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.

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Infographic: Young Americans Shift Away From A Car-Driven Culture

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Swedish City Hits an Impressive Target: No Fossil Fuel for Heat

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Kristianstad, Sweden, has pulled off an impressive feat. The city, and the...

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When your project gets mentioned on Streetsblog

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Discussed the manipulation of play with one of my students for their current project. Fairytales rely on an undercurrent of fear and danger….

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“The Greenest Building May Actually Be a Neighborhood
Nate Berg. April 10, 2012

Green building might be little more than a fringe hippie idea if not for certification. The...

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Today, Saskia Sassen spoke at PICNIC in Amsterdam. Check out the video of her great talk, and how she respects the inherent complexity and incompleteness of cities.

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ECO-BRUTALISM and how contemporary architecture (criticism) leads to the deadening of space

The new Cooper Union Building in New York (©Ahmed ElHusseiny). According to...
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“There is a crack in everything. That’s how the light gets in.”

— Leonard Cohen

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Photograph: Courtesy of Jon Rafman

Rv888, Norway, 2010

Artist Jon Rafman’s photo project The Nine Eyes of Google Street View, named after the nine lenses mounted on...

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“A hundred times have I thought New York is a catastrophe and 50 times: It is a beautiful catastrophe.”

— Le Corbusier

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