Tag: Urban design
Planning for Children & Young People Award
Nominations are open to receive the inaugural Planning for Children & Young People Award.
Interview: Callum Fraser
Finding a balance between economics and design: how architects can shape market forces.
Lower Hunter Urban Design Awards
The Lower Hunter Urban Design Awards were introduced in 1975 to raise the bar for urban design in the city.
Urbanized – A conversation about urban futures
Speakeasy Cinema in partnership with design100, a fundraiser for Open House Melbourne, present the film Urbanized.
2012 Australia Award for Urban Design
Winners in the 2012 Australia Award for Urban Design were announced in Canberra on 26 June.
Now and When: Australian urbanism
An exhibition of a collection of dramatic urban visions from some of Australia’s leading architects.
Hampstead Common
In Brisbane’s Highgate Hill, several organizations hope to turn a busy road into a common.
Barangaroo redux
Lee Stickells outlines the debates surrounding the Barangaroo development.
Ellenbrook Estate – revisited
With a number of landscape architecture firms behind its design, Western Australia’s Ellenbrook Estate is worth reflecting on.
Urban change / Renew Newcastle
Tarsha Finney argues for greater agency in the process of urban renewal by maintaining an economic perspective.
WSUD technical tour
A tour of 5 sites explaining the background, context, planning, design and construction of water sensitive urban design.
The creation of place
Placemaking is not simply about reconnecting people with place, it’s about reconnecting people with each other.
International Urban Design Conference
Exploring “resilience,” the 2011 International Urban Design Conference featured speakers from around the world.
Snapshot
The continual sprawl of Australian cities was cause for recent discussion across Sydney micromedia.
Water Sensitive Urban Design
This manual for Water Sensitive Urban Design (WSUD) focuses on innovative water management for the city of the future.
Same old new world cities
How vision and strategy are missing from the Australian Government’s National Urban Policy discussion paper.
New research into disability access
A pilot of a concept designed to measure the accessibility of neighbourhoods and local government areas has been completed.
Port Botany Expansion
Twelve kilometres south of the Sydney CBD, Port Botany has experienced a transformation by AECOM that aims to unify the site.
City 2.0 wins TED Prize
The inspirational conference series TED has given the TED Prize for 2012 to the idea of The City 2.0.
Nanjing masterplan by CK Designworks
Melbourne architecture firm CK Designworks has presented a masterplan for a twenty-square-kilometre, high-tech city in Nanjing, China.
