The Urbanophile. Tactical Urbanism. Citiscope. Intelligent Cities. Jane Jacobs. The Death and Life of Great American Cities.
Planetizen | Urban Planning, Design and Development Network. BLDGBLOG. Megalopolis | Le journal du très grand Paris. Paris est sa banlieue. Urban Omnibus. Project for Public Spaces. Streetsblog New York City. Edible Geography. Emergent Urbanism, or ‘bottom-up planning’ I was asked to write an article around ‘bottom-up planning’ by Architectural Review Australia a while ago. It was published in the last issue, and I’m re-posting here. ‘Bottom-up’ is hardly the most elegant phrase, but I suspect you know what I mean. Either way, I re-cast it in the article as ‘emergent urbanism’ which captured a little more of the non-planning approaches I was interested in (note also the blog of same name, which I didn’t know about beforehand).
It partly concerns increased transparency over the urban planning process but also, and perhaps more interestingly, how citizens might be able to proactively engage in the creation of their cities. And for those of you outside Australia, there are a few subtitles required to read this. And regarding this broad idea of emergent urbanism, a particularly inspirational recent project over this way has been ‘Renew Newcastle’ (Newcastle, New South Wales that is) initiated by Marcus Westbury. Yimby = Yes In My Backyard. L'oubli du beurre comme stratégie urbaine. INFRASTRUCTURIST. Blueprint America. TRANSIT-CITY / URBAN & MOBILE THINK TANK. Géographie de la ville en guerre - BLOG.