A detail from Jurgen Mayer H’s award winning proposalsBlueprint
Jurgen Mayer Architects were last named the winner of the Audi Urban Futures Award. The award is an innovation was set up by the German car manufacturer to encourage discussions around the relationship between mobility and urban planning. Mayer’s winning proposal posited a future where cars [...]

Ethel Baraona of dpr-barcelona interviews New York based Architect and Urban Designer Petra Kempf, author of the publication ‘You are the city‘; a unique ‘kit’ of drawings and text which readers can mix, organize and overlay as they please, creating their own city scenarios. The publication aims, through play and interaction, to provide the individual [...]

In a review of Urban Interventions - Personal Projects in Public Spaces, Regine Debatty of We Make Money Not Art writes that as well as being “surprising, fun and delightful” the publication also reveals how artists play an important role in placemaking. By bringing places alive the artwork featured in the book compels us [...]

A recent report published by CABE, the UK government’s advisor on architecture, urban design and public space, Community Green: using local spaces to tackle inequality and improve health reveals how improving urban green spaces represents an important and cost-effective opportunity for people to transform their local neighbourhoods and can significantly contribute to better health (physical [...]

What: Call for Mobility Pilots for an intelligent and inter-modal transport system
Where: Copenhagen
Who: Living Labs Global & City of Copenhagen
When: Deadline for submissions Aug 31; Results Sept 15; Pilot Start Nov 15 2010
Pilot duration: 1-6 months
The City of Copenhagen and Living Labs Global, a non-profit association based in Copenhagen (Denmark) with the objective to promote [...]