How to design stronger, more resilient communities : Lessons from New York to South Africa at the #cocreateDESIGN FESTIVAL-2019
Ifeoma Ebo and Amira Osman present inspiring lectures on building community resilience.
Posts Tagged 'new york'
Learning in New York : New approaches to delivering affordable housing
Our visit to New York City was focussed on understanding various aspects of affordable housing development, from design and development to the policies which shape the application process.
From the desk of Future Cape Town III: Why letting the ideas in, and out, makes sense
On the subway from Brooklyn to Manhattan, Rashiq Fataar is thinking about how important the process of gathering ideas is, giving meaning to these ideas and the power of giving them wings to travel.
From the desk of Future Cape Town: Why we need a weekend getaway
Rashiq Fataar walks the streets of Durban’s CBD and cherishes the break in routine to inspire new questions and ideas about our cities.
FUTURE LAGOS | Watch: Re-Imagining the Civic Commons
What is the future of the civic commons in our cities? How can we better leverage these shared public assets to make our cities more economically competitive, livable, and just? A panel in New York unravel some of the issues faced when breathing life into public space.
FUTURE CAPE TOWN | WATCH : How to reimagine the streets of the future
In this funny and thought-provoking talk, Janette Sadik-Khan, transportation commissioner of New York City, shares projects that have reshaped street life in the 5 boroughs, including pedestrian zones in Times Square, high-performance buses and a 6,000-cycle-strong bike share. Her mantra: Do bold experiments that are cheap to try out.
FUTURE CAPE TOWN | World’s largest study on cyclist behaviour: Copenhagen to Cape Town
Copenhagenize Design Co, the international consultancy specialising in bicycle urbanism are launching a new project that will span continents and use their unique Desire Lines Analysis Tool.
World’s Best Places to live: The Global Liveability Index
The Economist Intelligence Unit’s (EIU) most recent liveability ranking shows cities in Australia, Canada, Austria, Finland and New Zealand as the ideal destinations, but is this ranking a true reflection of the cities we live in and will it be used as an instrument for strategic planning?
WATCH: How public spaces make cities work
More than 8 million people are crowded together to live in New York City. What makes it possible? In part, it’s the city’s great public spaces — from tiny pocket parks to long waterfront promenades — where people can stroll and play.
New York Waterfront gets ready for the future
Rebuild by Design, a competition which tasks teams with improving the resiliency of New York’s waterfront communities through locally-responsive, innovative design. Each proposal was required to be “flexible, easily phased, and able to integrate with existing projects in progress”.