Over the past two years with the Global Financial Crisis hit nearly every nation across the globe and as a result landscape architects where laid off in large numbers. This was hardest felt in the USA due to lack of work and collapse of the home building market.
Governments from USA, UK, Canada, Australia, China and [...]
New Civil Engineer reports
Consultant Buro Happold, working as part of an international design team headed by the Milan-based practice of Cino Zucchi Architects and One Works, has helped deliver an innovative masterplan unveiled by its client, the City of Helsinki’s Planning Department
read the full article at New Civil Engineer - Helsinki masterplan unveiled
The News reports
All mega cities were deeply connected with their hinterland and until we see Karachi in relation to its hinterland, we won’t be able to solve many of its problems, said Chairman, Department of Architecture and Planning, NED University of Engineering and Technology, Dr Noman Ahmed.
Read Dr Ahmed’s full presentation at the [SOURCE: The [...]
Barcelona reporter:
Famous Valencian architect José María Tomás said “nineteenth-century urban models, will not work.
Today, cities have other needs. We must create spaces to live, work and enjoy. The street is changing”. He made the statement at the close of a meeting of Architects and Planners, organized by the Forum Mediterranean House, at which experts have [...]
Times of India reports
The proposed new urbanization commission and its exciting range of reforms is set to herald urban development in the state in the coming months. There could be simultaneous amendments to the Town and Country Planning Act.
In the draft urban development policy released by the government recently, one of the most important [...]
An article in China Daily today reports that over the next 15 to 20 years there will be an influx of 300 million people into cities across China. This will create 1 trillion yauan in annual investment in infrastructure and facilities across China. The rate of urbanisation will be 1% per year. This urbanisation is [...]
PerthNow reports
PERTH should grow to more than three million people by 2050, Richard Weller, a professor of landscape architecture at WA University, says.
The author of Boomtown 2050 – Scenarios for a Rapidly Growing City believes Perth still has the opportunity to plan for its expected population surge and use the energy of growth to make [...]
New Virginia Rules Target Cul-de-Sacs – washingtonpost.com
Virginia is taking aim at one of the most enduring symbols of suburbia: the cul-de-sac.
Read the SOURCE: washingtonpost.com – New Virginia Rules Target Cul-de-Sacs for more information on why Virginia is taking aim at cul-de-sacs
[ February 9, 2009,CST; 6:00 pm to 10:00 pm. ] Planning, Ecology and the Emergence of Landscape
6pm – Lecture Hall, Architecture Association – 36 Bedford Square London
