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Biophilic Cities: Integrating Nature into Urban Design and Planning
The quest to integrate a rapid urbanization with natural living systems is a top priority for cities around the globe. Tim Beatley’s attempts to...
By Kevin Zhang -
(re)Designing Nature: Current Concepts for Shaping Nature in Art and Landscape Architecture.
Given our ecological pressure and current drive towards urbanization, seeking to reevaluate the divisive relationship between the built world and nature...
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Pamphlet Architecture 31: Coupling
A gallery and manifesto for a team of multi-titled architectural strategists: COUPLING offers both a graphically thrilling presentation of large scale...
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Partnerships in Urban Property Development
Property development is a fascinating game with a range of players that increases with the size and complexity of the project. Things get even more...
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Le Corbusier: Homme de Lettres
“Known for his modern architecture, numbering fewer than sixty buildings, Charles Edouard Jeanneret/Le Corbusier (1887-1965) also wrote some fifty...
By Sean Ruthen -
Seven Rules for Sustainable Communities: Design Strategies for the Post-carbon World
With years of research and experience in designing sustainable urban landscape, University of British Columbia Professor Patrick Condon shares what he has...
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Down Detour Road
Eric Cesal shares his personal account of the direction the profession of architecture needs to move to on the heels of the recent financial collapse, in...
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Urbanism in the Age of Climate Change
“To Jane Jacob’s three traditional urban values of civic space, human scale and diversity, the current environmental imperative adds two more...
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Narrow Houses: New Directions in Efficient Design
With growing interest in compact and narrow urban housing, Avi Friedman’s most recent book – Narrow Houses – is a timely and...
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Reservoir
Delve into the mysterious and surreal urban imagery of Dutch photographer Bas Princen’s most recent book, RESERVOIR. Photos by Bas Princen, edited...
By Elle Ziegler -
The Urbanist’s Guide to Vancouver Part 1: Food and Drink
Although re:place may not be the first site one would turn to when looking for a dining guide, there is no doubt that going out to restaurants or other...
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The Urbanist’s Guide to Vancouver Part 2: Outdoor Spaces and Meanders
For the second installment of The Urbanist’s Guide to Vancouver, we present a list of some of the great and interesting public spaces in and around...
By Spacing