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This short course in urban design might interest some of you - taking place in July.

Tomorrow, 12/11, we will be part of this remarkable event, organised by Leeds Social Sciences Institute and Œcumene Spaces For Dignity, in the debate session with Nassar Tarew and Rasha Arous. >>we encourage you to register!! It is time to question how we deal with the ground and how many initiatives exclude relevant players on project sites as part of the inherited colonial bias. It is also time to join forces to set this imbalance straight, especially now. Diverse worldwide protests and trends in political choices actually voice the frustration of common people of being underserved and sidelined by major mechanisms. It is important to tackle this with honesty. We are eager to share our hands-on experience in empowering local communities to contribute to this debate with alternative approaches inspired to being fairer to the place.

Indigenous Wisdom in Modern Urban Design A Research-Based Studio Model Approach https://lnkd.in/gXKn8WaK

Topic: Adapting tactical urbanism to benefit society and policy makers: a case o

To be mentioned in such a important work is worth all the effort and emotions it takes to create good urban environment in harsh realities of Polish capital markets. Miasteczko Siewierz Jeziorna is growing steady, proving that #NewUrbanism works globally

University of Cyprus: New research project by the Society and Urban Form (SURF) Lab of the Department of Architecture of the University of Cyprus The objectives of the project include the co-production of a common framework for the implementation of urban workshops aimed at education, highlighting the importance of social and political participation in sustainable urban governance. Read more 👇 #EOC #EOCmembersNews

Which factors play a role in apartment residents' attitudes regarding place attachment? My colleagues and I undertook a research project to figure out the answer. please view our newly published paper in the "International Journal of Architectural Engineering & Urban Planning" Journal. It is available to download via link: https://lnkd.in/gnfUxNVK The library study identified five major components affecting place attachment: perceptual-cognitive, social, historic-cultural, physical, and economic factors. According to a field study that involved 73 Tehran mid-rise apartment dwellers, factors such as the environment, socioculture, perception-cognition, financial, and historical influences are important. The study concluded a global urban-property spatial scale ( city, community, and neighborhood) for home connectivity and added two sub-scales ( building & unit) for apartment location. The study highlights the relationship between a sense of belonging, influencing factors, and spatial scales, and concludes that residents' place attachment is a protracted process influenced by sociocultural settings.

Here's to the authorative comprehensive guide of New Urbanism: its history, methodology, practice, and, noteworthy, an extensive analysis of its intellectual and development experience within the Polish context. Why is this book important? Because Urban Design - as a discipline - almost doesn't exist in Poland. It somehow "happens" (mostly not) inbetween urban planning processes and building permit procedures. No school teaches it. Few developers recognize its communicative power - city officials even less. Any interactive relationship between public space and real estate development is often a matter of negligence, indifference, rarely a result of thoughtful coordination between decisionmakers and stakeholders. Clearly enough, everybody touts its importance on every respected real estate conference ( October in PL has plenty of those), but few engage in fostering common interests which can be played out on the public square. In practice, it takes conscious political will, a strong belief in the common good, considerable skill, and a determination which delivers, utimately, much higher economic gains for both sides. This book delivers exemplary planning and urban design tools to achieve this kind of sustainable urbanism, meaningful places, and valuable neighborhoods, tested in the unforgiving realms of the real estate sector. In context of the new Polish planning legislature which has kicked lately everybody out of their comfort zone (and which has given us city planners plenty of headeaches, apart from work), I would opt to get back to the essence of what sustainable cities really are and regain a confidence that, as a society, we are still able to achieve a quality of everyday life in our built and evolving environment. The book highlights two of our realised projects which have been, and will remain, a continuing discovery of possibilities and hard limits, in Poland, of these kind of interactions between regulators and developers: Miasteczko Siewierz Jeziorna by ALTASA and #GdyniaZachód by #HOSSA SA , arguably among the largest land development projects in Poland of the last decade. With congrats to Michal Dominczak for this achievement and making his book available online, a nod to Lizz Plater Zyberk and my past colleagues at DPZ CoDESIGN, and kudos to past + present collaborators at Mycielski Architecture & Urbanism (MAU). Thank you Michał !Happy Birthday 😊

BS"D Tactical Urbanism is a short-term, low-cost, creative, measurable, and bottom-up intervention in public space to accommodate community needs in expression in public space. This idea is closely related to children as children in urban villages tend to take tactical action by converting unused spaces in the city into spaces for playgrounds. The characteristics of the space needed to accommodate children's games are generally characterized by a space that is free and flexible. Tactical Urbanism for Kids aims to create an identity and placemaking for schools, encouraging children to be more active during recess. To achieve this, the design should provide a playground for children to play their accustomed games, such as hide and sneak, London Bridge, Polisi Maling, Domikado Eska, and Kejar-Kejaran. By considering the customs of children in each country, tactical urbanism can be more effective. Classical games like Petak Umpat, Ular Naga, Polisi Maling, Domikado Eska, and Kejar-Kejaran can be played without playground equipment, allowing children to explore and engage with their surroundings. Together with Kevin Lo and Natania Nysa Pertiwi NS, this paper was published on the 4th of July 2024 in Border: Jurnal Arsitektur and dedicated to Tamar Kedem Siman Tov Z"L who unlocked the secret of anonymity. Here is the link to the publication: https://lnkd.in/gCrURxD5

PENDING… Urban Amnesia (UA) Project: refers to the phenomenon where cities and their inhabitants forget or neglect the cultural, architectural, and historical elements of their urban environments. This can happen due to rapid urban development, modernization, or the erasure of older structures and traditions to make way for new infrastructure. The term highlights the disconnection between a city’s past and its present, leading to a loss of collective memory about the significance of certain places, neighborhoods, or landmarks. Urban amnesia can manifest in the disappearance of historical buildings, the loss of communal spaces, or the diminishing recognition of a city's original character and heritage. The phenomenon is often criticized because it can strip a city of its identity, disrupt community ties, and contribute to a homogenized urban landscape that lacks depth and historical continuity. Revitalizing interest in a city's past through preservation, adaptive reuse, and cultural programming can help combat urban amnesia by reconnecting people to their history and heritage.