October 2011

http://urbanizedfilm.com/trailer/ Review in the Guardian http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2011/oct/25/urbanized-documentary-design-7-billion?newsfeed=true

On-Line Map Resources UK - Collisions - Crime - Listed Buildings -

Crime reports / by street http://www.police.uk/ Collisions / by location http://www.crashmap.co.uk/ Listed Buildings / by location http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/ MAGIC...

GB Crime Map provides breakdown of reported incidents by month by street

http://www.police.uk/

Eight radical solutions to the housing crisis

Encourage the elderly out of big houses Freestyle planning Contain population growth Force landlords to sell or let empty properties Ban second homes Guarantee mortgage payments Live with extended...

Bosco Verticale - applying the hanging garden's of Babylon principle to the tower block

http://www.stefanoboeriarchitetti.net/?p=207Bosco

BBC Review article on the latest developments in rail technology

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/click_online/9617577.stm

Retail and parks cover freeways in latest US urban design trend

http://featuresblogs.chicagotribune.com/theskyline/2011/10/ohio-highway-cap-at-forefront-of-urban-design-trend-retail-complex-atop-columbus-expressway-offers-m.html Columbus, Ohio retail units are...

World population nudges 7 billion, with UN forecasting rise to 15 billion by end of the century

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-15459643

Bulk of global economy owned by 1318 companies with core of 147 super entitities - mostly banks

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21228354.500-revealed--the-capitalist-network-that-runs-the-world.html

Unusually heavy monsoon leads to month long flood in Bangkok

http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/shortsharpscience/2011/10/bangkok-could-be-flooded-for-a.html http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/picturegalleries/worldnews/8852807/Floods-reach-Bangkok-Thailand...

Each 1 degree centigrade rise in global temperatures eventually leads to a 20 metre increase in sea levels

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21228352.200-climate-known-sea-level-is-going-to-rise-many-metres.html

Phytopthera Lateralis identified in Devon, threatens Lawsons Cypress

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2051067/Killer-tree-disease-Phytophthora-lateralis-arrives-Plymouth.html http://www.forestry.gov.uk/phytophthora

WAN Urban Design Award 2011 Shortlist Released

https://www.worldarchitecturenews.com/index.php?fuseaction=wanappln.projectview&upload_id=17780

Debate Rages in USA over the equivalent of a Housing Market Renewal Policy

http://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2011/10/26/destroying-houses-to-save-cities/a-vision-beyond-rebuilding

Poverty rises at fastest rate in USA's suburbs

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/25/us/suburban-poverty-surge-challenges-communities.html?_r=3&hp

Eco-Cities: Global Survey 2011

This report introduces and summarises the findings of the Global Eco-Cities Survey 2011, including information about 174 recent eco-city initiatives. This builds on and expands the first global...

BBC Radio 4 Analysis - The NPPF and the emerging planning system - 45 minute programme

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/console/b015p62t

Guatemala introduces women-only buses

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/oct/14/guatemala-city-women-single-sex-buses

One in ten avoid public transport due to hygiene fears

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/8829081/One-in-ten-avoid-public-transport-due-to-hygiene-fears.html

Claim made that climate change sceptics are winning the battle for policy influence

http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/climate-change/global-warning-climate-sceptics-are-winning-the-battle-2368617.html

View road injury data for GB online - map view

http://www.crashmap.co.uk/Search

Has Margate been doomed by out of town retail development?

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/this-britain/coastal-erosion-can-a-retail-guru-save-margate-2368048.html

Model Urban Developments - list produced by the Guardian

On the list are Calgary Eindhoven The Hepworth, Wakefield Upton Rome (in Roman times) http://www.guardian.co.uk/what-future-urban-living/model-urban-developments-design-cities

New York - High Line - celebrated by BBC

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-15208873

National Planning Policy Framework - Draft - thoughts from urban designers...

Here is a collection of thoughts on the NPPF that have been developed by a number urban design pracitioners over recent weeks. Why not add your thoughts at the discussion box below?...

South Korea debates urban design as part of national branding

http://www.koreaherald.com/entertainment/Detail.jsp?newsMLId=20111006000636

Researchers look to new data tools to aid urban design

Urban Network Analysis toolbox - aims to gain more rigorous insight into how a city’s shape - its configuration of streets and buildings - affects how it is used, and to marshal massive amounts...

Living in disadvantaged neighbourhoods damages educational attainment in the young

A study by researchers at the University of Michigan and the University of Wisconsin uses data from the ISR Panel Study of Income Dynamics to follow 2,093 children...

Street trees and impact on particulates - London Study

Urban trees of the Greater London Authority (GLA) area remove somewhere between 850 and 2000 tonnes of particulate pollution (PM10) from the air every year. This work is part of the wider EU BRIDGE (...

Air pollution - especially PAHs from Traffic - associated with up to 30 percent increase in risk of premature birth

University of California, looked at 100,000 births occuring within 5 miles of air quality monitoring stations. Traffic-related air pollution, especially polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH), is...

World's earliest recognised "temple" may have actually been a house

The buildings at Göbekli, a hilltop just outside of the Turkish city of Urfa, were found in 1995 by Klaus Schmidt of the German Archaeological Institute and colleagues from the ?anl?urfa Museum in...

Research on workplace sabotage - implications for social disorder and riots

Research at the University of British Columbia on workplace sabotage..... people experiencing feelings of envy were significantly more likely to report committing sabotage when experiencing weak...