot of land that was…
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With the development of human society, the landscape changes along with the changes of aesthetic standard and sense of worth of human. So, modern landscape is quite different from historical landscape. Modern landscape is more focus on paths, patios, steps and even planters. The landscape designers always use certain materials such as brick and pottery….
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Autonomous vehicles will be a trend to improve infrastructure system. Richard mentioned how it work and give impacts on current infrastructure. Due to population growth and aging population, the demand and numbers of own cars might increase so Autonomous Vehicles might have impacts on reducing numbers of cars and car parking as well. So it…
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The cultural regeneration seems to have played a role in reaching the new status of a city. In 2000, Newcastle councils and Gateshead formed a partnership to achieve the common goal of ensuring a cultural regeneration to promote the region as a tourist destination. Recently, in spite of the loss of the European cultural Competition…
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Everything that any architect could need… Is already in natural forms in nature.                                                                                    …
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