This paper is focused on the relevance of the idea of "void" for the development of landscape urbanism.
Looking to the future, Louv advocates the development of green urbanism towards the "zoopolis" - the city conceived as part of the natural world, sustaining wildlife, with schoolchildren escaping the sanitised classroom and learning directly from nature.
This article provides a brief overview of the history and development of Malaysian urbanism that set the stage for the creation of Putrajaya and critically examines its claims of being 'green'.
In part this has to be attributable to his Manichean and partial view of urbanism and urban development.
The Aga Khan Program's focus on the Islamic world provides an illuminating lens through which to examine the challenges of creating coherence between universal themes of development, urbanism, environmental concerns and land use for urban designers, policymakers and planners across the globe.
Diane Davis is Professor of Urbanism and Development at the Harvard Graduate School of Design.
The Mexico project, headed by Forsyth and Diane Davis (professor of urbanism and development), grew out of a new commitment by the Mexican government to dense, sustainable and affordable urban housing.
Neoliberalism in Jordan provides the State with a measure of elasticity, and the ability to, under the premise of reform, reinvent its role and responsibility in the project of development and the political economy of urbanism in Amman.
Transit-oriented development (TOD) has gained popularity worldwide as a sustainable form of urbanism by concentrating developments near a transit station so as to minimize auto-dependency and maximize ridership.
He specializes in transnational, political, and environmental sociology; global urbanization; and expert networks of finance, development, and urbanism.
