NUDA

NUDA is a non-profit organisation which aims to gather qualified urban designers from the Nordic countries as members for the purpose of stronger promoting urban design as a necessity within city planning.

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- - Håkon Iversen

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Nuda articles

Frontpage: URBAN DESIGN PROCESS 2012

Frontpage: Merry Christmas & Happy New Year

Frontpage: NUDA STUDENT SUMMIT 2012

Projects: ...THIS SUMMER SCHOOL

Check out: URBAN DESIGN AWARDS

Frontpage: NUDA STUDENT SUMMIT 2012

Check out: HÅLLBAR STAD

Check out: CULBURB, Shaping Cities - Prague

Frontpage: NUDA STUDENT SUMMIT 2012

Projects: ...THIS CONFERENCE

Check out: Innovation and Creativity of Women

Projects: ...THIS ONLINE MAGAZINE

Projects: ...THIS LIGHT CONFERENCE

Check out: Sandefjord Byforum Ressurs

Projects: ... INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP

Projects: ... THIS OUT

Projects: ... THIS PROJECT

Check out: LEARNING FROM BERGEN

Projects: ... THIS STUDENT PROJECT

Projects: ... THIS PROJECT

Projects: ... CYMBIOCITY

Check out: MISTRA URBAN FUTURES

Projects: ... THIS COMPETITION

News: IISD

Check out: SUSTAINABLE CITIES STOCKHOLM

Projects: ...THIS CAMPAIGN

News: Bluespace: a typological matrix for port cities

Projects: ... THE IFME 2012 IN HELSINKI

News: A THEORY ABOUT THE CITY AS OBJECT

Projects: ...THIS AWARD POSSIBILITY

News: WHAT IS PLACEMAKING?

Projects: ...TRAINING WITH GEHL

Projects: ...THIS MASTERS STUDY

Projects: ...THIS COMPETITION

News: THE UPSIDE OF A DOWN ECONOMY

News: WFS2010 SUMMARY REPORT

Projects: ...THE WINNERS

News: America's Health Threat: Poor Urban Design

Projects: ... THIS URBAN DESIGN AWARD

Projects: ...THIS PROJECT

Projects: ...THIS COMPETITION INVITE

News: ENVIRONMENTAL DESIGN FOR CRIME REDUCTION

Projects: ...THIS AUTHOR

Check out: Changes for the future of NUDA

Frontpage: URBAN DESIGN STUDENTS - LOOK HERE!

Check out: Moa Sundberg, Chairman of NUDA Student Board

Projects: ...THIS CONFERENCE

Projects: ...THIS INITIATIVE

Projects: ...THIS CONFERENCE

Frontpage: NEW YEAR 2012

Frontpage: MERRY CHRISTMAS & A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2011

Frontpage: COMPETITION ANNOUNCEMENT

Frontpage: Competition Announcement 7th December

Projects: Submission closed 15th October

Projects: NUDA on Facebook

Projects: Density, What´s to learn about that.

Check out: LED in Space

Check out: PLDC Conference, Madrid

Frontpage: URBAN LIGHT SUMMIT 2011

Check out: CREATIVE DESIGN WORKSHOP

Frontpage: NORDIC URBAN LIGHT DESIGN COMPETITION 2011

Frontpage: NORDIC URBAN LIGHT DESIGN COMPETITION

Frontpage: Liveable Cities Tour 2011

News: PHILIPS GOES INTO PARTNERSHIP WITH NUDA

News: NUDA redefines itself

Projects: NUDA SPONSOR

Frontpage: REGIONAL CONFERENCE

Check out: CONFERENCE 1st April, Bergen

News: PLACEMAKING NEWS

Frontpage: ARKITEKTUR/BY&LYS

Frontpage: NEW YEAR - NEW CONFERENCES!

Frontpage: MERRY CHRISTMAS!!

News: NUDA LOOKING FORWARD

Check out: DESIGNS FOR OUR FUTURE

Check out: A PLACE FOR CREATIVITY

Check out: 3rd Nordic Passive House Conference

Projects: Hong Kong Waterfront

Projects: Granville Island

Frontpage: WFS2010 SUMMARY REPORT

News: Cars and bikes can coexist in vibrant cities

Projects: LÉVA Urban Design AS

News: Tracing the Influence of urban design and the CIAM architects

Check out: Routes, Roads & Landscapes

News: When Urban Design is of national importance!

News: Pass the Urban veggies, please!

News: Submission deadline for the Mayor's Urban Design Awards in Calgary

Check out: 09//DRIVING SUSTAINABILITY

News: Transport renewable energy becoming a Nordic forte

News: NZIA takes bold new stance on urban design reform

Check out: Eco City Conference 2009

Check out: Design to live with future flooding

Check out: Urban Design Group - Annual conference

News: Capacity Check, UK

News: Urban Architect talks the walk in Saskatoon

News: Co-founder and partner in Gehl Architects, Jan Gehl, has received the highest honour from the Danish Arts Foundation, the lifelong grant

News: Big screens in public spaces

Check out: NUDA SUMMER SHCOOL SANDEFJORD 2009

Check out: CITISENSE 2009

Frontpage: Urban branding

News: NUDA SUMMER SCHOOL 2009

News: ARCHIPRIX

Check out: Get Inspired

Check out: Nuda Summer School

Check out: Annual Conference

Check out: Student Competition

Projects: 3RW

Projects: Gehl Architects

Projects: PROJECTS // Feleti Design Consultants

Projects: Gehl Architects

Projects: David Lock Associates

Frontpage: Welcome to NUDA

THE UPSIDE OF A DOWN ECONOMY
28. January 2012

The stumbling global economy, vulnerable energy supply, and loss of confidence in far-flung markets are being balanced by a surge of interest in things local: production of local food, promotion of local businesses, preservation of local character, improvement of public spaces, and perhaps most important, the rediscovery of meaningful ways to belong to a community.

THE UPSIDE OF A DOWN ECONOMY

By Fred Kent

The article provides an insightful and interesting perspective on how cities need to rethink their position in a world of stumbling economy. It is a great resource for further investigating these issues also very much related to placemaking.

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