Category: Urban Design
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Understanding Urban Mobility Strategies for Smart Cities
[box type=”shadow” ]Smart City refers to an urban region that is highly advanced in terms of overall infrastructure, sustainable real estate, communications and market viability. It is aimed to improve the quality of life by making efficient use of physical infrastructure through artificial intelligence and data analytics to support a strong and healthy economic, social…
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CYBER SECURITY in a transport revolution
[box type=”shadow” ] The Transport Systems Catapult, in collaboration with Digital Catapult, IBM, Coventry University, and the Institution of Engineering and Technology, has undertaken research on the future of cyber security in intelligent mobility. That research has culminated in the publication of a new ‘Cyber Security and Intelligent Mobility’ report. But what does it mean…
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Shared Mobility for Liveable Cities
[box type=”shadow” ]Can you imagine a city with only 3% of the cars but in which you can still get to where you need to be when you want? It may sound utopian, but recent studies of the International Transport Forum (ITF) show that this is potentially possible[/box] Using real data about how people move…
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Addressing Mobility Challenges in Hill Cities
Endowed with natural beauty and hilly terrain, the state Mizoram shares 404kms long border with Myanmar (Burma) in the East, and 318kms long with Bangladesh in the West making it a strategic location for international trade. The hills are a perfect holiday destination. However, when it comes to urban mobility, the challenges are quite enormous.…
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Redeveloping Bus Ports
Mumbai’s Parin Shah Architects has been appointed to design a transit oriented development (TOD) master plan for four major cities of Gujarat. Architect Parin Shah deciphers the details of TOD which is still a fairly new concept in India, and takes us through his Gujarat projects. Transit oriented design is a new upcoming sustainable approach…
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Ahmedabad Toll Plaza
Archohm design studio, having begun its journey into the domain of architectural practice with a toll plaza projects, has now become an authority on this uncommon typology of the built environment. The latest in line is the Ahmedabad-Vadinagar-Maliya toll plaza. Principal Architect Sourabh Gupta, Director of the firm briefs. In the state of Gujarat, archohm…
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The Bombay Greenway
An innovative proposal of a linear urban park above the railways in Mumbai by Abraham John Architects is the winner of the International Urban Planning & Urban Design Competition-Velo-City 2013, Austria. The Mumbai based design firm principal architects, Alan Abraham & Abraham John used a combination of architectural design and geospatial tools to create a…