#urbandesign — Public Fediverse posts

https://www.europesays.com/ie/682097/ Stefano Boeri Architetti Wins Competition for Timber Affordable Housing in Ibiza #AffordableHousing #Architecture #Arts #ArtsAndDesign #ArtsAndDesign #ArtsDesign #CrossLaminatedTimber #Design #Éire #Entertainment #EnvironmentalDesign #ibiza #IE #Ireland #Spain #StefanoBoeriArchitetti #SustainableArchitecture #UrbanDesign

Artists got fed up with ‘anti-homeless spikes’ and revamped them in the coolest way

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.upworthy.com/anti-homeless-spikes-revenge-ex1/

“All the cities of the world are going to expand. We need to have a better understanding of what makes good urban habitat for home sapiens.”*…

“When did our vision of the future become so constrained, tired, and even dystopic?” Julien Crockett talks with Bruno Carvalho, the author of The Invention of the Future: A History of Cities in the Modern World, about the history of city planning and how urban design intertwines with a society’s prognostications and projections…

Cities have long been places of possibility—places where it seemed that we could break from the past and create an entirely new future. As Bruno Carvalho observes in his new book, The Invention of the Future: A History of Cities in the Modern World, this mindset is a key feature of what it means to be “modern”—a sensibility toward the present and the future as it relates to the past.

Yet, as Carvalho’s wide-ranging history details, a break from the past does not assume a positive vision of the future. In fact, Carvalho begins his book with the question “Where did the future go?”—the title of a debate between the venture capitalist Peter Thiel and anthropologist David Graeber. Both imagine that the only cities of tomorrow are on Mars. When did our vision of the future become so constrained, tired, and even dystopic?

Carvalho’s book returns to a recurring paradox we have faced since the Enlightenment: the better our capacity for creation and prediction, the more limited our ability to imagine a new future. He marvels, though, that “we know some of what is coming: urbanization and climate change, life and death. Between all that, there is a lot of space for reinvention.”

In our conversation, we look to the past to help us think through what reinvention might look like and discuss what it means to plan for a radically different future. We also discuss the legacies of Silicon Valley, the construction of New York City, urban futures moving from the West across the Pacific, and whether Carvalho is optimistic about what’s to come…

Eminently worth reading and pondering: “Where Did the Future Go?” from @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social.

* Jan Gehl

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As we undertake to understand the urban, we might recall that it was on this date in 455 that the Vandals entered Rome, which they plundered for the next two weeks.  It was, as sackings went (this was Rome’s third, of four altogether), relatively “light”:  while the Vandals (who had destroyed all of Rome’s aqueducts on their approach) looted Roman treasure and sold many Romans into slavery, their leader Genseric acceded to the pleas of Pope Leo that the Vandals refrain from the wholesale slaughter of Rome’s population and the destruction of the Eternal City’s historic buildings.

Architekturwettbewerb Dorfmitte Oberlienz 2022

www.kato.co.at

#katoarchitects
#oberlienz #osttirol #tirol #austria
#architektur #architecture #architectureaustria
#architecturecompetition
#architecturelovers #architectureporn #architecturedesign #architectures #architecturelife #architecturegram #architecturedaily #architecturelike #architectureproject #archdaily #archihunter #archilovers
#architecturemodel
#urbandesign #stadtentwicklung #baukultur #zukunftsplanung

modell by #diemodellbauer

Visual Clustering Of Urban Environments: Associations With Household And Travel Characteristics
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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2025.104546 <-- shared paper
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#UrbanAnalytics #TravelBehavior #BuiltEnvironment #StreetViewImagery #UrbanDesign #TransportationPlanning #Seattle #Equity #DataScience #PSRC #PugetSound #PacificNorthWest #USA #PNW #model #modeling #StreetView #spatialanalysis #spatiotemporal #remotesensing #StreetView #SVI #BMI #urbanform #travel #routing #travelbehaviour #methodology #visualintelligence #planning #policy #urbanplanning #mobility #visualmetrics #walkability #transit #urbandesign #workflow #GIS #spatial #mapping

Map To Poster – Create Art of your favourite city

https://github.com/originalankur/maptoposter

#HackerNews #MapToPoster #CityArt #UrbanDesign #CreativeProjects #ArtLovers

Someone finally built the car that charges itself.

Just talked to Robert Hoevers, CEO of Squad Mobility, about their solar-powered city car. Panel on the roof. Battery underneath. Park it in the sun, drive it around town—it just keeps charging.

Live somewhere sunny? You literally never plug in. The average person drives 12km a day for errands. This does 150km max range. The math works.

5,300 pre-orders. €1.5M in European funding. Production starts next year.
Street legal. Crash tested.
Robert put it simply: "It's like a second car."

Exactly. Not for highway commutes but perfect for the grocery run, city trip, the school drop-off and all those short trips where driving a massive polluting vehicle makes zero sense.

Sometimes the obvious solution just needed someone to build it.

Watch the Video 👉 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RI8gnYxn0OE
Listen to the Podcast 👉 https://itspradio.com/episodes/solar-ev-that-never-needs-charging-w-robert-hoevers-squad-mobility-brand-highlight-story

#electricvehicle #EV #solarpower #electriccar #sustainableliving #ecofriendly #cleanenergy #greenenergy #innovation #climatetech #solarcar #solarEV #citycar #urbanmobility #micromobility #electricmobility #sustainabletransport #emobility #evlife #electricvehicles #sustainablelifestyle #zerowaste #carbonfootprint #greenliving #ecoconscious #sustainablefuture #climataction #gogreen #ecoinnovation #renewableenergy #futureofmobility #smartcities #urbandesign #minimalism #modernliving #simpleliving #tinycar #compactcar #europetravel #europeanstyle #gatedcommunity #smartliving #citylife #urbanlife #europeandesign #startup #crowdfunding #preorder #disruptor #sustainability #greentech #cleantech #futuretech #europeanstartupRetry

🚀✨ Gablok Nederland at #SmartCityDay2025 📡🌐

💡 Building tomorrow’s cities starts with smarter construction methods.

🗓 September 10ᵗʰ, 2025
📍 Hamburg Cruise Center Baakenhöft
⏰ Noon – 6 pm
🔗 More info: https://Smart-City-Day.net

#PassiveBuildings #PassiveConstructions #ModularConstruction #PrefabHouse #PrefabConstruction #ConstructionInnovation #SustainableNeighbourhood #SustainableBuilding #UrbanDesign #Urbanism #Architecture #SmartCity #SmartCityDayHamburg #Gablok #BVSC #BVSCnet #BVSCevents

Creative Benches (27 Photos)

https://streetartutopia.com/2025/11/19/creative-benches-that-make-me-want-to-travel/

Sasaki (company) (Ecology 🏞️)

Sasaki is a design firm specializing in Architecture, Interior Design, Urban Design, Space Planning, Landscape Architecture, Ecology, Civil Engineering, and Place Branding. The firm is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, but practices on an international scale, with offices in Shanghai, and Denver, Colorado, and clients and projects globally.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sasaki_(company)

#Sasaki #Ecology #Planning #UrbanDesign #InteriorDesign

Another motor vehicle ran into fence of Monterey’s North Fremont St center-of-street bike lanes. This design was 1st such design in California. (BTW #CalBike referred to the project as "Worst award-winning bikeway” of 2020 https://www.calbike.org/calbikes-best-and-worst-of-2020/.)

San Francisco followed Monterey's lead, putting center lanes on Valencia St, then realized that (for most locales) center bikeways aren’t the smartest design. Thanks to persistence of advocate & organizer @LukeBornheimer & other supporters of protected curbside bike lanes—not center lanes—things are looking up for Valencia. Links&resources for advocates: https://actionnetwork.org/letters/valencia-bikelanes/

Meanwhile in Monterey, sharp debris from latest N Fremont collision, plus fence wire sticking out into bike lane, is shown in post—along with how to report conditions in #Monterey County &on #California hwys: https://bikemonterey.org/report-bikeway-maintenance-needs-e-g-north-fremont-monterey.html
#BikeTooter #MontereyCounty #NorthFremont #transportation #infrastructure #UrbanDesign #TransportationDesign #UrbanPlanning #ActiveTransportation #PublicSafety

This year Ottawa Architecture Week (OAW) Panel Discussion - same as the theme of this Architecture Week is "City of Play: FUN in the Capital?"

Tuesday, September 26
Our panelists:
✨Dominic Laporte
✨Sarah Gelbard (<- that's me!)
✨Graeme Hussey
✨Court Curry
moderated by Penny Lee Colbourne

https://www.oawfest.com/events/2023/9/26/ottawa-architecture-week-panel-discussion-night

#Ottawa #OAW2023 #oawfest #oawfest23 #ottawaarchitectureweek #architecture #ottawaevents #yow #urbandesign #ottcity #ottawafestivals #ottnews #OttArch #architecture #613

#MultiUse #PublicSpaces and #UrbanDesign: #Copenhagen and #Social #Integration | ArchDaily

"#Life, #space, #buildings - in that order". This phrase, from the #Danish #urban #architect #JanGehl, sums up the changes that Copenhagen has undergone in the last 50 years.

https://www.archdaily.com/992621/multi-use-public-spaces-and-urban-design-copenhagen-and-social-integration

So glad to have participated in the Academic #MindTrek Conference ‘CO-designing the Affective City’ by #TampereUniversity & #ParisLodronUniversitätSalzburg with @sghosh & learn how we can create speculative, affective urban spaces. We used old #Delhi (#chandnichowk) + #Kolkata (#CollegeStreet) as case studies.

💪🏼❤️🦾

#gamification #urbandesign #MindTrek22 #TAUCHI #hci #commondon #MediaStudies #AffectStudies #MindtrekConference22 #HumanComputerInteraction