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Copenhagen’s “Finger Plan” of 1947 has been influential to the city’s clean and ecologically sound environment. A sound example for thinking the urban through landscape. Landscape urbanism is after all the intervention upon processes and productions of urbanization, an important challenge Denmark’s Copenhagen was facing. The conceptual project was started to prevent urban sprawl on [...]
Graham says, an example of carefully networked emerging urban enclaves of ‘high-tech’ production and innovation that are emerging in in the newly constructed high-tech production and innovation spaces of the South is Bangalore in India. No doubt in that considering the statistics showing the city’s huge spike in employment over the past decade. While the [...]
Mariette Robin | Maite Rodríguez | Martina Antonietti | Liu Kai | Lan Haoyue Today’s Hong Kong city once again became part of China in 1997, becoming one of the "Special Administrative Regions" beginning a period of profound change and modernity. However, it is evident that neoliberalism in Hong Kong began in the 80s but [...]
A comparitive study with Martina Antonietti, Lan Haoyue, Liu Kai and Maite Rodríguez The main theme that in different ways Hong Kong and Detroit share is the decline. In Hong Kong the decline is more like a sensation that an era is ending, while in the second case the decline is evident, and the city [...]
The case study suggests that one of the most important driving force towards over tourism in Budapest is the possibility to have quality entertainment at a low cost in Europe. Especially its popular streets that host a number of ruin bars that are set up in abandoned residential and office buildings. While this can be [...]
Towards a new epistemology of the urban Neil Brenner and Christian Schmid A Reflection on the consequences that the concepts proposed by the authors may have in the sphere of urban and regional planning. Mariette Llewellyn Vanessa Robin Thesis 2: The urban is a process, not a universal form, settlement type or bounded unit Introduction [...]
Aspects of urban analysis explicitly approached by the film. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3FNcF7QBGw The Film The film addresses multiple urban issues ranging from the pros and cons of a non-democratic country to the disaster of a housing market that Hong Kong suffers from. The latter holds higher weightage in terms of aspects of urban analysis because it directly [...]
