Design educators Robert Kirkbride and Anna Slafer discuss activities to use in the classroom to engage students in understanding the built environment.

Mobile Geographies is a project that aims to create a platform for the production and dissemination of geo-tagged urban information – including historical facts, individual experiences, neighbourhood statistics, planning information and other information deemed important by a community of users. The goal is to connect virtual narrative layers to tangible places, providing a ghosted space where stories, histories and statistics reveal patterns of associations or visions of the future.

In 2007, Vladan Nikolic completed The City, a feature documentary that explores the human condition in New York City, through a cross-section of unique overlapping stories of non-native New Yorkers, exiles, immigrants, and refugees.

This spring, Milano and Parsons were challenged to propose a mixed-income residential-commercial environmentally certified development in the Lower Garden District of New Orleans.  Their project took second place, winning $15,000 for Volunteers of America, Greater New Orleans.

Brian McGrath
Digital Modelling for Urban Design is a text book that introduces the powerful technique of digital modelling to a wide audience of students, architects, designers, planners and urban citizens