Posts Tagged ‘public space’
People Changing Places
Friday, December 18, 2009 16:27 No CommentsThe collaboration that turned a city square into a giant interactive performance and forum for changing public spaces. Aiming to encourage engagement with the arts, cultural space and public realm, YourSpace a recent temporary transformation of Exhibition Square in York was the exciting culmination of a collaboration between architects of the award-winning architectural studio DSDHA [...]
David Byrne’s idea of a perfect city
Wednesday, September 16, 2009 16:12 No CommentsBritish 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 2009
“There’s [...]
Art as Urban Strategy: Beyond Leidshe Rijn
Monday, September 14, 2009 17:14 No CommentsAn 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 in the [...]
PARTICIPATORY URBAN PLANNING
Monday, July 6, 2009 17:53 No CommentsCandy Chang is an urban planner, artist and graphic designer based in Helsinki, Finland where she is a design specialist for Nokia. Before moving to Finland Candy lived in New York City (2001 -2009) where she carried out diverse collaborative community-based projects aimed at making information sharing more accessible and engaging through design and [...]
Implementing Urban Change
Friday, December 19, 2008 11:22 No CommentsPosted by Cluster, written by Nadia Somekh and Carlos Leite
By comparing São Paulo’s realities with international examples of urban regeneration, Nadia Somekh and Carlos Leite explore the constraints and opportunities to deliver high quality design in the city’s major urban projects.
When it comes to the realisation of major urban interventions, São Paulo is lagging behind [...]












