In more than 25 years of practice, I have worked on projects that reached four billion dollars in cost. In all that time, urbanism never came up in a meeting with a developer or an authority. No brief asked for it. No approval depended on it. Yet I have also written 17 articles on urbanism, […]
Writing academic essay – the innovative flow
Introduction Writing academic essay, the innovative flow is the challenge facing postgraduate students today and it is no longer whether they can write an essay. It’s whether they can write one that matters within constraints that seem designed to prevent exactly that. The Problem: A Postgraduate Student’s Dilemma Every postgraduate program has them: word limits […]
Architecture, Urban Planning & Urban Design Management in Practice
Introduction People often describe urban development by what gets built: buildings, streets, and public spaces. They rarely describe who manages the process, or what that management involves at each level. This piece answers that question. It traces the management work in one real development. The trail starts with a political decision to develop a site. […]
Building Without Proof: The Real History of Urban Design Theory
Table of Contents 1. What Is a Theory? 2. Four Definitions of Theory, and Where Urban Design Falls 3. Three Different Activities, One Name 4. Two Different Kinds of Claim: Form vs. Movement 5. Before Theory: The Ancient World 6. The Case-Study Problem 7. Form-Typology Theories: Linkage Theory and Collective Form 8. Growth Theories from Geography […]
Architect vs. Urban Designer: Who Actually Designs the City?
At a glance, the difference looks simple: Architect Urban Designer Scale Single building Blocks, streets, districts Output Fixed, buildable design Framework / guidelines Timeline Project-based, closes Phased, often years Focus The object The space between objects Walk down any street and you’re looking at two layers of decision-making stacked on top of each other. […]
Shishimskaya Gorka: Urban Regeneration Through Landscape, Topography and New Neighbourhood Design
Location of the development? The Shishimskaya Gorka project is located in the Uktus area of Yekaterinburg, Sverdlovsk Oblast, Russia, within the Chkalovsky District, approximately 7.4 km from the city centre. The site is well served by public transport, with trolleybus routes running along all sides except the west, which is served instead by a tram […]
Al Khabeesi headquarters commercial and office building
Al Khabeesi headquarters commercial and office building is the fifty-three article on architecture projects from practice. This project’s architectural design was completed in 2010 in the capital of UAE. The project was transferred for licensing in another city due to its location. Our consultancy firm signed an agreement with the consultant and the client to […]
Villa design, Villa Architecture of ICF system project
Villa Design, Villa Architecture of ICF system project is the fifty-sixth article on projects from practice. The villa is located in an Arabian desert country that has the characteristics of desert villa architectural design. The plot is located in a new development called the Al Warqaa 2 in the UAE of the Middle East Area. […]
Global Village Architecture, urban design project
Global Village Architecture, urban design project is the twenty-seventh article on projects from practice. The project was designed, and the urban design proposal was approved by authorities in 2009. The theme of this urban design and architecture is to create a village of traditional cultural shopping zones. The urban design project of the global village […]
Garden Quarters: Urban Regeneration and Development, Moscow
Garden Quarters location and urban context Garden Quarters (Sady Kvartala) is located in Russia, in the city of Moscow, within the Khamovniki district of the Central Administrative Okrug — an area just south-west of the historic centre, inside the Garden Ring. The site occupies roughly 14 hectares bounded by Usacheva Street and Efremova Street, close […]