Students plan West Campus – Yale News
Two landscape management courses (Ecological Urbanism and Management Plans for Protected Areas) in the School of Forestry & Environmental Studies are developing plans this semester to make West Campus — Yale’s burgeoning site in West Haven for science research and the arts — more integrated with the natural lands surrounding it.
Public get chance to see £10m public realm plans – [Manchester Confidential]
Greengate is a major regeneration scheme on the edge of Manchester city centre, which will see 13 hectares of derelict brownfield land turned into a major mixed-use development, including new public realm. The public are invited to view the plans at The Premier Inn, Deansgate on Wednesday 24th November. There will be a staffed exhibition stand between 7am – 10am, 12pm – 2pm and between 5pm – 7pm, for questions from the public.
We will try and get plans and post them to World Landscape Architect
Guerrilla Urban Planning Meets Resistance – India RealTime Blog on Wall Street Journal
WSJ looks at the what occurs when 35 architects, planners and artists called Urban Typhoon try to get residents involved in changing their neighborhoods. Article also includes a video.
Planning expert tells Aussies to slum it [ABC News]
As we reported yesterday the City of the Future: Australian & US Perspectives conference is being held in Brisbane and in follow up reports in the news John Norquist, the president of the United States Congress for New Urbanism was reported as “Mr Norquist points to Rio’s favalas as examples of functional communities and says the informal arrangements made in slums are a good model for how councils can improve zoning laws.”
Beijing initiates pilot public bike rental service project
The city reknowned world wide for its bicycles and images over the decades of people riding bikes is launching a public bike rental scheme – Shanghai, Hangzhou and other chinese cities already have schemes in place. Four areas will be used as a trial and 273 outlets will be built and stationed near Line 4 & 5 Subway stations.
New Book: GSD Platform 3 – Available Now from Actar or December 1, 2010 through Amazon $34.95USD
is a selection of work produced during the 2009-2010 academic year of the Harvard University Graduate School of Design and the potential of that work to address broader questions and inform global initiatives.
Exhibition: GSD Platform 3
GSD Platform 3 is also an Exhibition is being held at Gund Hall Lobby from November 1 – December 19, 2010
Event: Lewis Lapham – What Makes a City Great – Central Library Kansas City 6:30pm [via Kansas Star]
New Yorkers to choose Taxi of Tomorrow [NYC.gov]
Personally I would go with the Ford Transit. Similar vehicle to the 4000 VW Touran taxis that were introduced for Shanghai for Expo 2010.
Other Links
At least $132 million coming to coast to rebuild Katrina-damaged homes [gulflive.com]
Moscow mayor calls his city’s planning “a collection of faults” [Xinhua]
Futuristic Solar Skyscraper Wins the Taiwan Tower Competition – [Inhabitat]
Huangshan to Build Cultural Tourism Complex – [Anhui News]
$597 millionUSD investment in 180 hectares – 26 projects
Stirring the Basin – [ABC]
Australian farmer talks about the Murray-Darling Basin plan and water in Australia