One of the best-loved spaces in Christchurch (New Zealand) city centre is open to the public again, and in a landscape that still bears significant scars, it once again welcomes locals and visitors with its soft, green and familiar character. | Read More
Beckenham Place Park in south-east London reopened to the public on 20 July as one of the capital’s largest council-owned parks after being used as a golf course for over 100 years. London Borough of Lewisham sought to improve the | Read More
BIG recently announced that it was reimaging The Brooklyn Queens Expressway, or BQE and transforming aging infrastructure into a park through a staged deconstruction and construction phases. The Brooklyn Queens Expressway, or BQE, built by Robert Moses in the 1950s, | Read More
The John G. and Phyllis W. Smale Riverfront Park is a 32-acre park along the banks of the Ohio River in downtown Cincinnati. The largest in a series of public parks along the high banks of the river, the park | Read More
UN Environment Share the Road is urging governments in developing countries to invest in pedestrians and cyclists, as this can save lives, help protect the environment, improve air quality and support poverty reduction. Meeting the needs of pedestrians and cyclists | Read More
The Fish Market Square is part of the historical center of Leuven, to be transformed into a car-free, pedestrianized area. The layout of the square was always defined by a sequence of dominant uses: a harbor for transportation, a market | Read More
On a 50 m pavement stretch at Nørrebro in Copenhagen you can now walk on water. A pilot sidewalk for the innovative climate adaptation project The Climate Tile is now laid out in front of Café Heimdalsgade22, to the delight | Read More
A team of researchers from the Singapore-ETH Centre (SEC) and the National University of Singapore (NUS) are undertaking a three-year research project which aims at incorporating the environment into holistic, national-scale planning by calculating the economic benefits from environmental assets | Read More
The USDA Forest Service recently published the US Urban Forest Statistics, Values, and Projections (David J. Nowak and Eric J. Greenfield) in the March edition of the Journal of Forestry. The study estimates the change in urban land on a national level (USA) and state-by-state, and | Read More
Resilient by Design recently announced the 10 design teams who will develop implementable projects that offer an imaginative and collaborative approach to resilience. Resilient by Design | Bay Area Challenge is a collaborative research and design project that brings together | Read More
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