Neo-Urbanism
COMContemporary urban design approaches that integrate sustainability, community, and adaptive living into city environments.
Productive 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.
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.
Harlem Ustopia: Synthetic Regrowth on the Ruins of Public Housing
A regenerative urban network in East Harlem transforms demolished public housing sites into layered ecosystems of memory, ecology, and modular living.
Newbery Urban Homes by Dieguez Fridman
Newbery Urban Homes blends concrete, light, and greenery to create communal, terrace-filled residences that mirror Buenos Aires’ evolving urban lifestyle.
The Nexus Urban Farm: Closed-Loop Agriculture Woven into City Infrastructure
Hetvi Patel's proposal fuses aquaponics, vertical gardening, and geodesic domes into a self-sustaining urban food ecosystem at Nine Elms.
Neo-Connect: A Layered Urban Vision for Connaught Place's Second Life
A People's Choice winning proposal reimagines Delhi's colonial heart through vertical landmarks, urban forests, and radial public programming.
Urban Tree House by NO ARCHITECTURE: Innovative Matrix Plan and Garden Folly Redefining Manhattan Living
Urban Tree House by NO ARCHITECTURE redefines Manhattan living with flexible spaces, operable walls, timber interiors, and stunning Hudson River views.
Liberty Utopian Network: Modular Spheres That Rethink the Vertical City
A speculative vertical urbanism built from interconnected spherical hubs that grow, adapt, and resist the rigidity of conventional towers.
Longa-polis: Diagnosing the City as a Body Under Duress
A speculative megastructure treats late-stage capitalism as a spatial pathogen, proposing an immune response built from steel, ritual, and confrontation.
Coral Reef for Improving Lifestyle: Micro Housing Modeled on Marine Ecosystems
A modular plug-in housing system draws on coral reef logic to cluster compact dwellings, green corridors, and communal spaces in Dhaka.
