British musician Davide Byrne gives his vision of a perfect city, a combination of size; density; sensibility and attitude; security; chaos and danger; human scale; parking; boulevards; mixed use and public spaces. Here’s an excerpt of the his article “A Talking Head Dreams of a Perfect City” published on the Wall Street Journal september 11 [...]

An evalution of the largest art project in public space in the Netherlands. Nai Publishers releases ‘Art as Urban Strategy’ beyond Leidshe Rijn, editors Tom van Gestel, Henriëtte Heezen, Nathalie Zonnenberg. The Beyond programme of art is utterly unique in both concept and scale. Launched in 1997 in Leidsche Rijn, the largest new-style housing estate [...]

A team of seven researchers/artists led by visual artist Simon Faithfull have set up an unique mobile research station in Berlin to investigate existing urban waste ground in down town Berlin. Mobile Research Station No.1 is a curious hybrid – half hi-tech Antarctic Research Station / half rusty-broken-dumpster – built from standard waste container, the [...]

CABE UK government’s advisor on architecture, urban design and public space have recently published a report on Homes for our old age. The report features 10 case studies of housing schemes for older people, each of which offers inventive design and management solutions linking home and social care. U.K. statistics reveal that by 2032 the [...]

Urban Age releases ‘Cities and Social Equity Report’ a research report that assesses the challenges of inclusion in one of the world’s most unequal urban regions Urban Age is a leading worldwide investigation into the future of global cities. Initiated by the Cities Programme at the London School of Economics and Political Science and Deutsche [...]