Dance, dance otherwise we are lost: A reflection on the times of the city from an Urban Design perspective

Smart mobility: The cases of Hong Kong and The Netherlands

The purpose of this paper is to address the need for cross-disciplinary, collaborative international research that supports implementation of a ‘smart mobility’ for sustainable urban transportation. Progress toward a positive, integrated, and sustainable future for urban transportation will require more than technology. According to Susan...

A key and a hero: An essay on the current state of urban design

This issue of Atlantis highlights the ‘old question’ of urban form and the role of Urban Design within it. This is not without reason. In the past decades remarkably negative opinions were voiced on the urban condition and particularly on public space. In the 1990s Michael Sorkin’s well known Variations on a theme park was given the subtitle ...

Ruimtelijke metaforen voorbij: Leren van TNU / Beyond spatial metaphors: learning from The New Urbanism