How Jane Jacobs continues to be an influential force in city planning

2016-05-04T14:19:00-04:00

She would ask us to look at the consequences of these sub-economies for the city – for its people, its neighbourhoods, and the visual orders involved...Talking with Jacobs, it became clear that community battles were, for her, simply part of a wider inquiry as she sought to better understand, and develop concepts for, the role of cities in the economy.

And if you haven't already noticed it, there's a special Google Doodle celebrating Jacobs' 100th birthday.

Bjarke Ingels wants to "make the world of the future more like our dreams”

2015-05-13T10:21:00-04:00

Striking a balance between Steve Jobs’ product-launching gravitas and the bounding playfulness of a TED-talker, Bjarke Ingels presented a summary of his firm’s work on social infrastructure at the WIRED Business Conference in New York on Tuesday. Instead of displaying static plan sections and a PowerPoint from the last presidential administration, Ingels peppered his talk with creative imagery and a three minute, bass-groove laden video (replete with jaunty squiggle-style animations over live people) illustrating the underlying concepts of “The Dryline.”

The projects that Ingels briefly highlighted, including the Danish National Maritime Museum, the Hellerup Gymnasium, and the Vancouver House all explored how to integrate and amplify the social dynamics of a given space by encouraging greater connectivity among likely inhabitants. This was done in some places by innovatively inverting expectations of what a space should be (converting a dock into a museum, for example) or by creating...

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How Jane Jacobs continues to be an influential force in city planning

Bjarke Ingels wants to "make the world of the future more like our dreams”