At present, urbanization around the globe appears to be an unstoppable trend. Architect Larson wants us to have the good things we like about cities and remove the bad things like too much space for cars and emissions. Using old-Paris as an example, neighborhoods are set up providing compact urban cell inhabitants of 20,000, or [...]
Each year, as a blogger, I’ve enjoyed covering the U.S. Department of Energy’s Solar Decathlon which takes place on the National Mall in Washington D.C. In this post, I’ve picked three of the college student’s models which each incorporated gardens into their plans. At the end is a link to view all of the contest [...]
TED talk: How food shapes our Cities by Carolyn Steel (16 minutes – October 2009). Carolyn is a “food urbanist.” “If the city looks after the countryside, the countryside will look after the city.” For anyone interested in some historical background of how cities such as Rome and London were designed around food supply routes, [...]
