Colour in Washington DC
Grand avenues of imposing marble and stone buildings form the normal international image of Washington DC. Yet within the fabric of the...
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Frederick Rickmann
Lille in France is Blessed with Streets on a Human Scale
Tourists flock to Lille in the north of France, not because of any grandiose masterpiece of architecture or theme park. They come because...
Frederick Rickmann
STREET ART AT A CROSSROAD
Long gone are the days when street art was synonymous with graffiti and condemned as vandalism. A new group of people who identify...
Judy Huang
設計是改善人類社會、促進自由平等的重要推手 Design is the Bridge That Connects Liberty and Equality
經常有人問我：「設計」是什麼？ 簡單的回答：「設計」就是溝通。 這麼說吧：市面上銷售的商品是怎麼樣被製造出來的呢？ 假設有一個人想要創業賣一件商品，他找了個工業設計師來並把這個點子告訴他，這時工業設計師聆聽客戶（創業家）的需求後，以其專業的設計思維結合大量生產的工程概念、充...
Frederick Rickmann
DUNDEE AT CROSSROADS
Date: September 30, 2015 By Frederick Rickmann Situated on the north bank of the River Tay in Scotland, the city of Dundee has probably...
Frederick Rickmann
CREATIVE COURTYARDS
Berlin is one of the most dynamic of world cities. The core is a high density urban environment. It is formed into city blocks and the...
Thinking Urban
EGYPT’S NEW PLANS FOR DECENTRALIZATION
Date: January 19, 2015 By Nehal El-Sherif Numerous governments have tried to re-arrange Cairo’s urban planning by getting rid of many...
Thinking Urban
THE DEAD END OF CAIRO HOUSING
Date: January 13, 2015 By Nehal El-Sherif Cairo is one of the most crowded cities worldwide with an estimated population of 20 million,...
Frederick Rickmann
Moray Place in Edinburgh
There are few cities in the world that have managed to create such an incredibly well functioning and harmonic city environment. All...
Thinking Urban
WHEN IT RAINS IN CAIRO
Date: January 5, 2015 By Nehal El-Sherif It rarely rains in Cairo. In the last days of November, it rained for less than 30 minutes for...
Frederick Rickmann
How many new towns have that?
This is not Hallstadt am See in Austria. It is Hallstadt See, the Chinese rip off of the Austrian village. A true copy in southern China...
Frederick Rickmann
WEATHER HAS A NOISE
It’s fascinating to think about the sounds created by the weather. There are the obvious stormy conditions when the wind can howl and the...
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