Frederick RickmannSTREET ART AT A CROSSROADLong gone are the days when street art was synonymous with graffiti and condemned as vandalism. A new group of people who identify themselves as artists has ...
Frederick RickmannDUNDEE AT CROSSROADSSituated on the north bank of the River Tay in Scotland, the city of Dundee has probably one of the most attractive urban locations in the UK. In 2014, UNESC...
Frederick RickmannEGYPT’S NEW PLANS FOR DECENTRALIZATIONBy Nehal El-Sherif Numerous governments have tried to re-arrange Cairo’s urban planning by getting rid of many buildings built illegally, where the ownership...
Frederick RickmannCREATIVE COURTYARDSBerlin is one of the most dynamic of world cities. The core is a high density urban environment. It is formed into city blocks and the streets are choking wi...
Frederick RickmannTHE DEAD END OF CAIRO HOUSINGBy Nehal El-Sherif Cairo is one of the most crowded cities worldwide with an estimated population of 20 million, so there is less and less space to accommoda...
Frederick RickmannWHEN IT RAINS IN CAIROBy Nehal El-Sherif It rarely rains in Cairo. In the last days of November, it rained for less than 30 minutes for the first time after a very hot summer. Whi...
Frederick RickmannBRUTAL CONCRETE AND GREEN TEARenewing our cities can take really many forms. Old buildings can be torn down and some of the more outstanding ones can be rebuilt. Whole areas can be clear...
Frederick RickmannCREATING TOMORROW'S URBAN SPACES THROUGH CULTURE AND ARTRethinking urban spaces has been the focus of UrbanLab - an urban development initiative undertaken by 8 Danish municipalities - during the last 2 years. Hea...
Frederick RickmannWHAT HAVE WE LEARNED FROM OUR ARCHITECTURAL EXPERIMENTS?By Richard Herriott There is commonly a failure among architects and planners to accept that the built environment we live in now is inferior to those of the...
Frederick RickmannURBAN GARDENING SUCCESS IN AARHUS, DENMARKA walk around the newest neighbourhood of Aarhus, the second biggest city of Denmark, offers not only award winning architectural sights like 'The Iceberg', ...
Frederick RickmannBEYOND ART - INNOVATION IN CHINESE ARTA success of considerable value was experienced in Palazzo delle Stelline. The exhibition entitled Beyond Art opened on the 20th of November to larger than e...
Frederick RickmannCULTURAL SUSTAINABILITYThe societies which thrive best are the ones where the strengths of the past are brought together with the growth of the new parts of the city. Urban neighbo...
Frederick RickmannARCHITECTURAL PARADOXThroughout Europe, the 60's and the 70's saw a rapid expansion of residential building. In Scandinavia as in most other countries, some of the best planning ...
Frederick RickmannTHE FAILURE OF CITY PLANNINGThis desert of rubble was photographed in 2014. It’s the place where I grew up, lived with my family, played with the kids in the neighbourhood, went to scho...
