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  • New design guidance launched to transform the future of play

    Play England, the Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF) and the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) have launched, for the first time in the England, detailed guidance for the design of children’s play spaces.
    Free copies of the guide can be ordered by calling (+44) 0845 60 222 60 or click here

    SOURCE: Landscape [...]

  • ‘Superblocks add to green space’ - The Jakarta Post

    Public parks within superblocks run by private developers can alleviate the lack of green public space and help urban revitalization, an expert said Friday.
    “The city administration needs to revitalize the city but doesn’t have the cash. So permitting private superblocks is a part of urban revitalization,” University of Indonesia economist Faisal Basri said at the [...]

  • London offers its memorial to the 52 victims of 7/7 terrorism - Times Online

    Ben Hoyle of the Times looks at the newly unvealed design for the 7/7 memorial
    The design unveiled yesterday by the architects Carmody Groarke is on a more human scale than the American and Spanish projects. It consists of 52 steel columns, one for each innocent life lost, arranged in a clearing at the southeast [...]

  • Auckland a city in need of ambition - NZ Herald

    Auckland is failing to fulfil its potential and needs to be bidding for ambitious projects such as the 2016 Commonwealth Games, says Ludo Campbell-Reid, the city council’s urban design champion.
    Campbell-Reid, who was brought to Auckland two years ago by then mayor Dick Hubbard to give the city a cohesive design framework, has spent a month [...]

  • Lower Don Lands project receives sustainable development award

    Waterfront Toronto, alongside Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates, has been honoured for the sustainable design of its Lower Don Lands project.
    The new development, one aspect of Waterfront Toronto’s 8000-hectare central waterfront transformation, recently received the 2008 Royal Architecture Institute of Canada’s (RAIC) Sustainable Development Award.
    The award is designed to recognize the role urban design and architectural [...]

  • Envisioning a world of $200-a-barrel oil - Los Angeles Times

    “Throughout our history, we have grown on the assumption that energy costs would be low,” said Michael Woo, a former Los Angeles city councilman and a current member of the city Planning Commission. “Now that those assumptions are shifting, it changes assumptions about housing, cars and how cities grow.”
    Push prices up fast enough, he said, [...]

  • The Best U.S. Cities, by Design

    The Best U.S. Cities, by DesignArchitectural firm RMJM Hillier weighed sustainability, awards, and both expert and residents’ opinions in its list of top 10 U.S. cities for designSee the BUSINESS WEEK SLIDESHOW OF top 10 US DESIGN cities
    SOURCE: Business Week – The Best U.S. Cities, by Design.

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