For about a year Gelh Architects worked on research for Moscow preparing recommendations for making the city livable and comfortable for people. The full report is published as a very nice book. On this video you can see a short presentation of the report.
A big interesting article about Green Walls you can find on Continuing Education Center site.
Interesting speeches from David Sim (Gehl Architects), Andreas Dalgaard (the director of films “The human Scale” and “Cities on Speed — Bogotá Change”) and architects Rory Hyde and Felicity Stewart at Vivid Ideas festival in Sydney. They talk about Urban Space and how to make it more comfortable for people.
A great film by William H.Whyte analyzes the most important characteristics that help urban places to become real Social Spaces.
This project was presented on the international competition «PARK’ing» – for making up the design of the urban ecological object. I think this is a great idea combining nature and a social space. All the information about the project you can find here.
The National Open Spaces Sacred Places Awards Program, sponsored by the TKF Foundation, is pleased to announce that it will provide $4.5 million in funding for six projects of national significance. This grant program is unusual in that each project integrates landscape design and empirical research. The collection of exceptional spaces will demonstrate how nearby nature in the city […]
The Department of Psychology at Stanford University seeks an innovative scholar for a tenure-track faculty appointment in the area of environmental psychology. We seek a motivated researcher whose work addresses the human dimensions of environmental or resource systems. Research areas could include the moral, behavioral, and experiential dimensions of human-environment interactions or environmental decision-making with […]