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Parks Matter More Than Ever During a Time of Sickness – Something Frederick Law Olmsted Understood in the 19th Century
The COVID-19 pandemic has altered humans’ relationship with natural landscapes in ways that may be long-lasting. One of its most direct effects on people’s daily lives is reduced access to public parks.
The Importance of a Chill Area in the Office
This article explores the importance of a chill area in the office.
Algorithms Are Designing Better Buildings
More recently, new tools have begun to combine this kind of information with algorithms to automate and optimise aspects of the building process. This ranges from interpreting regulations and providing calculations for structural evaluations to making procurement more precise.
Living Building Ideas Take Root in Corporate Offices
Here are a few corporate offices that either achieved a full LBC or obtained Petals in the name of building a brighter future.
Dream Homes: Architecture and Popular Imagination
The idea of architecture, as a constructive kind of daydreaming, remains strikingly potent in fiction and pop culture. By extension, the idea of architects themselves as feverishly creative individuals, conjuring new worlds into being, remains (sometimes quite literally) seductive.
Buildings Have Their Own Microbiomes – We’re Striving to Make Them Healthy Places
The question for our profession now is whether and how the 100-year viral pandemic will change architectural design and building operations.
After Coronavirus: How Seasonal Migration and Empty Centres Might Change Our Cities
The changes to urban space brought by the coronavirus have many people asking what the post-pandemic city might look like.
Build Me Up: How Architecture Can Affect Emotions
How does architecture affect our emotions and what kind of design interventions can be made to help us survive the chaos of daily life?
No Need To Give Up on Crowded Cities - We Can Make Density So Much Better
The more immediate need is to focus on improving conditions in our major cities. Our smaller towns matter, but we can’t neglect the urgent need to get better at doing the bigger ones right.
How Architect Yona Friedman Used Math to Design Utopian Cities of the Future
Friedman left us with a lot to remember. Some obituaries commemorated his pioneering work — some of it with UNESCO — on self-sufficiency, empowerment and do-it-yourself architecture. Others have restated the influence his emblematic “Spatial City”
Is Your City Making you Fat? How Urban Planning Can Address the Obesity Epidemic
Researchers call cities that promote sedentary lifestyles and poor diet obesogenic. As a researcher focusing on urban issues, I am encouraged to see city planners paying increasing attention to helping residents lead healthy lifestyles.
'Blue' Space: Access to Water Features Can Boost City Dwellers' Mental Health
What if you’re in one of the 49 countries in the world, or 27 American states, that are landlocked with no ocean shore? For natural capital to deliver health benefits to people, it needs to be right next to them, integrated into the everyday fabric of their world.
The Experiences of People with Disabilities Show We Need a New Understanding of Urban Safety
The experiences of people with disabilities offer important insights into the complexities of urban safety, because of the varied encounters with space that impairment can bring. Their experiences show that safety is a fluid concept.
Temporary Urban Solutions Help Us Deal With Crisis - And Can Lead To Radical Shifts in City Space
Our research into the temporary use of land and buildings shows the ways in which short-term development is deployed during times of crisis.
10 Tips for Controlling Erosion on Your Construction Site
It's possible to effectively control erosion on most construction sites. Read on to discover the best preservation techniques.
If More of Us Work From Home After Coronavirus, We'll Need to Rethink City Planning
If, as some expect, people are likely to work from home more often after the pandemic, what will this mean for infrastructure planning? Will cities still need all the multibillion-dollar road, public transport, telecommunications and energy projects, including some already in the pipeline?
People Love the Idea of 20-Minute Neighborhoods. So, Why Isn't it Top of the Agenda?
People generally loved the thought that most (not all) of the things needed for a good life could be within a 20-minute public transport trip, bike ride or walk from home.
How to Build More Resilient Cities Post-Coronavirus
As Canadian cities recover and rebuild their economies post-pandemic, there will be increasing need to deliver social and community planning measures to address widening income inequalities.
Cities Are at the Centre of the Coronavirus Pandemic - Understanding This Can Help Build A Sustainable Equal Future
We can seize this opportunity to improve how we build, organise and use cities. To do this, though, we need to look more closely at the urban spread of coronavirus to understand its impact on existing inequalities.