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📣 Upcoming CNU32 Cincinnati Session Highlight: "Scaling up the New Urbanism: Using State Laws to Heal Our Regions." Don't miss this vital conversation featuring our very own Opticos team member, Mitali Ganguly, alongside other experts! 📅 Date: Thursday, May 16 ⏰ Time: 10:30 - 11:45 AM ET Featuring Annie Fryman, Mitali Ganguly, Patrick Siegman, & Lisa Wise 🌆 We'll explore how state laws can be pivotal in transforming our regions to foster inclusive, sustainable urban growth. Despite the efforts of New Urbanists, our built environments often fall short, constrained by local ordinances that promote sprawl and limit affordable housing. 🏘️ This session will dive deep into the New Urbanism charter, debating crucial questions that aren't just ideals but realities. What parts of the CNU’s charter can only be realized through state laws mandating inclusive and fair-share efforts. #CNU32 #NewUrbanism #UrbanPlanning

Sustainable Living, Affordable Homes: Meeting the Challenge Together. #Call_for_abstracts The RE-DWELL — MSCA-ITN project consortium is pleased to announce the call for contributions (abstracts, visual essays, and posters) to its second and final conference, May 16-17, at the School of Architecture La Salle, Ramon Llull University, Barcelona, Spain. This conference aims to showcase the network's work and engage with external participants from academia, policy and practice. The conference will provide a space for debate to discuss present-day issues and future visions about the societal challenge of providing sustainable and affordable housing in Europe. The actors include architects, urban planners, engineers, economists, sociologists, policymakers, housing associations, housing cooperatives, construction companies, local authorities and private investors, among others. #REDWELL #sustainability #housingaffordability #sociology #socialhousing #participation #MSCA #ResearchImpactEU #H2020 #Sustainablehousing #transdisciplinarity #sustainabledevelopment https://lnkd.in/e8D3QJhY

"The world goes urban". The world is urbanising at a rapid pace and by 2030, more than a third of the world's population will not only live in cities, but in cities with a population of more than half a million. This development begs the question: how must cities adapt and evolve in response to crises and extreme events such as pandemics, heatwaves, digitisation or wars? How do architects, engineers, landscape architects and citizens work together and think together to design and develop sustainable cities? As cities harbour tensions and potential, and are set to become the most common human habitat, it is vital that these challenges are addressed in the light of current trends. In my talk, which is part of ETH Zürich's public lecture series "Treffpunkt Science City", I will explore themes, concepts and case studies such as urban sprawl, smart cities, global cities and the "15-minute city" to discuss the challenges and opportunities we face in living in future urban environments. Date: 24.03.24 Location: Campus Hönggerberg, Zürich Time: 12.00 to 12.45 Language: German #fcl #futurecities #human #habitats

Join Jennifer Koster on June 5th where she will be on two panels discussing two very important topics: 2.1 From Silo to System: Creating the real estate we need AND 2.5 Second Life for Buildings: Adaptive Re-Use, Circularity and Approaches to Reducing Waste.

"Families are the aggregates of cities." New interview episode (182I) with Hon Ted Baillieu Former Premier Victoria about urban retrofitting, split personalities, regreening and many more on the What is The Future for Cities? podcast! Find out more in the episode and share it, links are in the first comment. #retrofit #urbangreening

In a look towards the future, schools in Barcelona underwent design modifications in a pilot initiative, transforming them into climate shelters accessible to the community. Dive into the study analyzing their success in the Journal of Urban Health here: https://ow.ly/PWkn50QZqwX The program’s content closely aligns with the upcoming Fitwel Certification System v3 strategies with attention to planting more trees, increased shading, accessible water fountains, using more natural elements for surfaces, and technical improvements for the thermal conditions of school buildings. Learn more: https://lnkd.in/eq7JyhM5

Two years ago I started the interesting research on collaborative living practices across Europe, together with Emma Jo Griffith and Federico Savini we wrote this paper based on 100 collaborative housing practices. In the paper we argue that collaborative housing is generally defined by what it is not: it is neither solely private tenure nor fully state-run public housing. As a result, housing studies have not fully captured the great diversity of collaborative housing forms. This article develops a complex typology of collaborative housing based on an analysis of 100 cases from Switzerland, Italy, Spain, Austria, the Netherlands, and Germany. We identify differentiating features across three key dimensions: the architecture of the estate, the institutional set-up of its property rights, and the values motivating the collective inhabiting and managing of the estate. We then apply our typology using the case of the 4Stelle Hotel, a collaborative housing estate in Rome. This study lays the foundations for future international comparative research that moves beyond the reductive understanding of collaborative housing as property sharing. Read the paper here: https://lnkd.in/d7vC5b5W

🚀 Ready to see how adaptive reuse is reshaping the future of real estate? 🏢✨ 📅 Join us on September 18th, 2024, 🕒 at 4 PM (UTC) for an Online Seminar: Adaptive Reuse/Repurposing Buildings. 🏢✨ 💡🌍 We’ve gathered a panel of world-renowned experts to explore this critical topic: Patrice Derrington (Columbia University) Sara Wilkinson (University of Technology Sydney) Samantha Organ (University of the West of England) Heather Dodd (Savage Dodd Architects) Tanja Tyvimaa (City of Tampere) 🕒 Duration: 90 minutes 🔗 Register now:   https://lnkd.in/dwtxMdX5 ✨ But that’s not all! ✨ After the seminar, join our 30-minute breakout sessions for exclusive networking with professionals and experts in the field. Stay tuned for more updates—we look forward to seeing you there! 💡 Don’t miss out on this unique opportunity—register now! 👇 #AdaptiveReuse #RealEstate #Sustainability

An open tool to apply New European Bauhaus principles in heritage projects 📣 At #HeritACT the University College Dublin team has used the NEB Compendium Compass (NEBC) framework to explore the different #NEB heritage activation projects that align with its values and working principles. Go through the map and discover projects across Europe that enhance social and cultural transformation in architecture and urban spaces. https://lnkd.in/dgrzqnan And complement the list! Add your initiative and help us enrich the map ;) https://arcg.is/0TL8LH --- 📌What's the NEB Compendium Compass (NEBC)? It's a ‘guiding framework’ applying the #NewEuropeanBauhaus principles and criteria. It guides change makers in bringing out a cultural and aesthetic dimension to the European green deal, particularly with regard to the built environment. The main idea behind the initiative is that the transition to a sustainable society is also a cultural shift based on empathy, compassion, creativity and shifting paradigms. Art and culture will play a key role in aiding this transition. https://lnkd.in/d66pTfZq

38th Ne(lesson). Urban Design Progressive developed(ing) society(ies) are characterized by one apparent infrastructure improvement with all its primary users, artifacts and impacts. In which of the fifteen countries I recently explored is this photo taken?