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 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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In the post, Tomo has introduced us the vertical garden city in Tokyo. He mentions that sustainability has become a significant factor applied in urban design. In order to develop the city as a sustainable city, Tokyo government has tried to design the city as a green city first. However, due to the large population…
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In his post ‘Health & Well being in Urban Design’, Shijie talks about many of the effects that Urban Design can have on our mental and physical well being. Whilst I agree with what Shijie has said in his post. I would add an extra dimension to this and talk about the importance of security…
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Runyu has discussed on analyzing sustainable urban transport development in Chinese cities. She pointed out that China has partly ignored environment issues in past decades under its rapid development. Nowadays, people are suffering from the heavy traffic issue and air pollution problems, that especially in big cities. Within the urbanisation process, cities in China have…
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In his blog, “Compact Form: The Battle Against The Car”,  Tommy reflects upon the car-oriented design of many modern cities and how we ought to go about creating new infrastructure for sustainable transport, phasing the car out of cities with a particular focus on density and urban form. I agree with Tommy in his post…
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