Sharon’s Blog is about how a concept of “Garden City” work in Neighborhood design and she has also mentioned five principles of a good neighborhood design. which are, a radius of walking distance of 400m, clear center, identifiable edges, street pattern and diversity of buildings and people. She has well explained Ebenezer Howard’s town-country magnet concept. Here in…
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In Jackson’s blog Vertical City – skyscraper become recognition to the world, he introduced the history of skyscrapers from 1880s to present. The height has increased from 10 floors to 50 floors. And the purpose of skyscraper had been diverse in the recent years. He researched on the cases in Shanghai, China and Dubai, and…
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In Ryan’s blog, he mentions the spread of private car ownership which started in 1960s, it brought convenience to the daily lives of people. But at the same time, it caused a lot of problems such as; air pollution, noise pollution and they all have negative effects on peoples health. Ryan then focused on the…
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Kelly’s Blog is about the concept of “New Urbanism” and stating main principles to make an ideal city to live in. She has highlighted, how new urbanism is focused on strong community connections and easily accessible and human scale spaces or building within the city. After the World War II, The modernist urbanism emerged. During…
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Ryan’s Blog about Sustainable Transport and Health concern deals with one of the mainstream issue of the last decade. Since 1993, issues of sustainability and development have brought out debates related to population, industry, energy consumption, global warming and pollution, and urbanism. As he stated, transport is a huge contributor to air pollution, accounting for…
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Adem’s blog focusses on community participation and how it is used to improve urban design. He quotes Sanoff (1999), who states that “the environment works better if the people affected by its changes are actively involved in its creation.” This particularly stood out to me as a strong ethos to abide by when designing or…
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    Reason for Vanity Height I totally agree with Ryan’s point on the non-occupiable ‘vanity height’.  It is a shame how those skyscrapers being recognised as supertalls even though they have as high as 29% of their overall height being some useless structures. It is noticeable that after 2010, China and the United Arab…
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Sharon’s blog post discusses the relationship of how urban neighbourhoods have developed at the time of the Garden City movement. The movement’s principles became the design basis for many of the traditional new towns in the UK. Howard’s magnet illustrates the differences between country and city living at the time and how his 3rd magnet…
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