Image 1 of 7 from gallery of What Is an Urban Oasis? Combating the Excessive Heat of Cities. Henning G. Kruses Plads / BIG. Image: © Rasmus Hjortshøj
Pavilion Park is the first of several communities developed by Great Park Neighborhoods, sited around the perimeter of the Orange County Great Park.
Image 76 of 112 from gallery of From Tiny Squares to Urban Parks: 100 Public Spaces From All Around the World. Photograph by Tomasz Zakrzewski
These innovative structures completely change their surroundings
HOK Regional Leader of Planning Zach Christeson, ASLA, describes the benefits of renewing outdoor spaces as part of office building repositioning projects.
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The citizens of Cordova, Spain are so lucky to have this cheerful public space. It was just completed last year by Paredespino Architects. The parasols were designed for people to lounge below for shade, or sit upon for sun. Wouldn't you love to have something like this in your city? {Images via Lenore Nevermore by Jorge López Conde and Paredes Pino}
Completed in 2020 in Shanghai, China. Images by Min Yang. In the Project on Public Space Connection of both Banks of Huangpu River, 22 River View Service Stations have been constructed in the 22 km long...
Discover innovative urban interventions revitalizing neglected spaces in cities with simple yet effective solutions.
Water, whether through storm drainage channels, channelized streams, canals, urbanized waterfronts, etc. can be a potent urban design tool. At different scales, water can provide numerous positive …
Once a mundane parking lot, the park now serves as an engaging public space designed for the various needs of community members.
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Creating the civic commons is the work of all of us. And with the challenges we face today, I can’t think of anything more urgent.
The Pools Irvine, CA An 8-acre park inside of the Great Park Neighborhoods in Irvine,...
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Image 7 of 13 from gallery of 10 Innovative Outdoor Benches Shaping Public Spaces. Photograph by Kyungsub Shin
Activity mapping is a critical tool in urban design for analysing and comprehending the patterns and interactions of human activities in a city or town.
The ways in which citizens modify public spaces to suit their own needs, whether by creating 'goat trails' in places that lack proper sidewalks or actively 'hacking' infrastructure, tell urban planners how cities need to be adapted and influence their growth. Urban hacktivism is a direct means of shaping cities to our desires, often through temporary
The Pools Irvine, CA An 8-acre park inside of the Great Park Neighborhoods in Irvine,...
Image 2 of 11 from gallery of Urban Acupuncture: Regenerating Public Space Through Hyper-Local Interventions. Photograph by Raphael Thibodeau
Research Report from 2012 Public Interest Design Summer Program's Externship with Public Architecture
OFL zighizaghi is a welcoming public space made of hexagonal wooden elements.
Image 4 of 13 from gallery of 10 Innovative Outdoor Benches Shaping Public Spaces. Polymorphic / Columbia University GSAPP. Image © Jennifer Chang
Kathryn Gustafson < http://www.gustafson-porter.com/ > Kathryn Gustafson, the Landscape Architect, established her practice in Paris in 1980, working as a sole practitioner in collaboration with architects, artists, and engineers. Kathryn initially studied fashion design at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York City before moving to Paris to study landscape architecture at the Ecole Nationale Superieure du Paysage in Versaille, France where she obtained her Diploma in 1979. Through her private practice, she has won a series of high profile landscape projects including the corporate headquarters for Shell, Esso and l’Oreal near Paris, a new park in Terrasson la Villedieu which has become a listed landmark, the Square of Human Rights in Evry and Square Rachmaninov in Paris. Kathryn Gustafson now works throughout the world with the two offices, Gustafson Porter in London and Gustafson Guthrie Nichol in Seattle Diana, Princess of Wales Memorial Fountain, London, 2004 Old market Square,Nottingham, 2007 Shoreline Walk, Beirut,2008
Image 21 of 28 from gallery of Urban Movement Design debuts UNIRE/UNITE at MAXXI (Young Architects Program). Courtesy of Fondazione MAXXI © Cecilia Fiorenza
