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Activating the Edges: Designing Streets for Life, Connection, and Community
2025-04-29 10:53          855 Brannan is a large community filling a city block in San Francisco, yet the ground floor is alive with human-scaled activity: Shops, homes, lofts, restaurants, offices, plazas, and entri...
Resilient by Design: Reimagining Coastal Cities in the Face of Climate Change
2025-04-15 14:29   “As the seas rise, so too must our imagination.” — Kate Orff, SCAPE Landscape Architecture 1. A World in Flux: Climate Change and the Vulnerability of Coasts For centuries, proximity to the sea w...
Mariam Kamara: Redefining Architecture for the Real World
2025-04-04 07:28                                                                                             Architecture Rooted in Culture, Climate, and Community     Mariam Kamara does not design building...
Placemaking: Shaping Cities, Communities, and Connections
2025-04-03 11:58   Marrakesh (Source: Kazuo Ota_unsplash.com)     The Evolution of Placemaking     The concept of placemaking is not new—it has deep roots in urban history and human-centered design. Ancient c...
Embracing the Wild: How Messy Gardens and Untidy Edges Cultivate Beauty, Biodiversity, and Resilience
2025-04-02 09:34   The French parterre garden at Wrest Park (Source: english-heritage.org.uk)       For centuries, gardens have been a reflection of human control over nature. The formal, clipped hedges of 17th...
Tactical Urbanism: Transforming Cities One Small Intervention at a Time
2025-03-31 15:08   “First life, then spaces, then buildings. The other way around never works.” – Jan Gehl       Introduction     Modern cities face numerous challenges: traffic congestion, lack of public spac...

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