William J. Mitchell’s City of Bits: Space, Place, and the Infobahn, originally published in 1995, resembles a relic of early cyberculture scholarship, oscillating between visionary insight and embarrassing naiveté. As…
Memory and its relationship to architecture and urban space is a common topic of discussion in urban design and architecture. Memories are essential to life and shape experiences and perceptions…
Haat can be loosely explained as a marketplace for all, which is a platform built for rural and small-town artisans to retail their handicrafts and products, which they make with…
Gentrification is now such a widespread phenomenon that you most likely have heard of it – or lived it. It has risen over the years and affects multiple countries, from…
First life, then spaces, then buildings. The other way around only works sometimes. -Jan Gehl The 80-year-old Danish architect focuses on the idea of people-centric urban design in his book…
Shanghai Greenland centre, also known as the “URBAN FARM” sits on top of the busiest and most used metro stations in Shanghai. It forms the city’s largest urban park at…
MAD Architects won an international competition for the design of the Cuntan International Cruise Centre in Chongqing, China, headed by Ma Yansong and in partnership with the China Academy of…
The day is cloudy, but so are your thoughts. You are standing in awe, staring at your feet, settling on the stone pavement arranged playfully as to laugh at your…
Equally challenging as conceptualizing public place-making areas from scratch or perhaps more so are the urban regeneration projects that seek to develop existing parcels of land in cities that have…
Any successful urban space in a city has lots of factors attached to it. Spaces speak and portray some characters that create a certain experience for the user. Placemaking is…
