Transforming Urban Precinct � An Urban Design Perspective of Asilmetta, Visakhapatnam

An Economist=s Perspective on Urban Design

Ecological Design of Urban Landscape

Paying attention to the spatial placement of the elements (man-made or natural) based on the landscape pattern and ecological processes in urban design would have a considerable impact on both human and the nature. In a way that the discords in the placement of patchs in respect to each other, or in respect to visual corridors and urban matrixes lead to the unwanted results in the cities. The e...

Transforming food systems through food sovereignty: an Australian urban context Transforming Food Systems through Food Sovereignty: an Australia Urban Context

This paper draws on La Via Campesina’s definition of food sovereignty and its potential for reconceptualising food as a basic human right within the dominant Australian food discourse. We argue that the educative value that emerges from urban food production in Australia stems from the action of growing food and its capacity to transform individuals’ social and environmental concerns over food ...

Toward an Urban Design Manifesto

It is about six years since Donald Appleyard and I completed "Toward a New Urban Design Manifesto."In large measure it was student-generated, growing out of afirst-time course that Donald and I gave, "Theories of Urban Form." The course examined the physical forms of urban development associated with particular periods, or with design movements, or with ideas about urban form-ideas such as the ...

Induced Demand: An Urban and Metropolitan Perspective