Urban renewal

After 3 months of submissions and project reviews, the jury for Project Earth 2's Cities of Tomorrow competition has announced its winners.With the competition focusing on refugees and refugee camps, Project Earth 2 proposed a different approach towards these camps and their inhabitants...

The Chaotic And Dynamic Slum. Understanding and Solving Issues within the Urban Renewal Strategy of Dharavi. The dissertation aims to understand the issues with the existing and proposed situation in terms of both physical and social attributes with the case of Dharavi in Mumbai, India, and providing strategies for a socially integrated slum intervention solution.

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Image 7 of 50 from gallery of The Youth Activity Center, Old Garment Factory Renovation / REDe Architects + Moguang Studio. Photograph by Zhi Xia

In recent decades, SOM’s urban design work in China has created several successful old town redevelopment planning projects—such as Shanghai Xintiandi and Foshan Lingnan Tiandi—that integrate China’s ancient urban heritage into a new type of urban placemaking, one that celebrates local traditions while also creating immeasurable economic, social, and cultural value. Guangzhou’s Old Town is the latest of these.

We've posted before about how modern cities are designed for automobiles, which is not necessarily a good thing. But what are you going to do about it? Believe it or not, there are cities who have taken the step of ripping out highways to reduce traffic and bring city life back to people. That doesn't mean those areas are free of streets, but without multi-lane highways, commuters take longer routes around where they once went straight through the neighborhoods. And the results are looking…

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The development of Solvangkvateret Urban Renewal is about creating a better and more socially robust solution for an area comprising great challenges.

The transformation of Darling Harbour in Sydney, Australia, is the city’s most significant urban renewal initiative in 20 years – a once in a generation opportunity to remake a critical, central neighborhood. The harbor-side precinct is now home to the International Convention Centre Sydney (ICC Sydney) comprising three exceptional new venues, a luxury hotel – and a new mixed-use neighborhood is on the way.