Density via high-rise structures remains a primary agenda in our era of urban concentration.
It is crucial to understand the societal forces that drive concentration: the communication …

An expanding literature argues that we need to raise our conceptual gaze when we consider
the socio-spatial dynamics of the contemporary city. We need to look aloft to embrace and …

Urban intensity, understood as the potential for endless random and unpredictable
interaction between heterogeneous individuals and activities, has recently been re …

ABSTRACT 21st century cities are objects of extreme complexity. Each city–old or new, from
Latin America to Eastern Asia–has its specific strengths and weaknesses. Similarly, each …

We live in a rapidly urbanizing world: By 2050 almost 70 per cent of the world's population
will live in cities. Around the world, the metropolises densify and within them, the average …

Influential global organisations have come to regard urban density as a recipe for shared
and sustainable prosperity in recent years. By concentrating human, physical and financial …

The functionalism and reductivism behind post war modernist high-rise housing typologies
like the slab block, failed to understand the impact of this highly condensed circulation on …

In the last few decades, new centers have emerged at the edges of traditional cities and pre-
World War II suburbs. As these evolve, do they converge towards the urban forms of …

Densification and urbanization are compelling urban designers, architects and engineers to
reconsider the typical high-rise building. Perhaps it is time to look beyond image and …

Informal urbanism has become a widespread form of urbanisation, particularly in the context
of the global South. While there is an emerging body of knowledge focusing on the …