Design thinking has come out to the mainstream in both urban design and innovation this year, as we have written about in several articles. Within the field of urban design, Rory Hyde, curator of contemporary architecture and urbanism at London’s Victoria and Albert museum, discusses in the video below, why he thinks citizens will play… Continue reading The Future of Urban Design
Category: Urban Development
Multimodal Transport and Railway Systems – An Overview
Dear readers, a few months ago we have started a series of articles about multimodal transport and railway systems with a post about King´s Cross station in London. Since then we have published seven more articles, and today we finish the series with this summary overview. The articles in the series are dedicated to analysing … Continue reading Multimodal Transport and Railway Systems – An Overview
Innovation Districts at Future of Places Conference
In June 2014, the Brookings Institute released The Rise of Innovation Districts, a new report analysing the emerging trend of a new urban model. We wrote an article about the new report last year. Innovation districts is a recent trend in urban planning that has emerged as a new model to stimulate economic growth in… Continue reading Innovation Districts at Future of Places Conference
Multimodal Transport and Railway Systems – Arlanda Express
Arlanda Express is a public-private partnership purpose built rail link between Stockholm Central Station and Arlanda Airport in Sweden. It takes 20 minutes to travel the 39 kilometre line. Plans for an airport rail link from the central business district of Stockholm and the airport was launched in the early 1980s and Arlanda Express was… Continue reading Multimodal Transport and Railway Systems – Arlanda Express
Joan Clos Message on how to Build Better Cities
Last week, McKinsey and UN Habitat published an essay by Joan Clos, on how we can build better cities. In the essay he points out that in the economic history of humanity, urbanization has always been an accelerator of growth and development, and we are now in the process of massive urbanization. Already 55 per… Continue reading Joan Clos Message on how to Build Better Cities
Innovative Sustainable Re-development – Hammarby Sjostad
For this week´s case study, we will present Hammarby Sjöstad, one of the biggest urban development projects in Stockholm in recent time, located at the perimeter of the inner city. The old harbour and industrial area was aimed to be transformed into a modern neighbourhood, and because of the location the design was kept intentionally… Continue reading Innovative Sustainable Re-development – Hammarby Sjostad
Matija Derk on the need for Innovation Environments
Matija Derk is a Senior Advisor with Bearing and has a background as Assistant Minister of Regional Development in Croatia. During his time in Government, he was responsible for preparation of all strategic documents necessary for the use of EU funds in the financial period 2007-2013, as well as in the period 2014-2020. This included… Continue reading Matija Derk on the need for Innovation Environments
Multimodal Transport and Railway Systems – Denver Union Station
This weeks case study is the Denver Union Station, in Colorado, USA, a multimodal transit development located in lower downtown Denver. The article has been developed together with Donna Rubinoff, MD at Sustainability Advisors Ltd. Denver is the capital and the biggest city in Colorado. In mid-20th century the economy in Denver was focused around… Continue reading Multimodal Transport and Railway Systems – Denver Union Station
Multimodal Transport and Railway Systems – Stockholm Central Station
The fifth post in this series will be showing Stockholm Central Station redevelopment, a construction of a new commuter station, which relates to the Citybanan project we presented last week. Stockholm has earned a reputation as a leader in urban sustainability. In 2010, Stockholm was declared the first European Green Capital. The European Commission’s idea… Continue reading Multimodal Transport and Railway Systems – Stockholm Central Station
Multimodal Transport and Railway Systems – Citybanan, Stockholm
This week, we will be writing about the Citybanan project in Stockholm, Sweden, and it will the first of several posts related to Sweden-based projects. Sweden is known throughout the world as being a global leader of innovation with a highly skilled labour force, and a stable economy. The country’s competitiveness rests on distinct business environment… Continue reading Multimodal Transport and Railway Systems – Citybanan, Stockholm