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Art Espalier: A Planar Planting Technique Integrated with Architectural Surfaces
Is it enough to design a city together with nature by reducing nature only to green spaces allocated at ground level? Does the limited availability…
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Architecture Turkish House: The Spatial Memory of a Civilization That Leaves the Sun to Its Neighbor
While scrolling through X, I came across a sentence by Ali Kaan: “Turks deserve to live not in cramped apartment flats, but in real Turkish…
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Children Public Magnet as a Children’s Playground: Wired Scape
We’ve moved on to another project review piece; this time our focus is not a school building, but a play landscape embedded right in the…
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Children Designing Streets for Kids (the book)
In this article, I want to introduce the book Designing Streets for Kids—a bedside reference I benefited from repeatedly in my PhD thesis—without stopping at…
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Children The Vanishing of Play Between Concrete
We’re wedged between enormous slabs of concrete. Between facades that are tall, glossy, perfectly smooth… Even the sound of children sometimes disappears without an echo—because…
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Bright Ideas Designing for the Majority: Rebuilding a City’s Character
In the world of urban planning and design—especially in the minds of mayors—there is often a recurring illusion:…
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Design Trends Mycelium Composite: A New Sustainable Material in Architecture
Spot: Mycelium composites are a family of materials that doesn’t fit into the easy shortcut of “everything natural is good.” In the right place they…
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Children Reading the City from 95 cm
We often see the city “from above.” From maps, plans, screens… And then from within life itself: from behind the steering wheel, from the middle…
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Bright Ideas Can Children’s Playgrounds Be Used Year-Round? A Climate-Responsive Design Guide
Have you ever noticed how playgrounds in cities are usually lively only in spring or on mild summer days, yet turn into abandoned spaces in…
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Climate Change Fighting the Urban Heat Island: Selecting Light-Colored Aggregates and Surface Materials
When you walk down the street, the ground beneath your feet is the quietest counterpart of the light drifting down from the sky. Sometimes it…
