Neo-Urbanism
COMContemporary urban design approaches that integrate sustainability, community, and adaptive living into city environments.
Neo-urbanism examines how cities can be redesigned to support diverse lifestyles, social connection, and ecological balance. This topic covers emerging urban models that challenge conventional zoning and development patterns through innovative spatial and programmatic strategies.
The community explores adaptive housing typologies, mixed-use urban interventions, and culturally responsive public spaces. Work ranges from nomadic living concepts and maker-focused communities to dense social housing, productive urban peripheries, and experiential architecture that activates contemporary city life.
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View all 43 journalsProductive Organism: A Mumbai Thesis That Treats Peripheral Housing as a Tool for Ecological Repair
Amod Nargund's thesis for Marve, Malvani layers mangrove ecology, adaptive housing and water cycles into a habitat that works like a living organism.
LUKKO
LUKKO reimagines informal settlements as vibrant neighborhoods where social interaction, economic opportunity, and everyday life coexist.
The NEON Culture: A Field of Pavilions Built for the 24-Hour City
Smaran Alva spreads galleries, stages, clubs and markets across a varied site, treating light, sound and ramped movement as the real building materials.
NeoSyria: Rebuilding Aleppo Through Memory, Play, and Collective Healing
A five-chapter urban vision for post-war Aleppo that turns ruins into nurseries, debris into civic stages, and voids into spaces of remembrance.