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Urban Development of Wolfsburg
The City of Wolfsburg in Germany is a typical example of planned urban development. Four different development stages are illustrated.
http://www.wolfsburg-staedtebau.de/index_e.htm
Proyecto Cities
Collective effort, focusing on some 20 cities located in five continents, to identify the competitive advantages of each, and to present the principal urban innovations that they are developing, especially those that impact on the physical form of the city and the structure of the metropolitan region.
http://www.fundacion-metropoli.org
Auroville Center for Urban Research
Presents workshops, studies, and investigations with practical implementations at the emerging city of Auroville, India.
http://www.auroville.info/ACUR/
Urban Ways
Includes a brief description of a method of providing more vegetation in high-density city centers.
http://www.urban-ways.co.uk/
Arcosanti
An experimental town in the desert of Arizona, built to embody Paolo Soleri's concept of arcology - the fusion of architecture with ecology. Theory, worksops, events, images, visitor information.
http://www.arcosanti.org/
Phalen Corridor Initiative
A public-private partnership redeveloping a rail corridor in Saint Paul, Minnesota's East Side.
http://www.phalencorridor.org/
Limiting Urban Futures
An attack on the future-scenario style of urban planning. In urban futures scenarios, the range of "acceptable" future cities is made visible. The Amsterdam (Netherlands) study TVA is used as an example of how such studies limit urban futures.
http://web.inter.nl.net/users/Paul.Treanor/few.futures.html
Orenco Station
Promotional information about planned community in the Portland, Oregon, area. Named "America's Community of the Year" in 1998 by the National Association of Home Builders, and considered a good example of "new urbanism."
http://www.orencostation.com/home.htm
Waterfront Edinburgh Limited
A partnership between The City of Edinburgh Council and Scottish Enterprise Edinburgh and Lothian working to regenerate 140 hectares of brownfield land in north Edinburgh on the shores of the Firth of Forth.
http://www.waterfront-ed.com/
Baycity Revival Redevelopment Plan
A redevelopment proposal for the waterfront of the City of Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
http://www.hamiltonwaterfront.8m.com/
Ahmanson Ranch
A "new urbanism" design, master planned community for Southern California. Mixes open space with commercial and residential development.
http://www.ahmansonland.com/
Dos Lagos
An introduction to the mixed use planned community in the City of Corona, California. Gives visitors background and up to date information about the progress of the project.
http://www.doslagos.net/
Charlestown at Buildout - Modeling Development and Conservation
Reports and maps from university thesis project to study growth in an area undergoing rapid residential development, and help formulate policies for growth management. Focus is the town of Charlestown in southern Rhode Island, USA.
http://envstudies.brown.edu/thesis/2001/amengual/
International Concept Competition: Northern Osaka
The targeted area is one of the last remaining large-scale downtown district for urban redevelopment in Japan.
http://www.osakacompe.jp
Harmony
A residential and retirement urban design community situated between Charleston and Myrtle Beach SC near historic Georgetown, South Carolina.
http://www.harmonysc.com
The Seaside Institute
Organization researching and advocating for use of traditional community qualities in new developments.
http://www.theseasideinstitute.org/
Disney's Celebration
Essays, links, and photos about the Florida planned community developed by the Walt Disney Corporation.
http://www.sjsu.edu/faculty/wooda/celebration.html
Urban Revitalization Concept
Overview of the Jackson Place Redevelopment Plan in Richmond, Virginia.
http://www.urbandesignconcepts.com/
Virtual Greenbelt
Images, interviews and other materials relating to Greenbelt, Maryland, a New Deal-era planned community in the suburbs of Washington, D.C.
http://www.otal.umd.edu/~vg/
Redfern Waterloo Partnership Project
A plan focusing on issues in the Redfern Waterloo areas of New South Wales, including redevelopment opportunities, community safety, and social programs.
http://www.redfernwaterloo.nsw.gov.au/
Victory City
A modernist utopian design for a city of the future.
http://www.victorycities.com/
Kakigawa - Pools of Meaning
A project by Mirjam Struppek and Arika Adachi based on an entry in the competition "Semiotic Fields and Attractors: the rediscovery of the Kaki River in Nagaoka, Japan."
http://culturebase.org/home/struppek/Kaki_Home.html
Chandigarh
Information about the planned city in India designed by Le Corbusier.
http://chandigarh.nic.in/
Curitiba, Brazil
Information about the city often identified as a model of successful sustainable development.
http://www.curitiba.pr.gov.br/pmc/ingles/
Architekturgestalten.info
Designs by Tim Ahrens and Anne Brecker.
http://www.architekturgestalten.info/
Letchworth Garden City
Guided tour, history, news, and links for the town founded by Ebenezer Howard.
http://www.letchworthgardencity.net/
Levittown: Documents of an Ideal American Suburb
Information, analysis, and photographs of this archetypal postwar American suburb.
http://tigger.uic.edu/~pbhales/Levittown.html
Vermillion, North Carolina
New urbanist community outside of Charlotte, North Carolina. Includes a tour, design principles, news, and sales information.
http://www.vermillion-tnd.com/
Interactionfield - Public Space in the Digital Age
Analysis and categorization of interactive media and public art projects that contribute to the rediscovery and revitalization of urban public spaces.
http://culturebase.org/home/struppek/Homepage/
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