Tag: urban design
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Schouwburgplein: More than meets the eye
Dutch cities are known for many things, but grand plazas aren’t one of them. Whilst there are many older plazas in the inner cities of Amsterdam, The Hague and Utrecht, one plaza in Rotterdam counters the typical image of the Dutch plaza: the old-city center point surrounded by mainly low or midrise buildings. Schouwburgplein (Theatre…
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Urban Design: A literature review
Whilst a grad student, I learned that the opinions on what urban design is, vary greatly between planners, architects, and landscape architects. It’s only fair to admit that most urban designers in the United States today are trained as architects. Some of them might argue that urban design is essentially a large-scale architectural exercise, where…
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NACTO Urban Street Design Guide available 9/23/2013
WRITTEN BY ALINE FADER About a year ago talk began about the NACTO* Urban Street Design Guide. This video indicates that it might be out next month! September 23, 2013 to be precise. You can even pre-order, if you are are into that sort of thing. This guide may be an important step in helping…
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Urban Trauma: How the City Deals with Disaster
The presence of trauma in the arts is nothing new. Its creation is therapeutic, and its legacy is even stronger: trauma art is some of the most famous artistic creations because they give meaning to an insurmountable feeling that is felt by an entire population. These people, who come together over the art, form a…
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A couple thoughts to start the week
WRITTEN BY ALINE FADER Sandy threw off the planned posts I was going to write over the past month, so thought I would compile a couple shorter thoughts for sharing today… Designing for the Deaf Some of you may recall that a while ago Gallaudet (a Washington, DC based school for the deaf) came up with some design guidelines for the…