Biophilic Cities’ Post

Join us on Monday, November 4 for Architecture and Activism: Axel Timm. The practice of our collective raumlaborberlin refers very much to Lefebvre´s quote “Space is a product of (social) interaction." Thus our approach to the city and towards architecture is not the built space or the building of space in particular but rather the conception, the perception – the inhabiting of it. Within our approach with a focus on public or semi public space - we work at the intersection of architecture, city planning, art and urban intervention. In our work we address the city and urban renewal as a process connected to preferably all users of those spaces. For more event information: https://myumi.ch/egqGn

What is adaptive design for urban futures? Are you interested in the city as tangle of systems and flows? What do you think is the connection among nature, technology and culture? How can we create real smart cities? Trailer for episode 288 - Interview with Dan Hill, the Director of the Melbourne School of Design (Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning) at the University of Melbourne. We talk about his vision for the future of cities, hope and optimism, engineering and design, scale of cities, and many more. Find out more in the episode - coming out on Thursday! #adaptivedesign #urbanism

Just published: a new blog post about housing’s critical position for the future of cities In the post, Jason Montgomery discusses his recent Architecture_MPS article 'Addressing urban social and spatial stratification: testing the potential for integration of public housing', which explores vital questions surrounding the survival of public housing in New York City. Read all about it: https://ow.ly/NGBo50SUG6N

The Digital Urban Form Models for a Strengthened Urban Planning Practice project has been granted funding from Formas, a Swedish Research Council for Sustainable Development and the strategic innovation programme Smart Built Environment. The project includes research groups from #KTH Architecture and Chalmers University of Technology and six municipalities at the forefront of further developing their work with digital urban form analyses. The participating municipalities are Eskilstuna kommun, Göteborgs Stad, Norrköpings kommun, Stockholms stad, Uppsala kommun and Östersunds kommun. Ann Legeby is responsible for the project at KTH Royal Institute of Technology. Please read more: https://lnkd.in/d3hb9ye4 #kthresearch #urbanplanning #equalcommunitybuilding #urbanplanningpractice

How can cities benefit from systems thinking? Are you interested in the city as tangle of systems and flows? What do you think is the connection among nature, technology and culture? How can we create real smart cities? Trailer for episode 288 - Interview with Dan Hill, the Director of the Melbourne School of Design (Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning) at the University of Melbourne. We talk about his vision for the future of cities, hope and optimism, engineering and design, scale of cities, and many more. Find out more in the episode - coming out on Thursday! #systemsthinking #urbanism

If you think it’s time to start getting disaster recovery right, then get along to the launch of HowWeSurvive - an extraordinary brains trust of compassionate researchers dedicated to putting communities first after a disaster.

Urban regimes are not shaped just within the city, they are multidimensional. We often focus on federal influence, but states are strong actors too. States don’t just set the urban policy framework, they constantly shape local policies dynamically in many ways. This paper focuses on how Nashville’s Inclusionary Housing policy changed since it was first proposed and why it became what it did. One big takeaway from this study for me as someone working on implementation evaluation is to focus on the factors that contribute to a policy’s success or failure, not just evaluate the end result. Working on this paper also exposed me to some interesting ideas about how we define “mandatory” and “voluntary” inclusionary housing policies. Housing research often says “Inclusionary housing is not a silver bullet” ( no one policy is!). In Nashville’s case, I found it also may not be the best first arrow to launch. #statepreemption #inclusionaryhousing #Nashville

Employee-owned architectural practice Anderson Bell + Christie has completed a two-year Knowledge Transfer Partnership with the University of Strathclyde, funded by Innovate UK.

City issues: combining architecture, sustainability and gender Join the dialogs and debates in Bogotá on November 13 as we delve into themes such as how to envision future cities, public policies in favor of health and equity, and if we can achieve sustainability in architecture and our built environments. It’s my pleasure to participate in this, the 3rd Congress of Architecture, Gender and Sustainability. https://lnkd.in/dF29bhYW

In this article for the American Planning Association, Patty Folan encourages people to consider the local market and see whether zoning reform, phased development, or pop-ups can make implementing transit-oriented development a reality. Folan is a visiting associate professor of landscape architecture in the Fay Jones School of Architecture and Design at the University of Arkansas. Find out more about her seven ways to rethink transit-oriented development (TOD) in slow-growth areas: https://lnkd.in/gU5KtqXu