As usual, Lebbeus Woods’ weblog is featuring stunning topics: the sudden rise of informal settlements in Haiti’s capital Port-au-Prince, due to the societal collapse after the earthquake. For example, a golf course instantly turns into a refugee site with hundreds of tents. The same happens in the case of an airport. The original material can [...]
November 2010 Merten Nefs visited Shenzhen and Hong Kong, in the Chinese Pearl River Delta. On behalf of the Deltametropolis Association he presented the SprintCity project at an international conference in Shenzhen and spoke to several professionals in Hong Kong to learn about their strategies for development of public transport nodes and the surrounding areas. [...]
In 2004, the city of Maastricht approved the Belvédère master plan, concerning the grand scale redevelopment of an old industrial area, at the fringe of the old city center. The site is characterized by the old Sphinx factory (porcelain and ceramic products), as well as the central dock, where ships used to unload raw materials [...]
Hong Kong Island is a perfect example of a truly 3-dimensional city, in contrast with sprawled and spread-out cities. Not only is every square meter of urban soil used to its full potential, by building 40 storey buildings or higher. Public space in the central areas of Central, Wan Chai, Admiralty and Sheung Wan are [...]
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