Urban Planning

City of Wausau officials and a team of architects and graduate students from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee on Monday will present development concepts for 16 acres of riverfront property in the city. The city in June 2011 purchased the 16 acres between Bridge and Scott streets for $2.6 million. Later that month, the city’s Planning [...]

Abu Dhabi: Residents of future urban infrastructure projects in Abu Dhabi will enjoy the cool shade of trees near their residential buildings and intersections where they wait to cross the road. Landscaping in future projects will be in places where people frequent, a senior official told Gulf News yesterday. It will also save a lot [...]

At the moment a lot of architectural work has been going into creating buildings, spaces and technologies that do not produce carbon emissions as a way to halt the effect of climate change. In the context of urban planning, vertical forests, vertical farming and green roofs have made their way into our cities and offer [...]

What springs to mind when you think of Cairo? The gentility of Zamalek? The bustle of downtown? The mercantile rush of Mohandiseen? The laid-back charm of Cairos original suburbs, Maadi and Heliopolis? If so, at least in terms of where people actually live, youre missing out on the real Cairo. According to urban planner and [...]

Hunt Engineers, Architects and Land Surveyors, PC has hired Nicolette Barber for its planning staff at the company, 100 Hunt Center, Big Flats. Barber, a certified planner, will provide consulting services to clients on urban, city or regional planning. She is a graduate of Columbia University where she received her Masters degree in urban planning. [...]

WATERTOWN, Mass.–(EON: Enhanced Online News)–Sasaki Associates, Inc., a firm built upon a rich foundation of excellence, innovation, and collaboration, will receive the 2012 American Planning Association’s National Planning Excellence Award for a Planning Firm. Sasaki is being recognized for the enduring high quality of their project work and for their leadership in charting the future [...]

I am pleasantly surprised at our audience tonight, Matt Naud, the citys environmental coordinator, remarked at the start of the event. In addition to Naud and Graham, five other local leaders took turns speaking. That included Richard Norton, an urban planning professor at the University of Michigan; Laura Rubin, executive director of the Huron River [...]

Charlottesville, Virginia, a historic city of more than 43,000 people and once the home of three US presidents Thomas Jefferson, James Madison and James Monroe now has a Sikh American mayor. Satyendra S. Huja, initially elected to the Charlottesville City Council in 2007 and reelected in November 2011, was chosen mayor unanimously by the five-member [...]

“It’s something to think about when you’re stuck in traffic.” So said Los Angeles-based artist Chris Burden at this mornings press conference inaugurating Metropolis II–his eye-popping fantastical collision of the fine and decorative arts, assemblage and, hey, urban planning thrown in–at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Five years in the making, the work [...]