• Healthie Cities

    Helle Søholt, CEO and Founding Partner of Gehl Architects recently appeared at a TED talk in Sao Paulo, Brazil and stressed the potential of thinking about cities as solution engines for leading a healthier lifestyle instead of thinking about them as generators of health problems.

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  • Actively Learning from Copenhagen’s Transport Success

    In this public lecure at SFU Vancouver, Andreas Røhl, a cycling specialist with Urban Systems Ltd., describes his experience as the City of Copenhagen’s Bicycle Program manager. Andreas manages Copenhagen’s Bicycle Program and recently joined Urban Systems Ltd. for a temporary term in their Metro Vancouver office. He is participating in a range of active …

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  • FiberCity

    Fibercity is a proposal by Ohno laboratory, The University of Tokyo, which is aiming at a paradigm shift of urban planning and architectural design away from modernist thinking. Fibercity is a planning theory that tries to control urban space by operating urban factors with glinearh qualities. It is composed on the metaphor of fibers (structural unit) …

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  • masterplan for the ex-falck area, milan

    Milan has historically been home to some of the world’s most recognized brands. being the hub of fabrication for many of them, the city now finds itself with decommissioned factories, closed, abandoned and often times forgotten, leaving a considerable amount of space unusable and often times unsightly. the falck steel plant of sesto san giovani in …

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