Tartu, the second largest city in Estonia is using data from apps and social media that city residents use to conduct a full redesign of the city.
Lingering anger and frustration over the Red Line project's demise have resurfaced this summer as the Maryland Transit Administration has launched BaltimoreLink, a $135 million redesign of the city's state-run bus system.
Controversy recently swirled around the redesign of the city gate by architect Renzo Piano, who proposed a modernist structure that, some argued, is not in keeping with Malta's more baroque aesthetics.
The Bring New Orleans Back commission was calling for a "complete redesign" of the city's flood-control system, including a comprehensive program of coastal and wetland restoration, the closing of MR-GO, the relocation of pumping stations to Lake Pontchartrain, the completion of locks on the Industrial Canal, and the construction of new levees to protect New Orleans from a Category 5 storm.
As a way of generating public interest in flooding adaptation, researchers at the local Simon Fraser University held a public design contest in the autumn of last year, asking residents to submit their own redesign of the city with the sea level rise in mind.
SHANGHAI, July 9 - When officials drew up the blueprints for the redesign of this city in the early 1980's, nary a skyscraper punctuated the low-slung horizon, whose buildings mostly dated from the decades of Western control early in the last century.
The study of Beirut looks at the redesign of Martyrs Squaree, the city's primary public space, in the aftermath of the civil war and the ongoing reconstruction efforts to rebuild the center.
To combat all this, a redesign of areas of the city started.
As Le Corbusier long dreamed of rebuilding the centre of Paris, so Tange worked long and hard on a comprehensive, and highly contentious, redesign of his country's capital city.
We're working on solutions here in the United States, exploring the possibilities of system redesign in six cities and one state.
