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Hong Kong urban design studio exhibit in HK Cultural Center opens Nov. 18, 2011 Nov 13

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Please join us on November 18th, 4.30PM in the Foyer of the HK Cultural Center in Tsim Sha Tsui for the opening of the MIT Hong Kong studio exhibit, as part of the Architecture is Art Festival in HK. It features our spring 2011 MIT urban planning / design studio, where we focused on a grass-roots arts district around the Cattle Depot Artist Village at To Kwa Wan, near the old Kai Tak airport redevelopment site in East Kowloon. The studio report can be seen here.

MIT Press Release on the Urban Network Analysis toolbox Sep 06

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http://web.mit.edu/press/2011/urban-network-analysis.html

Presentation at the Third International Conference on Economic Geography. Jul 08

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On June 29th, Andres presented his research on spatial networks and urban retail location patterns at the Third Global Conference on Economic Geography in Seoul, Korea. The presentation slides can be found here.

New Urban Network Analysis Toolbox for GIS May 09

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In summer 2011 we shall launch a state-of-the-art open-source toolbox for urban network analysis in GIS. As the first of its kind, the toolbox will perform both well-established and more recent types of network analysis on urban street-networks in GIS. The work that has grown out of Andres' PhD allows graph-theory and accessibility indices to be computed for both planar street networks, and for individual buildings located on street networks. The analyses can be weighted by the attributes of network elements. These software tools are aimed at urban designers, architects, planners, and spatial analysts who are interested in studying city form. Stay tuned...

Forum on Sustainable Urbanization for the Next Generation Apr 09

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Andres will be a moderator at the American Planning Association's Forum on Sustainable Urbanization for the Next Generation with a focus on urbanization in China: Saturday, April 9th at the Boston Sheraton.

http://www.planning.org/china/nextgenerationforum.htm

MIT presents Kevin Lynch Award to Randolph T. Hester Apr 08

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Friday, April 8th, 5.30PM, at the MIT MediaLab.

Projections10: "Designing for Growth & Change" is ready! Feb 17

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The 10th edition of the MIT Journal of Planning, Projections10, is ready! The topic of the issue – Designing for Growth & Change – invited both theorists and practitioners of urban design to reflect upon design strategies that enable or allow settlements patterns to adapt, with ease and elegance, to changes in use, and to present and reflect on design strategies that can readily accommodate growth in demand over time.

The list of seven papers that appear in the issue are included at the bottom of this post. Digital versions of the articles can be found at the Journal's website: http://web.mit.edu/dusp/projections/

We plan to host a reception at MIT on Wednesday, February 23rd from 5-6PM in AVT (room 7-431) to launch this issue of the Journal. If you are in the Boston area, please join us!

Presentation at the JCI European Capitals Meeting 2011 Feb 09

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Andres will be speaking about Urbanization and the future of cities in Europe at the JCI European Capitals Meeting in Tallinn, May 12-15, 2001.

http://ecm2011.jci.ee/
http://www.jci.cc/

Presentation at the Third Global Conference on Economic Geography 2011 Jan 28

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June 28-July2, 2011 at COEX in Seoul, Korea

Measuring City Form: Workshop at the Chinese University of Hong Kong Jan 12

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Hong Kong Urban Design Studio under way Jan 06

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Advanced Seminar in City Form Final Review Dec 29

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The 4.242 Advance Seminar in City Form: Measuring City Form final review will take place on Friday Dec. 10th, 1-3PM in 10-485. Guest reviewers Julian Beinart, John de Monchaux and Stanford Anderson.

Kevin Lynch Award nominations Dec 29

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The nominations of the 2011 Kevin Lynch Award for excellence in the design or thinking about the built environment, awarded biannually by the School of Architecture and Planning at MIT, were unveiled on Wednesday, December 15th at MIT by a group of students in the 11.964 Kevin Lynch Award Seminar, taught by Andres Sevtsuk and John de Monchaux. The nominations were:

Jan Gehl
New York City
Malmo Western Harbor
Randy Hester
Teddy Cruz
Local Projects
Jaime Lerner

New website Dec 27

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The website has moved to a new location: www.cityform.net

Presentation at the World Bank in DC Nov 02

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