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Tag Archives: sustainability
An Implementation Critique of Jan Gehl’s “Cities for People”
By Renard Teipelke In 2010, Danish architect and urban design thinker Jan Gehl compiled his profession’s key urban design principles and convictions in the well-received book “Cities for People”. I like the way he describes how the planning and development … Continue reading
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Tagged architecture, building design, car, Cities for People, city government, eye level, human, interest group, Jan Gehl, land markets, local government, local politics, modernism, modernist planning, perspective, Place Development, Place Management, scale, soft edges, sustainability, urban design, urban development
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Doing Things Differently: Often Said, Rarely Done
By Renard Teipelke How often have you experienced it? You are part of a team that sits around a table, in the background ideally a flipchart or whiteboard. Everyone is full of ideas about the new project. There is excitement … Continue reading
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Tagged airport, alternative, architecture, business, client, creativity, design, new, project management, sustainability, Thailand
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Lessons Learned on How Singapore Got It Right
By Renard Teipelke After I visited the city-state Singapore in November 2014, I wanted to write a blog article about my impressions from extensively walking and experiencing the city. I am not residing there, but at least I took what … Continue reading
Posted in research
Tagged 3P, Asia, city state, density, diversity, green planning, livability, mixed-use, PPP, public housing, Singapore, smart city, sustainability, urban design, urban development
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Unlimited Growth of Gulf Airports: The Sky Has a Limit?!
By Renard Teipelke If you happen to travel between Europe, Africa, and Asia, you will nowadays very likely stopover and transfer in one of the big airport hubs of the Middle East: Dubai, Doha, or Abu Dhabi. Strategically located between … Continue reading
Posted in miscellaneous, opinions
Tagged Abu Dhabi, air travel, city state, Doha, Dubai, growth, infrastructure, Middle East, Network, Qatar, socio-technical, sustainability, transport, United Arab Emirates, urban design
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Ugly as the (Not So) Logical Norm?
By Renard Teipelke Take a look at the above picture. What do you see? A high-rise building, residential or mix-used. Is it an architectural icon? Well, it probably passes as “ugly” or at least “generic” in most readers’ view. There … Continue reading
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Tagged architecture, density, design, housing, investment, market, metropolises, regulations, standards, sustainability, urban fabric
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Measure It, Compare It, Monitor It
By Renard Teipelke Is there still a topic about ‘the urban’ which is left to be put into a new index!? Probably yes, but the key aspects have already been indexed abundantly. It is very likely the case that we … Continue reading
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Tagged city performance, data, index, monitoring, professionalization, ranking, sustainability, urban development, vision
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Misplaced Perceptions of Urban Development beyond ‘the West’
By Renard Teipelke “I was so negatively surprised: This city looks exactly like a city in Europe or the US.” (…) “I couldn’t believe how they can do so much wrong – it is so different from our cities.” I … Continue reading
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Tagged colonies, consulting, context, global city, Global South, ordinary city, paradigm, sustainability, urban development, urban planning, West, world city
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Pick of the Day: African Cities and the Evil of Global City Development Paradigms
By Renard Teipelke A critical discussion about “Global Cities” is neither new to this blog (see for instance 1, 2, 3) nor to the community of critical geographic research. However, our understanding of “Global Cities” and “Ordinary Cities” in the … Continue reading
Gardens in the City (II): Allotment Gardens
By Markus Kather After blogging about today’s meaning of community gardenig from a broad perspective in my last post on Gardens in the City, I want to look at a rather specific type of community garden: the allotment. There are more … Continue reading
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Tagged allotments, garden gnomes, sustainability, urban gardening, urban planning
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Pick of the day: Hamburg’s Creative Class and the Post-Creative City | This Big City
“Hamburg, being an industrial centre rather than a traditional university hub, has unrealised potential to break into new fields of higher and vocational education, expanding its already well-established position in media and logistics markets. Additional to the interest in engaging knowledge … Continue reading
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Tagged Creative City, Creative Class, Gängeviertel, Hafencity, Hamburg, IBA Hamburg, Not in our name, sustainability
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