Rethinking Urban Excellence: The Hidden Bias Behind Global Rankings
Every year, as the calendar edges toward its close, a familiar ritual unfolds: the publication of global city rankings. Newspapers
For two years, I worked in a team with great colleagues on a planned city extension for the Greater Accra Region in Ningo Prampram. When completed, it can house 1.5 million people. But what means completed? And – what is the role of a western planner in the development of an African city? I chose to avoid discussions of form and look and focus on what infrastructures a city needs to be functional and resilient.
The international new town day. organized by the International New Town Institute INTI was the first occasion to show this.
Every year, as the calendar edges toward its close, a familiar ritual unfolds: the publication of global city rankings. Newspapers
On September 10, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman openly admitted that Saudi Arabia’s housing prices had risen to “unacceptable levels.”
The 61st ISOCARP World Planning Congress has come to a close. Time to reflect. What lingered with me was not
Recently the New York Times reported that there is a flight from the cities to suburbian locations in the wake
When in 1910 Adolf Loos gave his lecture and subsequently
Invited by TU Vienna and sponsored by STO Stiftung, I
For more than a century, architectural education has wrestled with
What Western Planning Misses About Urban Life in Africa For