Urban Design

Urban design specialists say the Auckland Council needs to move more quickly to cut traffic, from the fifty million dollar network of sidestreets upgraded to be more appealing to pedestrians. Audio

The Array of Things is an audacious plan to turn Chicago into a smart city with a remote network of up to 1000 sensors. Charlie Catlett is its lead investigator. Audio

Landscape and urban design consultant, founder of Greenstone Design, and author of Landscape and Urban Design for Health and Well-Being: Using Healing, Sensory and Therapeutic Gardens Audio

In his book 'Happy City, Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design' Charles Montgomery argues that cities can be happy places to live. With the world's urban population forecast to nearly 5 billion… Audio

The "Wikihouse" is a new global open source building movement that's trying to revolutionise how we build our homes. Designers Danny Squires and Martin Luff are hoping wikihouses can play a part in… Audio

For the first time in history, more than half the world's population lives in cities. What draws people to them? What changes when people live closer together? Investigating the future of our urban… Audio

Dr Armstrong is the co-director of the Advanced Virtual And Technological Architectural Research (AVATAR) Group and a senior lecturer at the School of Architecture & Construction at The University of… Audio