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Urban design is an approach to the design of buildings and the spaces between them that focuses on specific design processes and outcomes. In addition to designing and shaping the physical features of towns, cities , and regional spaces, urban design considers 'bigger picture' issues of economic, social and environmental value and social design.
The Urban Design Lab leads diverse public initiatives and prioritizes collaboration with underserved local communities. The UDL has worked with New York residents on several projects covering: environmental remediation, high-performance and green building design, micro-infrastructure, public health, and sustainable urban development.
Sustainable architecture has become a crucial aspect of modern urban development, with Barcelona at the forefront of this movement. Barcelona, a city already known for its unique architecture, has numerous innovative architectural projects combining cutting-edge design with eco-friendly technologies and materials.
[8] The project presented innovative design solutions to urban problems with an interactive exhibit that allowed visitors to pull down brightly colored banners to display an issue and its solution. Banners were color-coded with accessibility issues in orange, community in pink, economy in light green, and sustainability in dark green.
This is a list of megaprojects, which may be defined in the following categories: . Projects that cost more than US$1 billion and attract a large amount of public attention because of substantial impacts on communities, the natural and built environment, and budgets.
A view of the Kendeda Building from the adjacent EcoCommons. The Kendeda Building for Innovative Sustainable Design is a multi-disciplinary, non-departmental academic building on the main campus of the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, Georgia, United States.
UrbanLab's projects range in scale from houses such as the Hennepin, Illinois, Residence, [1] mixed-use residential and commercial buildings such as Upton’s Naturals Headquarters, [2] public open spaces such as the Smart Museum of Art Courtyard [3] at the University of Chicago, and large scale, urban design projects such as Growing Water in Chicago [4] and a masterplan (13 square kilometers ...
An innovative and cross-disciplinary centre, CUT has, since 1994, pioneered research into the complex intersections of technologies, infrastructures and urban development. CUT has pioneered the 'socio-technical’ view of cities emphasising flow, the material bases of mobility, and the social construction of buildings and infrastructures.