Emergent Urbanism

Rediscovering Urban Complexity

New Towns

How they build today in Palestine

Submitted by Mathieu Helie on Wed, 01/14/2009 - 17:20, last updated Mon, 09/05/2011 - 21:47

Har Homa Settlement

Regional complexity and local community

Submitted by Mathieu Helie on Tue, 01/06/2009 - 22:09, last updated Sun, 11/06/2011 - 01:00

The housing crisis afflicting Britain has reached such an intolerable level that Prime Minister Gordon Brown is announcing what amounts to a nationalization of planning regulations (report via Planetizen). This comes on the heels of the mayor of Greater London being granted the power to override planning rules of boroughs in order solve the capital's even more outrageous housing situation, as recently as 2007.

The emergence of a sense of place

Submitted by Mathieu Helie on Sun, 06/15/2008 - 22:14, last updated Sun, 04/08/2012 - 23:11

Modern urbanism has given us a landscape that many consider to be soulless. Everything looks the same. Nothing creates a sense of place. New Urbanism has attempted to reverse this by returning to traditional architecture and town planning forms. This was done in European new towns, under the advice of well-meaning men like the Krier brothers, in the late 1970's, and did not succeed.

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