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Urban Thinking: Projects, Journals & Ideas

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Urban thinking examines the complex systems that shape cities, from infrastructure and food production to ecological integration and community living. Designers working in this space consider how built environments can address sustainability, adapt to changing needs, and improve quality of life.

The community explores modular and adaptive city frameworks, green infrastructure integrated into urban fabric, food systems embedded in cities, and approaches to peripheral and nomadic living. Projects range from theoretical city models to practical interventions that reimagine how cities produce resources and interact with natural systems.

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UNI33 works

UNI Editorial8 works

Mateo Mantilla3 works

Chenlu Yang3 works

Prakruthi S Karadagi2 works

ANSHUL2 works

Misak Terzibasiyan2 works

AMIR FEIZINEZHADGHESHLAGHI2 works

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Katarina

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Mother river

Climate change has been present for a long time and affects the environment and the entire living world. The direct consequences of climate change can cause significant problems and that is why this project is considering a climate adaptable system in order to continue food production.

Hùng and 2 others

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We are how we eat

Nowadays, cities are facing food-related problems which come from the separation between food producers and consumers as well as urban areas and countryside. The New Covent Market located in the Nine Elms District in London is a perfect chance to blur the separation and bring a new sustainable lifestyle to the citizens.

Beatrix

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Besahapio - the modul city

The City of Besahpio should become a destination for people from all over the world. Inspired by climatic solutions of traditional cities (transformed by modern material and new means of transport) it will become a lively and sustainable city in a harsh surrounding.

Shaurya

141

(pr)OpenCity

‘(pr)OpenCity’ advocates a collaborative design method for future development: one that allows rapid application with its prototypical nature and an inclusive approach with mediation between the ‘user’ and the ‘urban’. Building upon the concepts of ‘open-sourcing’ in design, this experiment establishes a user-centric design approach to built interiors.

Piet

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Hexagon City

Hexagon City challenges the norm by using materials at hand at the building side, by making optimal use of the land and by applying low-tech solutions to supply the city with durable energy, water, shade and cooling.Although it can be added we do not prefer high-tech solutions for their need of scarce raw materials.

Gandhali

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ECO CITY:CENTER OF POWER

By next century the world population will grow from 7.7 billion in 2019 to 10.8 billion in 2080 and bring in more revelations for its sustenance. World is moving from microprocessors to super computers to wireless technology of drones. With the increase in population we are converting more and more agricultural land into a liveable enclosed space. Social med

KITTITHAT

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Rice Terraces

We combined farming area and space in one area by farming on the rooftop and we can use space in the building for other activities. And we use rice terrace for combining agriculture activities and architecture form and spaces from this rice-terrace architectural charactor,many benefits will be gained and propered to the program.

劉家宏

NomadHouse - Under Construction

In response to this increasingly fast-paced contemporary era with increasingly blurred boundaries between home and work, we have been thinking about what is the most suitable way for digital nomads to live today. Through the design of vehicles as residential units, we hope to create a building with the ever-changing preferences.

Marina and 2 others

City Fields_Wrapped Up

General idea is based on immersion of the landscape principles into an urban context. This act would create new links in both morphological and functional way, becoming an attractive and productive sustainable ecosystem at the same time, combining fields, workshops, hubs public space and markets into one.

Anjali and 3 others

SUPER CP!

Connaught Place imagined as a model CBD creating space for people to have meaningful interactions, whether casual or formal; planned or serendipitous; in liesure or in seriousness. At the core of the very idea of a city, Super CP embodies the historical as well as the futuristic purpose of human interaction, cooperation and innovation.

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UNI Editorial

publishedResultsfew hours ago

New Urban Unit: A Radial City Block Designed to Switch Between Everyday Life and Crisis Mode

A circular plan, a stepped tower and gardens that double as food supply recast the utopian city as a shelter for creativity and survival.

Architecture

Landscape Design

UNI Editorial

publishedResults2 weeks ago

prOpencity: Treating the Dense City as Open-Source Code That Its Citizens Can Edit

A collage-driven urban experiment that swaps the masterplan for a repeatable loop of listening, prototyping and revising with the people on the street.

Urban Design

Architecture

UNI Editorial

publishedResults1 month ago

Urban Retrofit: Turning Mass Housing Facades into Fields of Individual Expression

A modular balcony framework grafted onto Venezuelan public housing lets residents reshape their own domestic edge, unit by unit.

Modular Housing

Urban Renewal

UNI Editorial

publishedBlog5 months ago

Loizou Architects and Associates Replace the Facade with a Living Green Shell in Limassol

A 360-square-meter mixed-use building in a dense Cypriot neighborhood trades its outer wall for a vertical garden of climbing vines and local plants.

Urban Garden

Urban Jungle