Open Directory - Science: Social Sciences: Urban and Regional Planning: Projects
See also: - An experimental town in the desert of Arizona, built to embody Paolo Soleri's concept of arcology - the fusion of architecture with ecology. Theory, workshops, events, images, visitor information. - Presents workshops, studies, and investigations with practical implementations at the emerging city of Auroville, India. - A redevelopment proposal for the waterfront of the City of Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. - Information about the planned city in India designed by Le Corbusier. - Information about an organized effort to ensure the preeminence of the Chicago Metropolis in the 21st century. Includes an overview of the project, reports, contact information, and mailing list. - Essays, links, and photos about the Florida planned community developed by the Walt Disney Corporation. - Conducts research on the rapid urbanization of China. Summary, news, documents, and project timeline. - Analysis and categorization of interactive media and public art projects that contribute to the rediscovery and revitalization of urban public spaces. - A project by Mirjam Struppek and Arika Adachi based on an entry in the competition "Semiotic Fields and Attractors: the rediscovery of the Kaki River in Nagaoka, Japan." - Letchworth Garden City Heritage Foundation provides news and information about the world's first garden city. Includes a history of its development and guide. - Information, analysis, and photographs of this archetypal postwar American suburb. - Personal stories about urban renewal in New Haven, Connecticut in the 1950s and 1960s. - An attack on the future-scenario style of urban planning. In urban futures scenarios, the range of "acceptable" future cities is made visible. The Amsterdam (Netherlands) study TVA is used as an example of how such studies limit urban futures. - Details about the large master planned city under development near Seoul, South Korea. - Former industrial town now a neighborhood of Chicago. Events and program calendars, location map, and foundation activities. - New town in Fairlawn, New Jersey designed in 1929. - One of three Scottish Executive funded Pathfinder URCs, implementing a plan to transform the physical appearance of the community. - A plan focusing on issues in the Redfern Waterloo areas of New South Wales, including redevelopment opportunities, community safety, and social programs. - A partnership between public and private sector agencies who affect the future of the Scottish Borders. Encourages organizational cooperation and community development. - New urbanist coastal beach town. Accommodations, entertainment, restaurants, street map, and education. - Master plan, guiding principles, and conservation goals for development of the Irvine Ranch in Orange County, California. - Information on the planning process, a calendar of meetings and events, a library of documents, and a community feedback program. - The City of Wolfsburg in Germany is a typical example of planned urban development. Four different development stages are illustrated. - Overview of the Jackson Place Redevelopment Plan in Richmond, Virginia. - Includes a brief description of a method of providing more vegetation in high-density city centers. - A modernist utopian design for a city of the future. - A mixed-use, pedestrian friendly, new urbanist community in West Des Moines, Iowa. Information on location and plans. - Images, interviews and other materials relating to Greenbelt, Maryland, a New Deal-era planned community in the suburbs of Washington, D.C. - A partnership between The City of Edinburgh Council and Scottish Enterprise Edinburgh and Lothian working to regenerate 140 hectares of brownfield land in north Edinburgh on the shores of the Firth of Forth. - History and profiles of planned cities in publicly editable encyclopedia.
