This week, the International Landscape Architecture Festival kicks off in Melbourne, Australia. The conference theme is The Square and The Park. The festival curators see a contentious issue between these two landscape typologies, which dominate our cities and haven’t changed in the past hundred years. Many cities across the world are grappling with the decision of […]
Decentralising Australian cities via high speed rail
I lived in China for over 10 years and saw the transformation of cities through the building high-speed rail connections. The first weekend of my time in China in 2005, I took a K-Train to Suzhou(about 100kms from Shanghai) to see the gardens, and it took about 55-60 minutes on the train and we passed through […]
China | more thought needed about urbanisation
Rapid urbanisation of millions of Chinese has occurred and will continue to occur over the next 25-30 years. There is a change in focus from mega-cities to smaller cities and towns as the country transitions from exports to consumerism based economy. What has changed in a urban design focus have to do with economy? In […]
Response to Sean Chiao: Planning China’s megacities
Mega-cities are becoming a hot topic in China and academics & government seems to moving on from eco-city and low carbon city to mega-city. Recently Sean Chiao, the executive vice president of China for AECOM posted Planning China’s megacities on McKinsey stating that Mega-cities need to be planned, managed in an innovative way. Scott goes […]
Low carbon cities are the way of the future for China
The Low carbon city has become a popular topic in recent times and is an important concept and idea for urban design. Developing low carbon cities is important as energy use, economy and environment are all connected and determine the prosperity of a city. A low-carbon city is more complex than using alternative energy such […]