Insights

A spate of adaptive reuse projects in Indonesia show how to revitalise urban spaces with sensitivity to commercial and cultural elements

A partnership of grassroots activists and the expertise of a small architecture firm has provided a way forward for public housing and its many residents in Victoria

As urban centres grapple with escalating land scarcity, the intersection of industrial and residential planning emerges as a compelling solution

Car parks take up a large amount of the urban footprint, and often sit empty. Can we move beyond this type of static infrastructure to design spaces that will work for our future cities?

The work of groundbreaking architect Christopher Alexander gives us both a lens to critique urban design and a toolkit for creating our own spaces

Transit-Oriented Development has shown success in some countries. Can it work in cultural centre Yogyakarta?

Working with The Oval Partnership, Wedderburn Transport Planning is using an evidence-based approach to develop context-sensitive forms of Open City Design that are culturally and commercially successful, while providing safe and comfortable access to transit stations.

Patrick Geddes is regarded by many as the father of citizen participation, and is renowned for his theories based on the “autonomous community” and “bottom-up” planning. He pioneered the place-making approach, was founder of the urban conservation movement and originated the phrase, “Think Global, Act Local”.

Digital Placemaking is a term we coined to encompass a set of data-driven processes harnessing place and people data analytics. The endeavor is to craft a toolkit for spotting emerging urban patterns—location intelligence if you will—and to capitalize on them through design and place curation for all to benefit.

Infrastructure never exists in isolation; each is part of a larger system we call the city

Working towards family well-being centred planning and architecture

How to Make Our Urban Living Environment a Better Place with Creative Interventions

Third spaces or places might emerge from different contexts, but none of them refers to a physical, concrete place. Rather, they point to a zone of borderlands and convergences where ambiguities reign.