Urb

Town Planning + Place Management

About Urb

Urban planning firm based in Dublin, Ireland. The focus in on fresh thinking on how to realise the economic potential of places and deliver viable town centres and urban cores; planning that creates and sustains places, streets, and communities.

Posts I like

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thenewurbanist:

Bullitt Center, Seattle

The Bullitt Center — the first urban building of its kind and commonly regarded as ‘the greenest office building in the world’—...

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The too-smart city

The smart city has become a buzzword in urban planning and university engineering departments, and a topic of breathless coverage in science and business...

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humanscaled:

Nouakchott, Mauritania – Steve McCurry

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“It’s very hard to understand simplicity. Simplicity needs a kind of commitment. You have to be sure of yourself. If you’re not, you’ll listen to the complexity-sellers, and the...”

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Leon Krier, Zoning of the Body, c. 2000 (via polis)

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Leon Krier, Hierarchy and Complexity, c. 2000 (via polis)

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odditiesoflife:

Long Term Exposure of Mating Gold Fireflies

Japanese photographer Yuki Karo goes to various places around Maniwa and Okayama Prefectures in Japan and uses...

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massurban:

GOOD: “Vacancy to Vibrancy: How Pop-Ups Invigorated a San Francisco Neighborhood
Despite big names moving into the neighborhood, San Francisco’s...

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irishboyinlondon:

The London High Street Possibilities Primer

Interesting read! Designed to “encourage, inform and inspire” local communities, it showcases some of the...

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“Here is the world. Beautiful and terrible things will happen. Don’t be afraid.”
—Frederick Buechner, from Listening to Your Life

Photo by Eric (_marmota)

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Sites I follow

Sep

Transition in Brixton. Here is a great piece from Al Jazeera about various Transition things underway in Brixton: the Brixton Pound, Brixton Energy and the Edible Bus Stop project. This is re-blogged from Rob Hopkins at Transition Culture

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