New Towns Initiative
New towns have been a dominant concept in urban planning throughout the 20th…
Topic Infrastructure
Conference: “Landscape Infrastructure”
Landscape Infrastructure Systems & Strategies for Contemporary Urbanization A two-day symposium exploring the…
Building Industries in African Water Cities
Kunlé Adeyemi
This studio will explore the city of Durban to examine the challenges and opportunities presented…
Urban Infrastructure, Environment, and Sustainability
Lily Song
Urban infrastructures are socio-technical systems of facilities and services (i.e. energy, telecommunications,…
Frontiers of innovation: reconsidering the Boston Harbor Islands
Through his work at West 8, Daniel Vasini started looking at the idea that…
Deconstruction/Construction: Cheonggyecheon River Project
Recipient of the 10th Veronica Rudge Green Prize in Urban Design. The evolution of the Cheonggyecheon River in just twenty-nine months from an outmoded utilitarian highway into a multipurpose performative infrastructural piece of unprecedented size merits recognition as a seminal project in contemporary urban…
Hutong Metabolism, Beijing
Zhang Ke
Hutongs in Beijing, the traditional courtyard-and-alley system of urban dwelling that is the most…
The Oceanic Turn: Advanced Landscape Infrastructure Seminar
Pierre Bélanger
Pierre Belanger meets with students Adriana Chavez (March ’13, MDes ’14), Erin Wythoff (MLA ’14),…
Collective Meta-Structures: Increasing Scales of Commercial Development
by B. Cannon Ivers (MLA 16’) and Mark Jongman-Sereno (MLA ’17, MArch ’17) Working within the…
Madrid Río
Recipients of the 2015 Veronica Rudge Green Prize in Urban Design: Burgos & Garrido Porras La Casta Rubio & Álvarez-Sala West8 Madrid Río illustrates the transformative potentials of architecture, landscape, urban design, and planning for the city of Madrid. The project particularly…