Tag: urbanism

• African brutalism explored: read our guide | Wallpaper

  August 26, 2025

  Discover the complex and manifold legacies of brutalist architecture in Africa with writer and curator Fabiola Büchele. Brutalism, arguably the easiest architectural language with which to have a love-hate relationship,… more ›

• How Lisbon put itself on the map for real estate and tourism – and became Europe’s least affordable city | Agustín Cocola-Gant | The Guardian

  June 25, 2025

  Tourists stay in short-term rentals and foreigners buy second homes, while residents of the city rent rooms, not apartments, says researcher Agustín Cocola-Gant https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jun/25/lisbon-europe-portugal-golden-visa-capital-investors-short-term-rentals more ›

• Top 15 Theories In Urban Planning

  June 1, 2025

  Various theories have emerged to guide and inform urban planning practices. Here are some of the key theories in urban planning. https://urbandesignlab.in/top-15-theories-in-urban-planning/ more ›

• An Urbanist Reading List – by Ryan Puzycki and Diana Lind

  May 31, 2025

  Who to Subscribe to on Substack https://www.ryanpuzycki.com/cp/163211197 more ›

• The Urban Doom Loop Could Still Happen

  August 16, 2024

  City economies are booming, but the risk of a commercial-real-estate crash remains as real as ever. “It’s another truly amazing gold rush!” Marc Benioff posted on X in September 2023.… more ›

• Climate urbanism

  April 28, 2024

  “Rebuilding our cities, rendered imperative by a delayed response to climate change, will require a radically altered approach to managing flooding, to lessening heat exposure and to coping with drought… more ›

• Crypto Cities

  November 8, 2021

  One interesting trend of the last year has been the growth of interest in local government, and in the idea of local governments that have wider variance and do more… more ›

• Constrained by the Limitations of Soviet-Era Architecture, Brodsky & Utkin Imagined Fantastical Structures on Paper

  May 10, 2021

  To be an architect with vision in the Soviet Union during the 1970s and 80s, was to witness a near complete loss of Moscow’s historical architectural heritage. Restrictions on aesthetics,… more ›

• Cognitive Mapping and Social Change 1

  April 2, 2021

  Cognitive Mapping and Social Change 1 The Structure of Environmental Representations – the work of Kevin Lynch Kevin Lynch (1960) was an urban planner who carried out pioneering work on… more ›

• Introduction to BLOXHUB

  February 21, 2021

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